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- The planets and stars moving in their predictable orbits reveal the Creator’s handiwork. As the psalmist declared, “The heavens proclaim the glory of God” (Psalm 19:1). While astrological horoscopes that claim to predict the future are unbiblical (Isaiah 47:13-15), the celestial bodies themselves testify to God’s glory.
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40 There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another. 41 There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars: for one star differeth from another star in glory.
The "celestial bodies" are not the sun, moon, and stars of the next verse - for that would be a false antithesis to "bodies terrestrial" - but bodies (or organisms) which belong to heavenly beings, such as the resurrection body of our Lord and of glorified saints, or even in some sense of angels (Matthew 22:30).
1 Corinthians 15:40-58. New King James Version. 40 There are also [a]celestial bodies and [b]terrestrial bodies; but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another. 41 There is one glory of the sun, another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for one star differs from another star in glory.
1 Corinthians 15:40-49. King James Version. 40 There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another. 41 There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars: for one star differeth from another star in glory.
Jun 5, 2024 · The Bible, while not a scientific text, does make numerous references to celestial bodies such as stars, the sun, and the moon. These references invite reflection on the grandeur and mystery of the universe from a theological perspective.
But the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another; now between these two species of bodies, in respect of qualities, there is a very great difference; the glory of the heavenly bodies is much greater than the glory of the earthy bodies that are compounded of the elements.
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To speak directly to the point: So also, says he, is the resurrection of the dead; so (as the plant growing out of the putrefied grain), so as no longer to be a terrestrial but a celestial body, and varying in glory from the other dead, who are raised, as one star does from another. But he specifies some particulars: as, (1.)
