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...Sure it does, God created the moon and stated it was a created light to give light to the earth. That is what God wants man to know about the moon.
The Genesis verse was a short mention of the function of the sun and moon. In other verses there is additional detail as the purpose may dictate. The Bible is written in a thematic way. Not in a scientific way where everything about a topic is written all at once. The thematic way requires the reader to put one verse about a topic with another same topic verse in another book OT or NT which support each other.
That is what's meant by "line upon line and precept by precept." Someone once described it as the front side of a work of knitting. It's orderly. But turn to the backside and see the tie-offs of the yarn that are tied to other tie-offs. The knowledge of God is not everything right at the surface but a person has to dig deep to find the connections.
...But men of science and more than likely "unbelieving men of science" came up with the idea that the moon is lit by the sun and which causes the moon to have phases and reflect light to the earth. Because of the movement of the moon and the movement of the sun, earth, etc...
There are scriptures that speak of full moons, new moons, and moon phases such as the sliver of light that must be witnessed by appointed men, that sliver of light signals the beginning of an appointed feast of the Lord.
No author of any book has said that the moon shines with it's own light. They say that the moon gives light.
Like Christians give the gospel. We are not the authors of it. We don't own it. But we are lights that reflect the true light of the world.
There's a text which also states that when the sun is darkened the moon has no light. Meaning that the moon depends on the light from the sun to even be seen at all.. night or day. During an eclipse the moon facing the earth is black because it has no light of it's own. During the phases the moon is dark while another part is light. That is only possible because the moon doesn't have it's own self-generated light. It only reflects light from the sun.
...Now in describing in The Bible the moon. God could have easily stated how He created the moon to work as a created light. How He ordered to light to function in phases, how the moon produces its own light. etc.. But God did not, just like how God did not go into detail of how Jesus was able to walk on water. People are just given the account that Jesus walked on water. So you may believe it or not.
God did not say that the moon had or produces it's own light. A lamp doesn't generate it's own light, it needs a power source or it won't give it's light.
The moon doesn't have it's own light any more than Peter had of himself the ability to do miracles. When the people thanked him he clearly pointed to God's power that made the miracles possible.
If someone gives you $100 and you give it to someone else. You are not the source of the money, the person who gave it to you is the source. Tell the person you gave the money to, to thank the person who gave it to you. Because you couldn't have given it if it hadn't been given to you.
We can extrapolate that Jesus walked on the water by faith or why else would he rebuke Peter who lost his faith to walk on the water to 'come' to Jesus. Where did Jesus get his faith to walk on water? From a verse in the Psalms. He had live by faith because Jesus was on the earth as a man not as God.
...So it really boils down to a person either believes God's testimony about His (God's) creation or a person believes mans testimony about God's creation.
You expect people to believe your testimony. A man who believes and interprets independently from the Christian orthodox theology and creationists.
A Christian will believe God's word and not man who's beliefs are unorthodox. But a Christian doesn't normally ignore the observable laws of nature either.
When science uses observational methods to give detail about God's creation. That science can be accepted as supportive to explain creation in a technical-informational way that God's word doesn't.
God uses nature that He created to lead people to Him. We know by faith that the world-cosmos was framed-established by the word of God.
...But now it has even traveled further away from being a creation by God. To a mystery beginning, that is not even defined as a creation but an un-caused beginning that has a un-caused process of evolution. that brought about what science calls the universe.
The Bible (wherever the case may be) uses the word "world" to refer to the cosmos which is a synonym of universe. Atheistic scientists didn't come up with the universe, they only use science to describe it.
