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Good Heavens! The Human Side of Astronomy

See Four Planets this Spring!

Apr 23, 2022
20:18

From now through the beginning of June, you can see four planets closely aligned - Jupiter, Venus, Mars, and Saturn. 

On this special episode, we give you some pointers about how you can see these celestial diadems just before sunrise and we offer some thoughts about how they remind us of God's glory. 

One may not agree with Lewis's use of medieval symbol and pagan mythology as imaginative symbols pointing to Christ. We are not suggesting it is an appropriate apologetic approach for everyone. Certainly Christianity teaches the rejection of pagan idolatry in both the Old and New Testaments. Yet it was the apostle Paul himself who took ideas from pagan Greek poetry about the gods and related it to Jesus to the philosophers and stoics gathered atop Mars Hill in Athens (see Acts 17 and an episode on our sister podcast Apologetics Profile about Paul on Mars Hill here)

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Books mentioned on this episode: 

Planet Narnia - The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis  

Nightwatch  

Living The Sky - The Cosmos of the American Indian  

Our book The Story of the Cosmos - How the Heavens Declare the Glory of God  

 

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