Our Home - The Speck Of Dust

[naomi24]

NASA has just released images of a black hole located in a distant galaxy.

It measures 40 billion km across - three million times the size of the Earth - and has been described by scientists as "a monster". The black hole is 500 MILLION TRILLION km away.

Logically, do those enormous distances not encourage the creationist fraternity to wonder if they’re mistaken? Do they not ask why, from this whole unimaginably vast universe, a creator God would have selected this minute speck of dust located somewhere near the outer reaches of a fairly minor galaxy – just one of an estimated 2000 billion galaxies each containing billions of stars – as home to his beloved(?) creation – man?

Personally, I cannot believe we’re that special. What say you?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-47873592

[jno]

the existence of God isn't dependent on the size of the universe. If he can create this planet he can create as many as he likes.

[Theland]

Another promising thread drowned in a mocking guffaw without any reference to the science or consideration of alternative views.
A pity.
Nice try Naomi. I thought it was a good one.

[nailit]

Good to see you back Theland :-)

[Khandro]

n. //Personally, I cannot believe we’re that special.//

Then God help you!



To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour
..........

Auguries of Innocence BY WILLIAM BLAKE

[Theland]

Good to be back Nailit. A scary episode indeed.
Hope we can talk seriously about God and the Bible without the mocking darts.

[naomi24]

Khandro, //n. //Personally, I cannot believe we’re that special.//

/// Then God help you! ///

Why do you think your God needs to help me? In what way?

Do you think you're special, Khandro?

[naomi24]

jno at 20:44 Wed claims to know all about it. How do you know, jno?

[naomi24]

Theland, people are welcome to add their bit here. What do you think?

[Old_Geezer]

One only has to stick around here for a while to suspect many contributors are special.

[douglas9401]

"There is a poem out there somwhere which I cannot find which suggests that god sent his son to more than just earth...and ponders in the fact that there are an infinite number of worlds and that right now somwhere in the universe, Jesus is being born, crucified and rising again."

Don't we think that if an omniscient supreme being was going to have his only son rising and falling repeatedly all over the place he'd have called him Bob?

[Theland]

God is the Uncaused eternal First Cause and Creator of the universe, so magnificent and majestic and wise that He can close the minds and the eyes of the arrogant and still allow them free will.
His inspired Word is the Bible, a dusty old book of myths and fairy tales to some, even the educated, but a treasure of wisdom and instruction to those humble enough to search for God, knowing this life is but a precursor to the greater true reality.

[THECORBYLOON]

Are you saying God closes folk's minds? What purpose would that serve?

[Theland]

What purposes? His purposes!
A generous God gives us what we choose.
The more we choose our own wisdom, the more God will give us over to what we choose, our wisdom above His.
The nit picking and mockery will be reenforced, and in spite of how many degrees and Phd's one has, and how convinced one is of the rightness of personal wisdom and opinion, the greatest Wisdom will be evaded as God accepts the choices made to exclude Him.

[-Talbot-]

Why do I feel more powerful than god?
Is there something wrong with me?

[Theland]

Your medication maybe?

[johnny.5]

Gods wisdom
who's version should you believe ?

[Theland]

Your version, when prayerfully studying His Word and being led by the Holy Spirit.

[naomi24]

Theland, you’ve complained about others here failing to address the OP but you haven’t addressed it either. All you’ve done is preach – and that this thread can well do without.

[woofgang]

The poem is an attempt to answer the question "Why did God send his son just to one planet in the whole universe?"....I wish I could find it again. There is also a vintage short story about someone who has died and is travelling to heaven. They enjoy the journey through the cosmos so much that they take a detour and end up at the wrong entrance to heaven where the Angel won't let him in because its the wrong door. The angel asks him where he is from and he says "Earth" and the angel says that most planets are called earth by the people who live there...so the man thinks again and says "Its the Earth the Saviour saved" and the Angel's face softens but he points out that there are innumerable planets where that has happened and innummerable planets where it will happen. I thought it was by Rudyard Kipling but I can't find that either.

[10ClarionSt]

Dunno about any of that, but what is the dark area behind all the stars, galaxies, etc?