“This most beautiful system of the sun, planets, and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.” – Sir Isaac Newton
Was the Eclipse a Spiritual Experience for You?
I enjoyed seeing the eclipse today from Florida and watching the news coverage from the path of totality. Many people said the total solar eclipse was a spiritual experience.
I kept thinking of Psalm 19:1, “The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork.” God is even more glorious than the eclipses that He created.
Former U. S. Vice President, Mike Pence, tweeted today on X:
“Astronomers . . . tell us that there are 295 moons in our solar system. And yet ours is the only moon with the exact size and distance to perfectly match the sun and produce the amazing spectacle we see somewhere on our planet every 18 months or so. If our moon was any smaller the sky would not turn dark, and if it was any larger, we would never see that brilliant corona. For many, it is a source of wonder, that the one place where these amazing eclipses occur, is the one place where there are observers to see them.
“In one of his humorous harangues about ‘Life Below the Beltway,’ Washington Post contributor Gene Weingarten once admitted, ‘I am a devout atheist but can’t explain why the moon is exactly the right size, and gets positioned so precisely between the earth and the sun, that total solar eclipses are perfect. It bothers me.’ (The Washington Post, Sunday, March 8, 2009).”
If you have any more questions about eclipses, I found the following:
- The Sun and Moon-Designed for Eclipses (ICR.org) is about other unique features of our sun and moon.
- 3 Ways April 8’s Total Solar Eclipse Reminds Us of Biblical Truth (Answers in Genesis)
- The mathematical precision of the heavens points to a Creator.
- The heavens really do declare the glory of God
- It’s obvious to all that there’s a Creator.
Was the eclipse a spiritual experience for you? Comment below.
NOTES:
- The quote is from Sir Isaac Newton’s Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.
- We enjoyed seeing the 2017 total solar eclipse.
- The photo is of a solar eclipse over Russia in August 2008. It is downloadable from Wikimedia Commons.
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