How many planets are mentioned in the Bible?

Question

If the Bible was devinely inspired, shouldn't it mention all 9 planets? (oops, I mean 8 planets)

I checked... only three are mentioned in the old testiment.

Venus and Saturn are named.... and of course Earth

Answer 1

Are you nuts? Or have you spent too much time listening to Bubba preachers?

The Bible was never a history of the world. It was and is simply a history of the Jewish bloodline from Adam to Jesus.

Proof: All the names in the Bible are Jewish.

Why would planets be mentioned to simply give the History of the Jews?

Are planets ever mentioned in your family genealogy? Of course not, why would you expect them mentioned in the Jewish genealogy?

Star gazing doesn't count.

"Duh, Uncle Charlie had a telescope and he used to look at planets, like Saturn, and Venice, and Mars."

Added: Heavens smevins; In the original ancient Hebrew language "Heavens" meant where birds fly.

I am a Christian; I follow the messages of Jesus; he sent the Holy Spirit to witness to the validity of Jesus' words: not Paul's words and not Bubba Preachers interpreting the Bible to build and grow their empires.

Answer 2

The Bible mentions the Pleiades (sp?), Castor and Pollux, Orion, the Moon, the Sun, Venus, Mars and Saturn, among others, all through it. However, you are correct that the Bible was written to be understood from our perspective. It was a message to the people of earth, not others. @oldguy, the ancients knew the difference between planets and stars. They had mapped out the courses of the visible planets long ago (all up to Saturn).

Answer 3

Why would the bible talk about planets? the bible is the history of the Jewish people in the old testatment and the early history of the Christians during Jesus's time on earth and the first few years after the Apostles established the Church in Greece and Rome. I think they were a tad busy doing things on earth to worry about staring at the night sky.

Answer 4

The Bible isn't a scientific resource book. It says that God created the Heavens and the earth and it says that He created the "worlds". One interesting astronomical tidbit is found in the book of Job however.

God asked Job “Can you bind the cluster of the Pleiades, Or loose the belt of Orion?” (Job 38:31). In the last century astrophysicists have discovered that the stars of Pleiades move in unison with each other, and are thus gravitationally bound.

Answer 5

Dude, quit assuming silly stuff and then deciding that not fitting into your tiny box proves someone else is wrong.
The word "planet" actually is Greek for "wanderer." The Greeks noticed these "stars" moved (wandered) around the heavens. The individual planets aren't named because that isn't important. We aren't given the planets, nor even our moon. Humans were given earth, which Adam very quickly forfeited to Satan. Jesus bought it back and owns it now. He WILL evict the non-paying tenants, by the way.
And to answer your question, Jude 1:13 refers to the "ungodly men" with some pointed descriptions, and this is one of them: "Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever." The irony is that these sinners will get what they worshiped. As they worshiped the planets wandering the inhospitable darkness of space, so they will receive the inhospitable darkness of hell. They get what they asked for, really.
And, dear question asker, what are you asking for?

Answer 6

It says there are more stars than we could count which has been true from then until now. A specific number would seem wrong to every society as technology would change our estimation and we would be perpetually stuck in a loop of thinking the Bible is wrong.

Answer 7

Well God told Adam to name the animals not the planets LOL. He showed Abraham the stars, stars are planets to, because all the stars of light could also be planets and so they are mentioned in the Bible because Abraham saw them all LOL. Your so silly. Its not mentioned because according to myth, the Nephilim taught us war and numerology, cosmetics for women and astrology.

Answer 8

Arrrr

Well you should know that you can't tell people about something they can't see for else they would ridicule the.

Think about it, you are only going to believe what you can see right? How many planets can you see with the naked eye?

Answer 9

Job.38:1, [ The LORD said ] 30 The waters are hid as with a stone, and the face of the deep is frozen. 38:31 Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion? 38:32 Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons? 38:33 Knowest thou the ordinances of heaven? canst thou set the dominion thereof in the earth? 38:34 Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover thee? 38:35 Canst thou send lightnings, that they may go and say unto thee, Here we are?


http://www.astro.uiuc.edu/~kaler/sow/orion-p.html



http://www.mazzaroth.com/Introduction/MazzarothDefined.htm

Answer 10

Ok NEWSFLASH!! there are WAY more than nine planets ..... Why would God want to waste time telling us about all of them..... he would have to inspire man to write a whole other book..... and that wouldn't make much sense.. would it.