just wanting to know if anyone else knows !?

Question

why is there a rainbow in the sky after it rains not many people know the true reason?

Answer 1

there was no rainbow before the deluge.
pre flood: the earth had a cloud/vapor shroud.
Therein there was no rainbow.
Many say where did all the water for this "flood" come from,
Bible says: the heavens(sky).
Where did it go?
it pressed down the earth, pooled into oceans, and some of it froze into polar caps. the ice age? a myth.
The same effects attributed to ice over millenia could be accomplished by water in decades.
Science will catch up eventually.

Answer 2

A rainbow is an arc showing the colors of the spectrum, violet inside and red outside, which appears when the sun shines through water droplets. It often appears while the sun is shining after a brief thundershower in the late afternoon or on fog layers. The sun, the observer's eye, and the center of the arc must be aligned—the rainbow appears in the part of the sky opposite the sun. The rainbow is an arc of 180° if the sun is at the horizon, and it cannot appear if the sun is high in the sky. It is caused by the refraction and reflection of rays from the sun on a “sheet” of water droplets. The light is refracted as it enters the sphere of the individual water drop, then is reflected from the drop's opposite side, and is again refracted as it leaves the drop and passes to the observer's eye. When conditions are suitable, a double rainbow may be seen; a larger, paler, secondary rainbow with colors reversed (red inside) outside the primary arc is caused by two refractions and two reflections of the ray while it is inside a drop. The “rainbows” of mist, lawn spray, and spray from a waterfall are similarly caused. The lunary rainbow, seen much less often, is usually observable soon after dark following a brief summer storm or shower when the moon is nearly full. Aristotle was first to devote serious attention to the rainbow, but his mistaken explanation of it misled thinkers for centuries. Descartes in the 17th cent. also attempted to account for the phenomenon but the correct explanation of it could not be furnished until the physics of light and its reflection and refraction were understood and the spectrum explained. In religion and art the rainbow symbolizes God's promise of mercy to mankind after the Deluge (Gen. 9.13). The Greeks and Romans called the rainbow the sign of Iris, messenger of the gods. The Inca and other Native Americans regarded the rainbow as a gift from the sun-god. There are fairy tales of searches for the pot of gold at the foot of the rainbow.




Tell the people in New Orleans and the Northeast that there will be no more floods...

Here are some myths about there actually being a flood that covered the entire Earth:
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/flood-myths.html

Answer 3

The water acts as a prism with the light to create a rainbow-effect that we perceive as such do to the small spectrum of light our eyes can actually pick up.

- 16 yo Pagan

P.S.: There was a Goddess who came WAY before the Christian God (figure about 1000 yrs or more) -- I believe a Greek Goddess -- whom Hera had bring a bucket filled with rainbow across the sky and dump out its contents -- making the rainbow effect -- whenever the Gods kept to a promise they made. This Goddess had wings of a bird on her back.

=_= Doesn't anybody read anything anymore besides that Gods forsaken 50-pound bludgen of a book?

Answer 4

The true reason is that the movie people needed a title song for the movie "The Wizard of Oz". Once they came up with the song ("Somewhere Over The Rainbow"), the movie people had to invent a rainbow to give the song meaning. So they put it in the sky.

Answer 5

Both of the answers already posted are correct - God made a promise not to flood the ENTIRE Earth again and the rainbow is the sign of that promise to this day...also the scientific answer is correct telling us how the rainbows exist using light and water! :)

Answer 6

It is a reminder for God not to flood the earth again.. ( like when it rained for 40 days and 40 nites) and my anscestors went with Noah in he boat... Yours must have drowned or you would know what a dang rainbow is a symbol of...

Answer 7

Come on. You've gotta wash your 4-wheeler in the sun.

You'll see a rainbow when the sun is behind you, and you're spraying a mist. All for the same reason Crater Lake in Oregon is so blue. Learn Physics baby.

Answer 8

12 And God said, "This is the sign of the covenant I am making between me and you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all generations to come:
13 I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth.
14 Whenever I bring clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds,
15 I will remember my covenant between me and you and all living creatures of every kind. Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life.
16 Whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and all living creatures of every kind on the earth."



17 So God said to Noah, "This is the sign of the covenant I have established between me and all life on the earth."

Answer 9

After God flooded the world he made a promise to Moses and all else who were alive (moses's family) that he would never flood the world again and to prove he kept his promise he creates a rainbow

Answer 10

god promised that every time it rained he would put a rainbow in the sky...its a covenant to humans that he will never flood the earth again.....am i right or am i right?.....if i am i think i should get voted best answer!!! :)