Editorial January 30, 1971 Issue

Consider the Stars

Naomi Price

Who can thoughtfully contemplate a starlit sky and not be moved? The stately procession of the planets and the magnificence of the constellations reaching into endless space often have a profound effect on men. Sometimes this scene awakes in them the spiritual sense that recognizes in the awesome evidence of the immensity of creation the greatness of the real man created by God. At other times it wrongly urges them to identify themselves humanly with the great material components of the firmament.

The spiritually perceptive Psalmist wrote, "When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; what is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?" And he concludes with triumphant recognition of the greatness of the real man, the climax of God's creation, "Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet."^{ Ps. 8:3, 4, 6;}

Ancient astrologers likewise studied the movements of the stars, but their conclusions were different. Their viewpoint was material, and they calculated that a relationship exists between the stars and the destiny of people on the earth. Their theories denied the Biblical revelation of man's unique stature of divinely bestowed dominion as the spiritual son of God, independent of conflicting animal influences. They relegated him to a position of inferiority in the universe, a mortal creature who is subservient to geometric altitudes and material forces.

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