But yeah that's a good example. And really you can easily take those scriptures and rather than interpret them literally as saying the earth doesn't move, and reinterpret them as poetic license.. not meant to be literal, but meant to communicate a bigger truth about God's immovability or some such. Same thing with scriptures that talk about a flat earth.
If I write something about my wife's eyes being brighter than the sun, it's not meant to be literal.
There's other stuff that doesn't get the same out though.. calling a bat a bird, or a global flood, etc.. But still Christianity has changed and adapted to accept new knowledge.
I think Mormonism would survive accepting evidence that the natives aren't descended from Israel.
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