Rainbows should ONLY appear on Earth if the promise GOD made was true...So if rainbows appear on other planets bacause of science;...THEN THE BIBLE LIES...That was my point...HELP ME Understand...?
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BillyGEE
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Stop taking the bible and "god" literally.
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You need to understand that the Bible is not the literal word of God, even if you do believe in its teachings. Rainbows in general are NOT God's promise. Only the one that Noah saw was a specific promise. Therefore, those which appear on other planets are consistent with the Bible.
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so, every time I spray my garden hose while the sun is shining, that's god's promise?
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Well, the answer is that the story incorporates the rainbow as a promise from Yahweh in order to explain rainbows and give them meaning. This was thousands of years ago in nomadic tribes. In fact, the Biblical flood myth is a derivation of older Mesopotamian myths. Humans have increased their knowledge of the world around them since then, developed science, and now know what causes us to see a rainbow. Light refraction isn't a phenomenon specific to this planet. You are going to continue to have a conflict with this if you take the Bible as the literal word of a deity and try to reconcile it with scientific truth.
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The Bible applies to us...those of Earth. If rainbows appear on other planets, perhaps God has a promise with them too. Or perhaps they maybe good people and the rainbow is a sign of God's love for them as they are very pretty. Who knows what it may mean to them and how they interpret it. However many rainbows appear on however many planets does not mean that God lied to us on earth. The rainbow is a symbol of God's promise to us here on earth.
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Why? Before the Flood, there was a canopy around the earth which prevented rainbows from forming in earth's atmosphere. Why couldn't God take advantage of the fact that the canopy was broken, allowing rainbows to form for the first time, and use that as a permanent reminder to the people of these events? And yes, SOMETHING was different in the atmosphere in man's early history. We have a bronze age hammer which contains chlorine in its structure. That's not possible in today's atmosphere.
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thanx
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Um...I think that God just used a rainbow to be a symbol of his promise for us. It's not like just then, God all of a sudden whipped out a rainbow and said, "this is only specific to planet earth, I created it just so that we could have this cool visual promise. Awesome eh?" That's how I feel at least.
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After the Great Flood we know a "Layer of Atmosphere" was "Lost" do to the "Flood" allowing the "Refraction Process" that God used as His "Signature" guaranteeing the world would not be destroyed again by Flooding. As stated in an earlier Answer we can & do see this in the testing of materials from "Pre-Flood & "Post-Flood". John
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It's because that's a MYTH. In my religion, the myths say that the gods use the rainbow to travel to earth (could be a reference to the Milky Way though). But now we know what causes rainbows. Don't confuse the window trappings with the religion itself. Just focus on the actual THEOLOGY rather than the STORIES. The stories are there to illustrate points, not explain the natural world scientifically.
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