Also did you know that God at the throne has a radiant rainbow over his head.
2007-01-22 11:34:03 · 13 answers · asked by inteleyes 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
After the first time time it ever rained would be when the first rainbow appeared. Biblically, that's the flood.
Revelation 10:1
And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire:
2007-01-22 11:36:05 · answer #1 · answered by Cyber 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
after the flood!
gen 9: 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."
2007-01-22 19:40:20 · answer #2 · answered by revdauphinee 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Oh yeah? The Greeks believed the rainbow was the Goddess Athena's bow. That belief predates your Bible's myths, so I'd go with that answer.
Seriously, though, it's talking the Bible literally that really makes people turn away from Christianity. Is that your goal? To turn us away?
You and the other proseltyzers on Y Q&A need to get together and come up with a more respectful, intelligent, logical way to get people to convert, because all you're doing now is making people LESS likely to want to be Christians!
2007-01-22 19:45:36 · answer #3 · answered by Huddy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
After the flood stopped. The rainbow is symbolic of Gods promise to Noah never to flood the earth again.
2007-01-22 19:41:06 · answer #4 · answered by Kathryn R 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The first rainbow was after the first rain that caused the flood. Gen.8:21,22; 9:12-15;
2007-01-22 19:38:31 · answer #5 · answered by jeni 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
After the flood. The rainbow is God's sign, His promise that He'll never flood the entire earth again.
2007-01-22 19:37:11 · answer #6 · answered by ac28 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The first to appear in the sky was after the Flood.
Their may have been spectrums of light seen before, but not in the sky.
2007-01-22 19:37:28 · answer #7 · answered by Holly Marie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Rainbows are caused by dispersion (frequency dependence on index of refraction). Think of a prism.
2007-01-22 19:39:12 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Generous old god, as ever. The mindless slaughter of 99.99% of the earth's population, including all babies and children, to say nothing of the animals, and to make up for it he gives us the optical effects of white sunlight defracted through the prism of rainwater. Whoopie-doo.
2007-01-22 19:39:02 · answer #9 · answered by Bad Liberal 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
yeah, after the great flood. it is a reminder of His promise to never destroy the world with water again
2007-01-22 19:38:02 · answer #10 · answered by deangowarrior 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋