For Harold

[Ohio]

Originally Posted by awareness

That was amazing. The singing of the cosmos. And here I thought God enjoyed only the beauty of it all.

Humans have been looking to the stars for a long time. In ancient times priests would stay up all night and study the starry sky. Then when something out of the ordinary and unpredictable happened, they'd interpret it as : The King and all his court had to be killed and replaced. We have both mythological and archaeological evidence of this.

Or perhaps ... "Look at the stars guys, this is fascinating. Have you been watching this every night? A King will soon be born in Bethlehem! Let's pack our camels and check this out!"

[awareness]

Originally Posted by Ohio

Or perhaps ... "Look at the stars guys, this is fascinating. Have you been watching this every night? A King will soon be born in Bethlehem! Let's pack our camels and check this out!"

Only if a star leads the way.

[Ohio]

Originally Posted by awareness

Only if a star leads the way.

That's exactly what happened ... for the few who were watching.

[awareness]

Originally Posted by Ohio

That's exactly what happened ... for the few who were watching.

See astrology ruled the day. Back then they believed the stars effected them ... and even guided them.

But if a star is going slow enough to guide a walker, it had to be a space ship. Not a star. Cuz we know stars don't do that.

[Timotheist]

or... the star thing did not happen.

[awareness]

Originally Posted by Timotheist

or... the star thing did not happen.

Astrology pretty much held sway, and even guided astronomy, up until the Enlightenment, or the Scientific Revolution. Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, and even Newton, believed in astrology. But eventually earth as just another planet killed astrology ; astrology depended on a stationary earth ... as stated in Psalms :

Psa 93:1* The LORD reigneth, he is clothed with majesty; the LORD is clothed with strength, wherewith he hath girded himself: the world also is stablished, that it cannot be moved.*