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God's Finger Work

By George Stroh

December 7, 2020

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. (Genesis 1:1) When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have ordained. (Psalm 8:3)

Our sun has a diameter of 864,000 miles, which makes it 109 times larger than our earth, which is only about 24,900 miles in diameter. The earth is about 92 million miles from the sun and rotates around it at about 1,000 miles per hour. Just a little closer or further away or a little faster or slower rotation, and the earth would soon be uninhabitable.

Our solar system has 8 or 9 planets (if you count Pluto) and has a diameter of over 5 trillion miles. Our sun and solar system is rather small compared to the other 100 thousand million stars (or suns) in the Milky Way galaxy. And there are over 200 billion other galaxies in the observable universe with an estimated 700 quintillion planets (give or take a few I assume). Traveling from earth to the edge of the observable universe at the speed of light (186,282 miles per second) would take around 46 billion light years. Better bring a lunch!

The fool has said in his heart, there is no God. (Psalm 14:1)

Maranatha!