Corinthians 15:41 The sun has one kind of splendor, the moon another and the stars another...
2007-12-19 08:19:54 · 24 answers · asked by Fred S - AM Cappo Di Tutti Capi 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Clever....
2007-12-19 08:22:39 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 4⤋
i don't think they knew at that time that the sun was a star....so they perhaps classified the sun as simply being the sun...and the stars and the moon as such.
The thing about the bible is to not take it so seriously. I mean, take it seriously but not down to the very word. Some parts of the bible are metaphors and things used to explain a concept or idea. If i were to now say that because the bible singled out the sun from the stars then - i would now have to say that the sun is not a star - it is the sun.
Doesn't make sense does it? Especially since we know the sun is a type of star.
But regardless, i still believe that the men who wrote the bible didn't know the Sun was a type of Star and simple as that.
2007-12-19 08:29:39 · answer #2 · answered by Angelita Amante 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
That doesn't say it's not a star.
It just seems to be a comparison - the sun indeed has a different type of splendor because it's BIG and HOT from our perspective.
Anyway Paul wasn't giving a science lesson there, he was using a comparison to make a completely different point.
Gotta read it in context.
Love Jack
PS To CraigC - the Bible doesn not say anywhere that the world is flat. Anyway, at the time Paul wrote, it was known that the world was round (at least by the educated) - the Greeks had figured that out quite sometime before Paul wrote.
2007-12-19 08:25:21 · answer #3 · answered by Jack 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Well, to my own knowledge...no...there isn't a specific verse that I know of, saying that the sun is not a star....
but I DID find this passage.... hope it helps:
16 God made two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars. 17 God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth, 18 to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good.
I guess from it you can sort of ASSUME that the sun and moon aren't stars... because it says God made two great LIGHTS (he calls them lights, not stars) and then he goes on about making stars ALSO .... so... if the sun WAS a star... then the passage would have said something more like:
And God made two great lights, the sun and the moon, then he made MORE stars...
something like that.
hope it makes sense to you.
2007-12-19 08:27:59 · answer #4 · answered by Jennifer C 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
When the bible was written no one even understood what a star was other than they seemed to be fixed in the sky. There are people now who don't even know that the sun is a star.
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2007-12-19 08:24:00 · answer #5 · answered by Barkley Hound 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
God created the Heaven and the earth and the earth was without form and God said let there be light and there was light there for God made the Sun so it is not a star but a light from Heaven
2007-12-19 08:26:04 · answer #6 · answered by jesuslovesme_jesusforgaveme 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It think it has something to do with their unique characteristics, seeing as the moon is defintitely distinct as a changing near satellite, the stars distinct in their radience and extreme distance, and the sun definitely distinct as the star of THIS world. Ever been smart enough to think "difficult" answers out for yourself? I thought this was Grade 1 stuff.
2007-12-19 08:25:51 · answer #7 · answered by great gig in the sky 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It not call the Sun a star.
2007-12-19 08:28:02 · answer #8 · answered by Pamela V 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, the Bible does not say that. The ancients (and some people today) do not understand that the big yellow ball of fire in our sky is also a star.
2007-12-19 08:24:15 · answer #9 · answered by credo quia est absurdum 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Look at the people who are claiming the sun is not a star. Wow now you know why I am not a believer. I can't be deliberately stupid.
2007-12-19 09:10:25 · answer #10 · answered by Stainless Steel Rat 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, the sun OBVIOSLY has a different splendour than the moon or stars. Whats your point? It isnt saying The sun is not a star ya e-jit.
2007-12-19 08:24:21 · answer #11 · answered by ciandoherty100 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋