Empiricists spend more time talking about their notion of God than anyone else only to reject their own conception. It hardly matters that people understand God at their own level in dealing with issues much greater than themselves and there is nothing to argue against there however the early Christians often dealt with the experience of God where the difference between Spirit and Inspiration is negligible -

"God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth." Johannine letter


There are no clear boundaries between the Judaeo-Christian writings and those writings outside the collection of books known as the Bible so that often common sense accompanies an approach to those writings. It doesn't help that denominational Christianity has the Spiritual content locked up in moral dictates but this is more historical accidents than anything else and often the Christian writers did take the time out to comment astronomy and terrestrial sciences and Christianity -

"Usually, even a non-Christian knows something about the earth, the heavens, and the other elements of this world, about the motion and orbit of the stars and even their size and relative positions, about the predictable eclipses of the sun and moon, the cycles of the years and the seasons, about the kinds of animals, shrubs, stones, and so forth, and this knowledge he holds to as being certain from reason and experience. Now, it is a disgraceful and dangerous thing for an infidel to hear a Christian, presumably giving the meaning of Holy Scripture, talking nonsense on these topics; and we should take all means to prevent such an embarrassing situation, in which people show up vast ignorance in a Christian and laugh it to scorn. The shame is not so much that an ignorant individual is derided, but that people outside the household of faith think our sacred writers held such opinions, and, to the great loss of those for whose salvation we toil, the writers of our Scripture are criticized and rejected as unlearned men." Augustine

The crude and brute personality, if it can be called that, try to make themselves feel better by projecting an idea of God only to reject it as intellectually inferior but miss the point in the process. In truth a belief is not the same thing as a conviction insofar as the former comes from an internal resonance that lights up reason whereas the latter is purely ideologically driven in the mind.

Augustine was familiar with the predictive side of astronomy as well as circumpolar motion but had enough sense to classify it appropriately as being beyond his remit while giving it the stamp of importance -

"Some of the brethren raise a question concerning the motion of
heaven, whether it is fixed or moved. If it is moved, they say, how is
it a firmament? If it stands still, how do these stars which are held
fixed in it go round from east to west, the more northerly performing
shorter circuits near the pole, so that the heaven (if there is
another pole unknown to us) may seem to revolve upon some axis, or (if
there is no other pole) may be thought to move as a discus? To these
men I reply that it would require many subtle and profound reasonings
to find out which of these things is actually so; but to undertake
this and discuss it is consistent neither with my leisure nor with the
duty of those whom I desire to instruct in essential matters more
directly conducing to their salvation and to the benefit of the holy
Church." Augustine

Those in the celestial sphere community today are even more homocentric than the people in Augustine's era and they are so dominant in the education system that it is presenting huge difficulties for a society that no longer uses its interpretative faculties which in turn is producing an effect with a rise in autistic conditions that can be easily undone with effort.