After Newton came Einstein. Rigid fundamentalists don't like the word relativity. We are still getting used to Einstein's thinking. Newton's rigid laws are true to a certain context, but reality is much larger than that one context. Truth is much more multifaceted than we had originally thought.
Relativity theory says there can be more than one right answer for the speed and mass of an object.
The answer depends, in part, on the inertial state of the observer. It sounds like it is taking civilization many years to get used to this more flexible view of reality. Basically scriptures are just words on paper. Religion is dead with out a living spirit alive in today's world. Even though we all believe somewhat differently, I believe the spirit works in people's lives.