God wouldn't burden Adam and his immediate progenitors with such an obscene requirement.
Ther aren't billions of prophecies and God only concerned us with star constellations visible to the naked eye.
In other words, you admit you don't have a full list, at least, of the names of the stars God has made. But you do think you have the names of some of the stars visible to a person looking at them from earth. So far, though, you've not demonstrated that the names humans use to refer to the various constellations and individual stars are from God, that they are the actual names He has given to the stars.
Well, you gave me names and names have meaning just as the names of the stars have meaning and a groug of stars are called constellation and that make a sentence.
But I never said that names didn't have meanings; I only pointed out that a list and a sentence are not the same thing.
Again, a list or group of names don't constitute a sentence with meaning. As you illustrated, you have to impose all sorts of things upon a list of names in order to make it say something meaningful. But when you do so, you are simply forcing your own meaning onto the list of names, making the list say what you think it ought to say. How doing this with the names of stars and constellations of stars equates to a "message from God" I have no idea. And, so far, you've offered nothing that indicates that whatever "message" you've imposed upon the names of stars is truly from Him.
That's OK you don't believe.
I've got no good reason to do so.
And God has been gracious to me to impart this knowledge to me that began when I was 5 years old, and He gave me an interest in the stars and planets and the other objects in the heaven.
No, I don't think He has; you've simply imagined that He has.
And in all my learning it just made me praise and glorify God deeper than others who have no faith.
It's...telling that you make this comparison, denigrating those who don't join you in your star-message fantasy. As far as I'm concerned, you've shown the human origin of your star-stuff, comparing yourself to others, making yourself superior to them. Such self-righteous pride is never of God. But it is very gnostic.
Frances Rolleston first studied the Scripture and God gave her understanding of the Gospel message in the stars. Then E. W. Bullinger studied this so it's not fantasy. It's real. Bullinger did an excellent work for the Church. And both these individuals have reputable integrity and sound doctrine.
Merely giving one's "understanding" of something by no means establishes that one's "understanding" is correct - even if it is published in a book. Many books have been written that have been utterly in error. And that someone else writes on the same subject doesn't automatically secure the veracity of one's claims. How many books on atheism have been written? Do you agree that they're all correct because they've been published by scholars and are numerous? I doubt it.
Correlation does not equal causation. Being able to draw some correlation between things does not prove they are related in any direct, or causal, way. Because Bob spilled his coffee three seconds before the phone rang doesn't mean there is a relationship between the two things. Though they are in close proximity to each other in time, Bob's accident with his coffee didn't make the phone ring. In fact, there is no real connection, no correlation, between them at all. Superstitious thinking, though, would link them together - like linking certain numbers, or names, or creatures in Scripture with the same things found in pagan astrology.
Beyond this, though, fishing about in the Bible for parallels to pagan astrology so that one can create a "message from God" seems very evidently to me to be both pointless and dangerous. If God thought it important for His children to ponder "star messages," He'd have made a clear, direct, and repeated point of saying so in His word, like He does with the subject of the Gospel, or of love, or holiness, or peace, or any of a great number of spiritual things. But there is
nothing in Scripture about seeking out "star messages," not one explicit, biblical directive to search for such things, or any example of anyone in Scripture doing so. Why, then, are you fussing about Rolleston's book?
Peter asked Jesus "and what will this disciple do?" (speaking of John.) Remember what Jesus said? In so many words He said, "It's none of your business" (what God does with His own servants. "YOU follow ME!"
So, keep YOUR eyes on God and not on man.
When Paul, Peter and John encountered false teachers, people proposing false doctrines and ideas among those in the Church, they didn't "mind their own business." They pointed at them very directly and said, "Beware!" In any case, you made your star-message stuff my business when, in a public forum, you urged your readers (myself among them) to adopt your views on the "Gospel in the stars." If you want to make your star fiction none of my business, don't offer it to me (and others) on a
public forum.
Psalm 19 for one reveal that the heaven has speech and knowledge.
The Psalms are often
poetic, employing
figurative language, as poems often do.
Psalm 19:1-5
1 The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork.
Does the Psalmist say in what way, exactly, "the heavens declare the glory of God"? No. Does the Psalmist indicate by what means the "sky proclaims God's handiwork"? Again, no. But we can be sure that figurative language is in use in the verse because we know the sky has no mind, no mouth, no vocal chords by which to "proclaim" anything.
2 Day to day pours out speech, and night to night reveals knowledge.
3 There is no speech, nor are there words, whose voice is not heard.
The passing days "pour out speech"? How does a period of sunlight that we call "day" do this? A day has no physical means of speaking, no larynx, or lips, tongue. Clearly, this is figurative language the Psalmist is using here.
4 Their voice goes out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them he has set a tent for the sun,
God has "set a tent for the sun"? Obviously, this is not intended literally. The sun has no need of a tent, nor, when it is examined through a good telescope, will one see a tent within which the sun resides.
5 which comes out like a bridegroom leaving his chamber, and, like a strong man, runs its course with joy.
Now it's really plain that poetic license is being used. The sun is not
actually a "bridegroom leaving his chamber," running across the sky "like a strong man" enjoying exercise; it's a massive, burning ball of gas and fiery plasma around which the earth is regularly orbiting. So, then, when I read of the heaven's declaring the glory of God, or the sky proclaiming His handiwork, I recognize that this is not a literal description, but, rather, figurative, expressing the idea that what I can see in the beauty, complexity, power and majesty of the earth's atmosphere and in the awesome expanse of the observable universe around me is a "silent witness," a "testimony of Nature" to the existence of God - what Christian philosopher's call "natural theology."
Nothing in
Psalms 19:1, however, obliges me to think that there is an occult (hidden), divine message in the stars about the redemptive work of Christ, or urges me to look for such a message.
Verse 1 describes a very general reality, not a specific, secret message that awaits someone like Frances Rolleston to disentangle, through a complex series of presumed connections and parallels, from pagan astrology.
I know enough about the Gospel of God in the stars and it is magnificent!
Uh huh. See above. The really important stuff is spelled out to us plainly and repeatedly
in God's word, not in convoluted parallels to pagan astrology.