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Job 38:31

Job 38:31

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible · John Gill (1697–1771) · Public Domain

though some restrain this to the five planets only.Ed. Contrast the foolishness of modern cosmology with the writings of the early church father, Theophilus when he states :"On the fourth day the luminaries came into existence.

Since God has foreknowledge, he understood the nonsense of the foolish philosophers who were going to say that the things produced on earth came from the stars, so that they might set God aside. In order therefore that the truth might be demonstrated, plants and seeds came into existence before stars.

For what comes into existence later cannot cause what is prior to it.'' Astro-Theology, B. 1. c. 2. & B. 6. c. 2. Cited from Impact 251. ICR "Acts and Facts" (May 1994); Theophilus, "To Autolycus" 2.

4, Oxford Early Christian Texts, as cited in Louis Lavalle, "The Early Church Defended Creation Science" Impact 160. ICR "Acts and Facts" (October 1986): ii. Chambers's Dictionary in the word "Moon".

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