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Gazelam wrote: The third, Alnitak, will drift away eastward so that the band will no longer exist. In fact, all the stars constituting the constellation of Orion are bound for different ports, and all are journeying to various corners of the universe, so that the bands are being dissolved - precisely as God said in his answer to Job.

Orion is also important in Australian Aboriginal Astronomy. For example, the Yolngu people of Arnhem Land say that the constellation of Orion, which they call Julpan, is a canoe. They tell the story of two brothers who went fishing, and caught and ate a fish that was forbidden under their law. Seeing this, the Sun sent a waterspout that carried the two brothers and their canoe up into the sky where they became the Orion constellation.

Gazelam wrote:In the Old Testament, Job received a sort of astronomy lesson from God that reveals an amount of knowledge of the stars far beyond anything that technology could have shown the author of Job at the time it was written.

In Job 38:31, God says to Job, "Can you bind the beautiful Pleiades? Can you loose the cords of Orion?". Thousands of years after this question was posed to Job, late-nineteenth-century astronomers finally possessed telescopes and other equiptment strong and accurate enough to shed light on the question's full meaning.

They showed that orion's band (around what would be considered the waist of the figure in the constellation) consists of an almost perfectly straight line of second-magnitude stars about equally spaced and of the most striking beauty. Yet each of the stars is travelling in a different direction and at a different speed. In the course of time, the two right-hand stars, Mintaka and Alnilam, will approach each other and form what will be seen by the naked eye as a double star. The third, Alnitak, will drift away eastward so that the band will no longer exist. In fact, all the stars constituting the constellation of Orion are bound for different ports, and all are journeying to various corners of the universe, so that the bands are being dissolved - precisely as God said in his answer to Job.
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In the Old Testament, Job received a sort of astronomy lesson from God that reveals an amount of knowledge of the stars far beyond anything that technology could have shown the author of Job at the time it was written.

In Job 38:31, God says to Job, "Can you bind the beautiful Pleiades? Can you loose the cords of Orion?". Thousands of years after this question was posed to Job, late-nineteenth-century astronomers finally possessed telescopes and other equiptment strong and accurate enough to shed light on the question's full meaning.

They showed that orion's band (around what would be considered the waist of the figure in the constellation) consists of an almost perfectly straight line of second-magnitude stars about equally spaced and of the most striking beauty. Yet each of the stars is travelling in a different direction and at a different speed. In the course of time, the two right-hand stars, Mintaka and Alnilam, will approach each other and form what will be seen by the naked eye as a double star. The third, Alnitak, will drift away eastward so that the band will no longer exist. In fact, all the stars constituting the constellation of Orion are bound for different ports, and all are journeying to various corners of the universe, so that the bands are being dissolved - precisely as God said in his answer to Job.

18Hast thou perceived the breadth of the earth? declare if thou knowest it all.

19Where is the way where light dwelleth? and as for darkness, where is the place thereof,

20That thou shouldest take it to the bound thereof, and that thou shouldest know the paths to the house thereof?

21Knowest thou it, because thou wast then born? or because the number of thy days is great?

22Hast thou entered into the treasures of the snow? or hast thou seen the treasures of the hail,

23Which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war?

24By what way is the light parted, which scattereth the east wind upon the earth?

25Who hath divided a watercourse for the overflowing of waters, or a way for the lightning of thunder;

26To cause it to rain on the earth, where no man is; on the wilderness, wherein there is no man;

27To satisfy the desolate and waste ground; and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth?

28Hath the rain a father? or who hath begotten the drops of dew?

29Out of whose womb came the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it?

30The waters are hid as with a stone, and the face of the deep is frozen.

31Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?

32Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?

33Knowest thou the ordinances of heaven? canst thou set the dominion thereof in the earth?

34Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover thee?

35Canst thou send lightnings, that they may go and say unto thee, Here we are?

Gazelam wrote:In the Old Testament, Job received a sort of astronomy lesson from God that reveals an amount of knowledge of the stars far beyond anything that technology could have shown the author of Job at the time it was written.

In Job 38:31, God says to Job, "Can you bind the beautiful Pleiades? Can you loose the cords of Orion?". Thousands of years after this question was posed to Job, late-nineteenth-century astronomers finally possessed telescopes and other equiptment strong and accurate enough to shed light on the question's full meaning.

They showed that orion's band (around what would be considered the waist of the figure in the constellation) consists of an almost perfectly straight line of second-magnitude stars about equally spaced and of the most striking beauty. Yet each of the stars is travelling in a different direction and at a different speed. In the course of time, the two right-hand stars, Mintaka and Alnilam, will approach each other and form what will be seen by the naked eye as a double star. The third, Alnitak, will drift away eastward so that the band will no longer exist. In fact, all the stars constituting the constellation of Orion are bound for different ports, and all are journeying to various corners of the universe, so that the bands are being dissolved - precisely as God said in his answer to Job.

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solomarineris wrote:were.
Do you have a family you love?
One day this idiot God, while haveing good time with Satan, bets him that Job will
remain faithful to him, even if he destroys his family.
-Satan happily obliges.
-God Kills every member of Jobs family...wife children, animals, you name it....
And then he rewards Job for his faithfulness with a brand new set of wife, children, animals.....

Would you like to trade your family for a better set of family...
That is exactly what this idiot God promises.

And...what was the subject?
Astronomy?
We are dealing with a cold blooded Murderous God here.

solomarineris wrote:were.
Do you have a family you love?
One day this idiot God, while haveing good time with Satan, bets him that Job will
remain faithful to him, even if he destroys his family.
-Satan happily obliges.
-God Kills every member of Jobs family...wife children, animals, you name it....
And then he rewards Job for his faithfulness with a brand new set of wife, children, animals.....

Would you like to trade your family for a better set of family...
That is exactly what this idiot God promises.

And...what was the subject?
Astronomy?
We are dealing with a cold blooded Murderous God here.