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God Created The Sun, Moon And Stars On The Earth

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“In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth… God made the two great lights, the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He made the stars also.” (Genesis 1;1, 16). God created the Heavens and the earth in a six day period a few thousand years ago. He spoke all things into existence out of nothing. Included in His creation isn’t only the earth, but all matter in space including stars that are believed to be billions of light years away. For a skeptic and the curious Christian, a question will arise. If God created the universe six to ten thousand years ago, how do we see stars that are billions of light years away? It would be foolish and lazy to leave the matter to God’s mystery and while the answers cannot be known with certainty, we have much to learn when we examine who God is. God created the sun, moon and stars on the fourth day. The stars are primarily useful in the Old Testament to remind Israel of God’s promise to Abraham that they would one day “multiply (Abraham’s) descendants as the stars of Heaven.” Their most common use from the period of Abraham to the exile is threefold: First, to remind Abraham and his sons how numerous his descendants will be, Second, to remind the nation of Israel how numerous they are, and third, to remind the remnant how numerous they once were. When the Bible references the stars, it is mostly for this purpose. During the Old Testament period, people may not have known that stars were

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