One of the silliest things I have done recently is comment on Quora (can't remember how I started-perhaps someone sent me a link), and as a consequence, I get sent the most inane questions one can think of! For example I was asked "Is the sun a planet or a star?" to which I replied "it is neither; it is what the Bible says it is - the sun!"
I do realise that I once thought the sun may have been a star when an unbeliever, but having said that, I don't really think I ever cared one whit what it was! But, some of the questions people ask! If only they would read the Bible! On Quora, whenever I quote from Scripture, I very, very, rarely get an "up vote", but I am not doing this to win a popularity contest - only to preach the truth in Christ!
I quote from the creation narrative in Gen. 1.14-19:
And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: and let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so. And God made two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: He made the stars also. And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good. And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
Subsequently, in God's Book, the greater light, and the lesser light, came to be known as the sun and the moon. The first mention of the sun being in Gen. 15.12, and the moon in Gen. 37.9. As can be seen from the above creation account, the sun is mentioned as a separate entity to a star, which rules it out from being one, for there is but one sun, and many stars (whom I believe to be the angelic host, not giant balls of gas). Can the sun be a planet? again the Bible makes a clear distinction, for in the KJV 1611, the word planet is mentioned once, and that in 2 Ki. 23.5, and it is plural, I quote the verse in full:
And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven.
We also see that the sun, moon, and the *stars, (host of heaven) became objects of worship to those who apostatized from the God who created them. In the 1884 Revised Version (RV) of the 1611 Authorized Version (AV), in the marginal notes, the word planets is also rendered the twelve signs, and/or, the constellations. It is therefore easy to infer that the planets in the aforementioned verse must be a special group of stars. Job 38.32 shines some light here, I quote:
Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? Or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?
In the RV margin of this verse, Mazzaroth is rendered the signs of the Zodiac or the twelve signs.
It is not too difficult to see why we should not consult the stars, most especially Christians; for the 'science' of astrology assumes and attempts to interpret the influence of the heavenly bodies on human affairs, and will no doubt lead us astray from God, who is upholding all things by the word of His power, Heb. 1.3 (my emphasis). He says of His glory; will I not give to another, Is. 42.8, 48.11. It was only the heathen nations that practiced such prognostications; Then the king commanded to call the magicians, and the astrologers, and the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans, for to shew the king his dreams. Dan. 2.2. (my emphasis). Of course, only Daniel as God's true servant, could tell Nebuchadnezzar the dream, because it was God who put it there in the first place, and who subsequently revealed to Daniel the interpretation thereof; Dan. 2.26-30! The earthly king of all the world at that time (Nebuchadnezzar) was but a puppet in God's hands! (see Prov. 21.1). It was true then, and it is as true today. The present kings (for we have now descended to the feet of Nebuchadnezzar's great image, see Dan. 2. 31-35) are fulfilling to the exact minutia, what God has predetermined, though they know it not! Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so, Is. 10.7 (a). Isaiah was speaking of the Assyrian, who foreshadows the coming Antichrist, who will also be fulfilling God's predetermined decrees, yet, likewise, he meaneth not so.
Hath God said (the words of Satan Gen. 3.1!) the sun is the sun, the moon the moon, the stars the stars? We would end up believing anything left to the wiles of men!
Should not a people seek unto their God? Is. 8.19. To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them. Is. 8.20. Sadly many Christians are deceived by what passes for science falsely so called. 1 Tim. 6.20.
*As the observable stars are not gigantic balls of gas, thousands or millions of miles across, and I believe them to be the angelic host; this being the case, those who worship them (knowingly, or indeed, unknowingly), do so through prognostication. They would 'advise' the gullible through their monthly horoscopes, and charts, thus leading them away from God and His written word, by causing them to put their faith in their 'wisdom' as Nebuchadnezzar did in his astrologers. Truly, My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge, Hos. 4.6, Can the blind lead the blind? shall they not both fall into the ditch? Lk. 6.39.
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