I think the stars are souls

[pjburkshire]

Here is a deep question. When was the decision made on which particular soul was to be sent to Earth to be the child of a particular set of parents? Was everything planned out from the Dawn of Creation? Or was the decision made at the start of the new pregnancy?

No one wants to talk about the hard questions. Non-believers don't want to offend believers. Believers are hesitant to question the beliefs they have been taught.

If you believe that humans have souls then you have to have some idea of when that soul gets into the human body. Many Christians today claim that the soul enters the body the moment the sperm and egg unite – at the moment of fertilization. That was not always the case. Even the Catholic Church has on their website that was not always the case.

People keep saying that we need to think like the people thought at the time the Voynich Manuscript was created. I agree. The people of that time did not separate religion and science. At that time, religion was everything.

I realize that talking about human reproduction makes a lot of people uncomfortable. I realize that some people are still chasing the idea that the star-like images in the Voynich Manuscript are representations of the stars up in the night sky. As long as you keep looking in the wrong places for the answers, you are going to keep going around in circles.

Talking about stars up in the night sky is so much nicer and cleaner and more polite than having to talk about souls entering the body of a pregnant woman. If you really think that the star-like images in the manuscript are representations of stars up in the night sky, please explain to me why you think that. What story are they telling in this manuscript? Why do you think the people who made this manuscript were obsessed with stars in the night sky and not obsessed with human souls? Was the Church in the early 15th century really heavily into the old Pagan ideas of people being controlled by the stars in the night sky? Where did that fit with the teachings of Jesus? What verses in the New Testament say the stars in the night sky control people?