Psalms 147:4 – Matty (Headwind)

April 4, 2021April 4, 2021

Sun Star Synonymy

He telleth the number of the stars; he calleth them all by their names.
(Psalms 147:4) KJV

We’re on popular science turf (SciPop) when we start talking in scientific terms about the cosmos. This is where some sleight-of-hand has been deployed: SciPop wants you to believe that the stars are suns.

October 12, 2020April 4, 2022

Synonymy

There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another. There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars: for one star differeth from another star in glory.
(1 Corinthians 15:40-41) Good News Translation

Galileo was one of the first to popularize the idea that stars are distant suns. He was trying to explain why he couldn’t measure the stellar parallax that he predicted would be there if heliocentricity was true.