“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
Another way to support the Big Bang Theory is to look at the stars. According to the Big Bang Theory the universe is forever changing and expanding and looking up at the stars just proves this. If you look up at the stars we only see the stars that their light has reached us meaning these stars are only new, so if we don’t so some stars the light hasn’t reached us yet. As we know light travels in light years which takes well years, so if we can’t see their light it hasn’t reached us so it is light years away. This shows us that it has grown and changed supporting the
Scientists have found that the Earth was formed about 4.6 billion years ago by collisions in the giant disc-shaped cloud of material that also formed the Sun. As gravity slowly gathered this gas and dust together into clumps, it became asteroids and small early planets called planetesimals. These objects collided repeatedly and gradually got bigger, building up the planets in the Solar System. Although scientists are very close to answering the question, they still continue to search for the exact answer to how the Earth was created. With all the evidence presented, it is hard to refute from scientific theories. This becomes cumbersome to many religions because in their eyes God has always been the creator of the Earth.
Throughout generations stories were passed down about how things could've been created like the earth, mankind, and even the stars. Every culture and religion has their own myth of how things came to be. The Hindu’s, Native American’s, and the Chinese all made up stories about how the stars were created.
In the beginning God created the heavens with the Earth along with man in his own image. For over 1500 years, Christian followers were heavy believers of the bible, seeing it as the primary source for knowledge. Then came the scientific revolution in the 1500s, a movement which challenged the Christian view of the universe. It was a time when people were looking for a new way of thinking about the world. Since then and to this day, there has been several instances in which scientific inquiry and religious belief have collided in their ideologies.
In Genesis God created the earth in six days and declared rest for the seventh day. On day one, God created light to part it from darkness, calling the light “day” and the darkness “night”. On day two, he created the sky, allowing him to create land and sea on day three. God created the sun, moon, and the stars to give light to the earth and to govern and separate the day and the night" on the fourth diurnal (Fairchild, 2013). These elements would also serve to establish days, season, and years. On the fifth day God created all the organisms on the land, sea, and sky and made sure they would flourish.
“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. …the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the spirit of God was hovering over the waters.” In the Christian faith the world was created by God in the sequence of seven days. Throughout those days he made light and darkness, water and sky; he made the animals of the water and the animals
As a boy, Ishmael has heard stories and proverbs about the moon. An old man in his village would say, “We must strive to be like the moon.” (Pg. 16) Ishmael’s grandmother explained that no one complained when the moon was present. Children would play and
“He saw the moon low in the sky now. The moon there and the light of the moon caused by what? By the sun of course. And what lights the sun? Its own fire. And the sun goes on, day after day, burning and burning. The sun and time. The sun and time and burning. Burning. The river bobbled him along gently. Burning. The sun and every clock on the earth. It all came together and became a single thing in his mind. After a long time of floating
"How the Almighty had made the earth a gleaming plain girdled with waters; in His splendor He set the sun and the moon to be earth's lamplight, lanterns for men and filled the broad lap of the world with branches and leaves; and quickened life in every other thing that moved."(Line 92)
The first thing he created was light, but of course there was still darkness, but the light and the dark were separated. Light was called “day”, and dark was called “night”. He made the sun to rule the daytime. For the night He made the moon and the stars.
Neither here nor in verses 14-18 is an original creative act implied. A different word is used. The sense is, made to appear; made visible. The sun and moon were created "in the beginning." The "light" of course came from the sun, but the vapor diffused the light. Later the sun appeared in an unclouded sky. Genesis 1:5 - And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day. The word "day" is used in Scripture in three ways:
Astronomy was very influential in religion. Star worship and ceremonies have common ground when it comes to astronomy and religion.
Millions of Centuries ago there was only day. There was no night, only hot, sunny, bright day. And the god in charge of that was Apollo. In the beginning God’s ruled over the earth and each of them had a special ability and Apollo’s happened to be the sun. But little did he know his never ending days would soon come to an end.
There are many topics that science and religion have opposing views on and continue to debate. One of these subjects that has received a great deal of attention and has placed an enormous wedge between the two realms is the varying opinions concerning the creation of the universe. For nearly a century, scientists have explained this phenomenon with the Big Bang theory, whereas spiritual thinkers have long placed their faith in the Genesis creation account. Both submit valid arguments, however, it is ultimately up to each individual to decide which testimony to accept as truth and to consider if it is possible that both opinions could co-exist.
On the fourth day god creates the lights in the sky of heavens to divide the day from the night', in simple terms this means the sun, moon and the stars.