look at genesis 26:4: "And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven"
according to this christian site - http://www.christiananswers.net/q-eden/s... - , there are about 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 stars. Are there that many humans yet? If not, the prophecy has yet to come true.
2007-07-22 15:38:08 · 28 answers · asked by me 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
1 sextillion? No, there are about 6 billion humans and the earth is not nearly big enough to hold that many humans (1 sextillion)
2007-07-22 15:46:39 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that perhaps you're misinterpretting the passage there as prophetic, rather than metaphorical as it ought to be.
Hyperbole and exageration occur frequently in the Bible. To take these sorts of passages litereally would be well quite frankly rather rediculous. The intended meaning of the verse was that Abraham's decendents would be a very great number, and so they are as they make up the entire middle eastern population of the earth, but not that there would littereally be as many as there are stars in the sky.
On a second note, even if the passage were to be taken literally, it's important to note that the telescope had not yet been invented so there were really only three-hundred some stars visible in the night sky, making the prophecy, if indeed that's what it happened to be, more than fulfilled long, long ago.
God Bless,
Chake-Ri Shcos
2007-07-22 23:01:06 · answer #2 · answered by Chake-Ri Shcos 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hey you , you look like me, or rather hey me you look like me, any way,
where are you getting all of this info from, that prophecy was for the descendants of Abraham, meaning also to Abraham that a person dont know the exact number of the stars but are many,the prophecy was to show the same with his offsprings or descendants no man could number them but there would be many. It was to be taken as a Blessing from the Most High himself, said nothing of an end of the world, thats something some one added in & shouldnt have, no one knows when the end will come but God. Not even his Son but based on world events according to his Son Jesus
it is CLOSE.
2007-07-22 22:56:04 · answer #3 · answered by ray_clrk 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
In this case we must remember that Genesis is completely allegorical. None of it is designed to be taken literally. The phrase "I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven" means that god will make the loins of to whomever he is speaking exceptionally fertile. The semites (people who inhabited what is now Israel and the Middle East) didn't have the understanding of mathematics to even come up with such a number. Basically, the expression as many _____as stars in the sky means alot of ____.
Also, christian apologists (people who defend the faith with words, books, etc.) believe some ridiculous things. Please don't fall into the fundamentalist christian trap of believing stupid things.
2007-07-22 22:49:09 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Earth has a surface area of 196,940,400 square miles, slightly less than a perfect ball with a diameter of 7913.5 miles (which is the mean diameter of the Earth).
The surface area of the seven continents and all the islands of the world is about 57 million miles, while the total area of the six habitable continents (Antarctica excluded) is around 52 million square miles.
If you divide 52 million square miles by 10 x 10^21 people, that would be 5.2 x 10^-15 square miles per person. That's 14.5 x 10^-8 square feet per person.
That would be about 5 x 10^-5 square inches per person.
That would be about 47,900 people per square inch.
2007-07-22 23:01:10 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Who says the world will end? The bible says the elements will melt with fervent heat but that is not the end. He is going to make a new heaven and a new earth where righteousness will reign. Then the decendents will be like the stars of heaven and the sand on the beach.
2007-07-22 22:43:27 · answer #6 · answered by George 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
or it could mean the visible stars, in which case the prophecy was valid when there were about 6000 people alive. or it could mean infinite stars, since the universe could be infinite in space - we can't see those stars, but then we can't see the vast majority of stars in the visible universe either. or it could be anywhere in between 6000 and infinite. that's the trouble with 'prophecies' like that - firstly it's not clear it's supposed to be anything more than a colorful turn of phrase, and it's so vague that when anything vaguely interesting happens someone could say that the prophecy was fulfilled.
2007-07-22 22:46:05 · answer #7 · answered by vorenhutz 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Go to ...Me.. (That means come on!) Go to man. When God told Abraham this he meant that Abraham would have many children "as" or like the stars of heaven. You must slow down a bit and read the whole book. Then you will be able to discern what is figurative and what is not.
2007-07-22 22:45:30 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
No. The number of humans living is nowhere close to that, and I doubt it will ever be. I mean... we're struggling now with roughly 7 billion people on the planet. How do you expect the future to look if things continue on their current path?
2007-07-22 22:43:07 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Is that how many humans on the earth at the one time
Or passed through it?
good questions....
We would be living on top of each other if there were that many and we would have no resources left....
I don't think so --- I think Jesus will come back when the father tells him too.
2007-07-22 22:45:37 · answer #10 · answered by Abbasangel 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋