Surely, comparing the number of stars in the heavens to the sand on the seashore would be an absurd conjecture for a mere human author to make 6,000 years ago. Prior to the invention of the telescope in the 1600s, stargazers could only count a few hundred stars. God's Word actually compares the number of stars in the heavens to the grains of sand on the seashore.
Now consider this: In Genesis 22:17, God told Abraham ".in blessing I will bless you, and in multiplying I will multiply your seed as the stars of the heavens, and as the sand which is on the seashore." Seventy sextillion is 70 followed by 21 zeros so 70 sextillion 3 is 70 followed by 21 zeros x 70 followed by 21 zeros x 70 followed by 21 zeros (or 343,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000)! One scientist made the statement that this unfathomable number is "more than 10 times the grains of sand in every beach and desert on earth!" The following year, astronomers discovered more than a dozen other evenly-distributed clumps of galaxies, suggesting a structure to the universe that is so regular and immense that it defied the then-existent theories of cosmic origins.īut here's the really neat part! A team led by an Australian astronomer calculated the number of stars in the known universe to be 70 sextillion 3. Based on detailed measurements of each galaxy's brightness, thus rendering an approximate number of stars they each contain, astronomers estimate that this "Great Wall" consists of 1500 trillion (1,500,000,000,000,000) solar systems! The "Great Wall" consists of more than 15,000 galaxies, each with billions of stars.
This "Great Wall" is estimated to be 500 million light years (3 quintillion miles) long, 200 million light years (1.2 quintillion miles) wide, and 15 million light years (90 quadrillion miles) thick 3. In 1989, two astronomers discovered a "Great Wall" of galaxies 1 spanning millions of light-years 2. I say that because the most dramatic discoveries have happened in just the past few decades and only Elohim (the Creator) knows what other discoveries await us. When we talk about the universe, it's important to qualify the word "universe" as " known universe". Have you ever had trouble "proving" to someone that the Bible is divinely inspired? Well, here's something that might help it's really simple and yet mind-blowing at the same time.
Is by the sea shore, were fathered by one man." Multitude, and as innumerable as the sand which "Therefore as many as the stars of the sky in The Stars and Sand - Is the Bible Divinely Inspired?
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