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  • Samira on Genesis 2 - 3 years ago
    Why does the bible say two great lights when the moon is obviously a reflected light from the sun?
  • Chris - In Reply on Genesis 2 - 3 years ago
    Samira, since you've received other responses, I too will add to them to give you some balance & confirmation of your belief. What you read from the Bible & from your own understanding of the two great lights in the heavens, is correct. The Sun, being a gaseous star, produces its own heat & light from nuclear fusion of hydrogen & helium gases. The moon, like the Earth, is just a great big lump of rock, & produces no light of its own but simply reflects sunlight. Just as viewing the Earth from the Moon or from space, the Earth will give off light, but again, not its own light, but reflected light from the Sun.

    If this were not the case with the Moon, then the phases of the Moon that we see should just be an optical illusion. But the phases prove that there is something hiding a part of the Moon (i.e. the Earth's spherical shadow). If it were not so, then the Moon should constantly reveal to us here on Earth, a fully lit ball, if it indeed emitted its own light.

    And Genesis 1:16, the Hebrew word for 'Light' (maor) is translated 'luminary'. This allows for both the Sun & Moon to either generate their own sources of light or to be reflectors of it. God had provided mankind a light source for both day & night, even if it is only a reflected light from the Moon.
  • Drew - In Reply on Genesis 2 - 3 years ago
    The moon is not reflected light. It is a separate and distinct light source. Sometimes it can be seen that the sun and moon are visible in opposite ends of the sky simultaneously during an eclipse. The Bible contains no errors. Research our flat earth reality. Read "Heaven & Hell" by Gabrielle Henriet.
  • Richard in Christ - In Reply on Genesis 2 - 3 years ago
    Hello Drew,

    Glad to see a brother in flat earth. As this was the beginning of my journey to the Lord. Being led, in a journey, to the truth of our earth. Which led me to read the Bible leading me to Jesus Christ. One thing I've tested myself, as seen, pertaining to the moon shedding it's own light. Taking a temperature gun on a full moon night and seeing several degrees cooler temperatures, on a surface, in the moon light. From what was shadowed from the moonlight. Proving the light from the moon is a cooling light.

    Amen brother. Blessings
  • Drew - In Reply on Genesis 2 - 3 years ago
    Thank you for taking the time to make this reply. It is nice to see others affirming unpopular, yet Biblical truths.

    May the Lord bless you as well.

    -you're brother in Christ.
  • JUSTINE - In Reply on Genesis 2 - 3 years ago
    "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." GENESIS 1:16 KING JAMES HOLY BIBLE
  • Mishael - In Reply on Genesis 2 - 3 years ago
    You've got it right, and God made it just for us.

    Genesis 1

    14 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:

    15 And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.

    16 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.

    17 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,



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