By Lisa Grace
All spellings for the Greek
and Hebrew are phonetic, as printing them in the Greek or Hebrew won't add
anything for the casual reader.
Many preachers and Christians
have a one world view. The Earth was made for humans and it is the only world.
Period. End of discussion. Now these same people will admit that the third
heaven is occupied by God and the variety of angels mentioned in the Bible that
live there.
However, there are some that
think the Holy Scriptures state quite clearly there is more than one inhabited
planet. (Hebrews 1:2, and Hebrews 11:3) The translators take the Greek word,
"aion" and picked the meaning to be "worlds."
Plus, the Greek word,
"aster" clearly means stars, so "worlds" should not be
confused with "stars."
Earlier, in the Hebrew
translation, it's the word "Ko-kav" for stars and "Totav"
for world, and "Eretz" for earth.
We know the account of
Genesis applies to our universe only. God doesn't go on to tell us when He made
the angels, what He was doing before He decided to create earth and our
heavens, or the angels, but chooses instead to tell us there are
"mysteries."
Because "places"
are relative to time, speed, and location it's hard for us to wrap our brains
around the fact that there may well be dimensions of being, other universes,
that God is involved in, actively.
He was, is, and always will
be. This statement alone shows He is the Creator of "all" and
"all" is so much more than we can even begin to comprehend.
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