As everyone knows, we've found hundreds of planets outside our solar system, we recently found one this year as well. So in the bible, it says, god only created earth, heavens and stars. Where does it create extra-solar planets?
Some of these found planets are actually older than earth!!!
2007-05-20 16:34:26 · 17 answers · asked by Bad God 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
i think creating heavens and earth covers it myself ...
2007-05-20 16:39:37 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Genesis 2:1 says that "thus the heavens and the earth were finished and ALL THE HOST of them. The phrase "the heavens" literally refers to both the sky visible within our atmosphere, and space itself. This shows that God wasn't just limited in creating the earth, the sun, the moon and the stars like it says in Genesis 1:14. Genesis 1:14-17 are describing the creation of the earth and our galaxy itself. Genesis 2:1 further describes that God created everything in space. And John 1:3 says, "All things were made by Him, and without Him was not anything made that was made." Or, literally translated, "All things were created by Him, and without Him nothing was created that exists!" It literally does say this.
As to whether or not these planets are older than the earth, I do highly respect science. But even scientists admit that their work on dating the age of things including space and this planet and the people and creatures on it is flawed. I have no problem with entertaining the possibility that these scientists have the beginnings of understanding the tools for dating things, but that they will find out one day that their math was very wrong. And even if I find out I was wrong, and they were in fact right, that is okay. Because is still doesn't preclude God as the Creator for everything. Because on a logical level, you can't start with nothingness and have things come into being. There has to be some kind of catalyst. I believe with all my heart, that Catalyst HAS to be God. You and I can't create a bicycle out of nothingness. By the same token, the universe cannot create itself out of nothingness. Also, we can not create ourselves. It takes a mother and a father... on a smaller scale, our creators. It's just a mathematical, logical truth: we simply can't get something from nothing, and that is why I believe in a Creator.
2007-05-21 00:01:14 · answer #2 · answered by godcr8dyou 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God said He created the HeavenS and the Earth. That covers the extra solar planets. Every star was made special by God.
2007-05-20 23:39:38 · answer #3 · answered by karen_03625 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The bible is Earth-o-centric. ie. it focuses largely on earth. the bible does not make mention of extra solar planets because such information, in the biblical context, is irrelevant. the bible focuses on God's relationship with mankind, and since man belongs to Earth, there is no need to focus on extra-solar planets, even though some of these planets are actually older than earth. Earth is where man is, and this is the setting for God's influence on mankind. this is also why the bible depicts such a simplistic view of the universe.........because it is not meant to focus on all these minor physical details such as extra regional planets, but rather on the relationship between God and man, which is on earth.
~PhoeniX~
2007-05-20 23:45:06 · answer #4 · answered by Spurious 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Genesis...God created the heavens and the earth. The heavens are the different planets, moons, stars, etc.
2007-05-20 23:39:29 · answer #5 · answered by clbinmo 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The answer is in your own question. "Heavens" is the key term. The book mentions the sun, moon and heavens. Heavens is all the junk in the sky. I have science books that do not mention every single thing in science and every single thing in the universe. That does not make the science book bad, nor does it make science bad. It simply means the book was written to accomplish a purpose, not every purpose. The Bible is written to accomplish a purpose, not Every purpose.
2007-05-23 15:26:38 · answer #6 · answered by Art Newbie Bill 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
David wrote in Psalm 8:3, "When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have ordained." When we see the vast number of stars, then read that scientists have discovered thousands upon thousands of galaxies, each containing millions of stars, we should be stand in reverent fear of a God so immense to make all that and call it the work of His fingers! Furthermore, Psalm 147:4 tells us that "He counts the number of the stars and calls them all by name.
"Indeed My hand has laid the foundation of the earth, And My right hand has stretched out the heavens; When I call to them, They stand up together." Isaiah 48:13
2007-05-20 23:43:59 · answer #7 · answered by Freedom 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The ancient people who wrote the Bible didn't have the knowledge to understand how other planets could exist (they thought that the Earth was flat). "God did not create man but, ancient man who created God".---Carl Sagan
2007-05-20 23:41:47 · answer #8 · answered by liberty11235 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the bible fails to mention the dinosaurs, too..
everything in the bible must be taken with a large grain of salt. the spiritual messages can be wonderful, but if taken at face value, one will be left with a larger amount of questions than security. this is why christianity pushes the idea of "just have faith!" so much, because it often cannot successfully answer questions such as these from a religious context.
2007-05-20 23:40:04 · answer #9 · answered by ah 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Same place he creates the rest of our solar system - the heavens.
2007-05-20 23:39:31 · answer #10 · answered by awayforabit 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They're part of the "heavens", created at the very beginning of the Bible.
2007-05-20 23:40:20 · answer #11 · answered by Maggie M 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋