Could earth be the center of the universe?

If all motion is relative, then the geocentric model works, too. The math to calculation positions of planets is just more complicated I suppose. (Calculating such things is not my thing.)

Well the word universe is not in the Bible it's man made

Yup it's just heaven and earth that's it. Sun moon and stars in the firmament. That's it. The moon is it's own light. The sun it's own light. God is at the top of the firmament looking down on us. The sky is blue because the waters above.

So, if no one can figure out the edge, on what basis can you definitively say that the earth is not in the center of the expanding universe?

The earth was the first celestial body in all of the vast expanse that we see today and refer to as space.

Have you ever read any of Frank Peretti's work? His "Piercing the Darkness" and "This Present Darkness" explain pretty much how I see the reality of our existence and all that surrounds us

Right. I'm not making any claim that it is, but it is possible that the earth was, as the Scriptures describe, the first physical form in all of the black inkiness that is the space surrounding us.

Then He turns His attention to creating the heavens, which His word tells us declare His glory.

cosmic background radiation, largely.

@tedincarolina all i can say at this point is God bless you and keep you.
I understand that you love God. So do i.
We are all unique and that's what makes our love for God beautiful like rainbow.

On the contrary....
WMAP and Planck satellite data both agree:
CMB readings indicate galacto-centricity.
Redshift data says the same thing.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn23301-planck-shows-almost-perfect-cosmos-plus-axis-of-evil/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/starts...k-satellite-changed-our-view-of-the-universe/

Just because it's possible to work out the necessary math so that when you walk to your kitchen, actually the entire universe moves around you while you stay perfectly still, until your refrigerator presents itself to you and a jar of pickles jumps into your hand, doesn't mean it has any likelihood of being reality.

the math for orbits of other planets if the earth is the center of the solar system requires them doing infinite epicycles ((loop-de-loops)) and changing direction unpredictably, as though there are no physical laws at all.
but with the sun as the center, a few simple and elegant equations describe all motion with incredible precision.

kinda an Occam's razor argument, sure - but the worldview that allows you to actually understand things, act on them and make basic predictions is a lot more worthwhile to actually implement than one in which all is chaos and there is no order or consistency.

Isaac Newton was a devoted Christian. in his view, the existence of these elegant laws of motion and discernable, ubiquitous order in the universe was proof of it having been created by a logical, sentient God - far more proof than may kind being the center of all things, which is honestly just vain humanism.

CMB readings indicate galacto-centricity.
Redshift data says the same thing.

we haven't thrown away the Hubble equation: we adjusted the estimation of the Hubble constant with better empirical data.

this still shows 96.5% uniform expansion of space itself, and near perfect flatness - indicating no center ((i.e. without evidence of any kind of hot, compressed wave front at the 'edge'))

uniform inflation models all predict a little variation from Q fluctuations and initial conditions, and that was seen in the COBE data too. this is just more precise, perhaps confirming some of the resultant superstructure hypothesis that were floating around at least in the 1980's.

if anything the hints of slight directionality would put us as off-center observers.

But is the Sun the center of something? Not really.

You might not like the sound of this.....but Jerusalem may be the
center of the universe. Like....literally.
But no mere mortal could ever say for sure.

we haven't thrown away the Hubble equation: we adjusted the estimation of the Hubble constant with better empirical data.

this still shows 96.5% uniform expansion of space itself, and near perfect flatness - indicating no center ((i.e. without evidence of any kind of hot, compressed wave front at the 'edge'))

uniform inflation models all predict a little variation from Q fluctuations and initial conditions, and that was seen in the COBE data too. this is just more precise, perhaps confirming some of the resultant superstructure hypothesis that were floating around at least in the 1980's.

if anything the hints of slight directionality would put us as off-center observers.

As for orbits....a common misconception.
Helixes. Things arent simply rotating. They are twisting.
Everything is moving in a helical motion.

The thing is.....the later, better higher resolution satellite data
confirmed the older COBE data results.

The redshift data was the kicker.

Frankly, I am quite sceptical about standard model science.
They don't know what a wave is (it isn't), a field is, what magnetism
is, what gravity is, what light is (it sure ain't photon particles).
And they demand thet the "speed of light" is a constant (absurd)
And they think the cosmological constants are constant (they aren't).

geocentric orbit