The fact is, the Moonlight is not from the moon at all, but from the Sun. It is Sunlight. God did not make two great lights in the sky. The Moon is not a light. Never has been. Never will be. Genesis is utter garbage due to this glaring error.
Now don't you feel stupid?
2007-01-22 11:53:10 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
My point is that God apparently made TWO lights. But that is impossible since the Sun is the only light source.
2007-01-22 12:32:12 · update #1
Genesis doesn't call the moon a "source" of light, it just calls it a "great light" and later a "giver of light", which is what it does.
Next time read the verse.
2007-01-22 11:59:40 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I DON'T FEEL STUPID AT ALL!! I was just studying this as a matter of fact...you are right in one thing:
Yes, the moon does reflect the light of the sun...moonlight is sunlight...you got it!
Here's where you're wrong:
Jesus said it first...about 1500 years before any scientist did. Amazing how the Bible is scientifically correct isn't it?
Oh, and btw, you should read Genesis again, a little more carefully. It doesn't say that the moon is a completely different light...just that it's less light than the sun and that it gives light. Never says it's a SOURCE of light.
How do you feel now? Stupid? Don't call us Christians stupid, many of us actually studied things before realizing the truth.
God bless.
2007-01-22 12:08:15 · answer #2 · answered by ac28 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
umm, no all Jesus freaks won't just say it's a miss interpretation, they'll say that Genesis wasn't a scientific accounting of how the Universe was created.
You want a better example of "utter garbage" look at Genesis 1:6-7 "Then God said, 'Let there be a dome in the middle of the waters, to separate one body of water from the other.' And so it happened; God made the dome and it separated the water above the dome from the water below it." See the ancient Jewish understanding was that the top of the sky was a clear dome that kept a great ocean of water suspended in the air, rain came through cracks in the dome.
The point is many Christians, Catholics for example who account to 50% of the 2 billion Christians on earth, understand that Genesis is telling us WHY the universe, the earth, and most importantly humans were made, not specifically how.
Genesis isn't garbage, it just isn't a science book and it wasn't ever ment to be one.
2007-01-22 12:07:24 · answer #3 · answered by Stephen B 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It still lights the night, even though it is a reflexion of the sun. Nobody claims it is the source of light. Just that it gives light. It gives us reflected sunlight. Is there some other way I could explain it more clearly to you?
(By the way have you ever heard a scientist refer to the sunrise? Probably. I don't think you would have claimed he didn't understand the solar system and the earth's rotation! He would just ve referring to the effect on us of the position of the sun: the sun is rising as far as we are concerned. In the same way, as far as we are concerned, the moon is a light that lights the sky at night).
2007-01-22 12:03:49 · answer #4 · answered by Mr Ed 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, the moon is not a primary source of light.
It's very reflective, though. Neat, huh?
But no, I don't consider that to be glaring error (nice pun, by the way).
The error I feel undercuts Genesis is the inclusion of the Noah story. In reality, the flood wasn't a big global flood.
An error of omission in Genesis is that Cain was afraid of other people... the Bible doesn't explain who those other people were, and you'd wonder about that because Genesis had led you to think that the only people around would be Cain, Adam, Eve, and Cain's little kid brothers and sisters.
2007-01-22 12:34:22 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If a light is reflected from another surface, does it not also brighten the room?
Genesis 1:14 says there were many lights in the firmament.
The point is that the surface reflecting the light is still a light source of the light, albeit a secondary one.
2007-01-22 13:23:15 · answer #6 · answered by Bob L 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't ask stupid questions. The Moon was created to reflect and you might be surprised to find that the Sun is a reflection also. Our physical eyes cannot see light but only see what it reflects off of and that is why you don't see light traveling from stars filling up space. If we saw light then we would see the sky is full of light.
2016-05-23 23:10:02 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Where does the Bible say it is a source of light. It just calls it a light. So is it wrong to say a candle is a source of light, because the light does not come from the candle, but from the fire, or a lightbulb?
2007-01-22 12:05:35 · answer #8 · answered by oldguy63 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
"Blessed is He Who made constellations in the skies, and placed therein a Lamp and a Moon giving light;"
Qur'an (25:61)
The Sun = "Lamp" - a source of light.
The Moon = "giving light" - not a source of light
The truth is in the Qur'an...
2007-01-22 12:06:59 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I suppose that's why when I look in a mirror it is just a piece of glass, with no reflection, because the reflection would have to be created by something.
2007-01-22 11:59:22 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋