Of course it's okay for us to use the stars to navigate because the Bible says right in Genesis that they are for signs. If God has a problem with this practice wouldn't His Word declare it?
how is that different from astrology?
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At the time of the writing of the Bible astrology and astronomy were one and the same. Astronomy didn't separate from it as an actual science until late in the middle ages.
BTW, the original astrological signs are now out of sync due to something called the precession of the equinoxes. The stars slowly shift their positions over time, and in the 2000+ years since they were first assigned they are now nearly a full astrological sign out of their original position. That makes astrology completely bogus unless it takes that into account.
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The Vernal Equinox is called the "first point of Aries" by astrologers, since it was originally in that sign two thousand years ago. The problem is that the Vernal Equinox no longer is located in Aries, but in the adjacent constellation/sign: Pisces! In the two thousand years since the Sun signs were devised, the Earth's axis has precessed out of the original alignment, and with it the equinoxes!
This means that each of the other eleven so-called Sun signs used in horoscopes is out by the same amount: one entire Sun sign. For consistency, all present day birthdays need to be re-calibrated to the preceding sign. So if your birthday is July 6, like mine, you are no longer a Cancer but a Gemini! If it is October 4, you are no longer a Libra, but the sign just before, Virgo! And so on for each sign of the zodiac, displaced by a full 30 degrees. This means that the entire underpinning of zodiac signs, and their descriptions according to Astrology, is in error!
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Originally Posted By: ghoti
At the time of the writing of the Bible astrology and astronomy were one and the same. Astronomy didn't separate from it as an actual science until late in the middle ages.
I think that astronomy moved more toward the mathematical logic learned from stargazing. In fact, I think that's exactly where the two separate. Those of us who are clueless as far as math goes are forever stuck in the astrology section. :-)
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