give sites please.What is the christian view of the constellations?The bible says God put the stars in the heavens to mark time and seasons, and to manifest his power and glory to humanity.What is the christian view of the constellations?We do not get into astrology in that it is based on viewing the stars and constellations as fate-holdersWhat is the christian view of the constellations?You may want to do your own research on what the star was that heralded Jesus' birth. Was a constellation? was it a comet? was it a natural phenomenon or was it supernatural? Read about the wise-men and how they interpreted the heavens.What is the christian view of the constellations?
Why would a "report" on constellations include what a religion based on myth and superstition think about stars?
You do know that the constellations are just "shapes" that we humans made up for what look like groups of stars, don't you? That they aren't "real" groupings of stars? For example, one of the most well-known constellations (the Big Dipper, Ursa Major, or the Plough), while it looks very much like a big-handled ladle to us, really consists of stars that are at great distances from each other, and that have no connection of any kind to each other. If you were to travel a few light years away from earth, the Big Dipper wouldn't look like a Big Dipper any more -- because your viewpoint would be different. It's just a chance alignment as seen from our point of view in our galaxy.
Ancient cultures projected their gods and myths into the sky using their imaginations. Some constellations really do sort of look like the mythical being they're supposed to represent (Orion, Cygnus), while others don't look anything like their namesake (Ophiuchus, Aries) and you have to wonder if the ancients didn't just "fill in" areas of the sky with whatever they wanted to rather than base it all on appearance.
At any rate, they're just stars seen from our point of view. Nothing special about them, no supernatural powers, no connection, no astrological meaning. Just human imagination at work.
Peace.
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