In 1987 the movie Contact, starring Jodie Foster and Matthew McConaughay first aired in theatres. In that movie Jodie's character had asked her father about there being alien life out there? Her fathers response was, "It would be a lot of wasted space if there wasn't." That answer has stuck with me to this day. However, I have come to see it in a different light. One I want to share with you now.
God has created man to be an eternal being. God being infinite has no beginning and no end. Man being eternal has a beginning, but no end. If we took one man with a given life span of say 100yrs, the planet earth is plenty big enough for him. However, if we took that same man and gave him eternal life, planet earth suddenly becomes not so big. Now, lets take the current population of the earth right now, of almost 8 billion people, and say only one third of them are eternal. Approximately 2.7 billion. How big is the earth now? We may have a problem. But why stop there? Lets take everyone who has existed, is currently in existence, and those yet to exist. Again, lets only take a third of these just for the sake of argument. I'm guessing at even a third, that is going to be a countless number of people. I am no mathematician so I'll leave that up to them. That aside, do you see where I'm going with this?
I truly believe when God created the entirety of space, he did so with us in mind. The more we learn about space, the more never ending it appears to be. To a finite being such as us, in our current state, to grasp this is overwhelming. But, in an eternal state of being, space would be enough to keep us busy throughout. The never ending vastness of space and the unfathomable beauty it seems to hold within it, to me, is just another expression of God's love for us. "Look! I made all this just for you." Now, for God to create all that just for us to never get to experience, to me that is a lot of wasted space. I think to explore the entirety of space, would be to explore the entirety of God who is throughout the entirety of space. Which, as I said earlier, appears to be never ending.
God has created man to be an eternal being. God being infinite has no beginning and no end. Man being eternal has a beginning, but no end. If we took one man with a given life span of say 100yrs, the planet earth is plenty big enough for him. However, if we took that same man and gave him eternal life, planet earth suddenly becomes not so big. Now, lets take the current population of the earth right now, of almost 8 billion people, and say only one third of them are eternal. Approximately 2.7 billion. How big is the earth now? We may have a problem. But why stop there? Lets take everyone who has existed, is currently in existence, and those yet to exist. Again, lets only take a third of these just for the sake of argument. I'm guessing at even a third, that is going to be a countless number of people. I am no mathematician so I'll leave that up to them. That aside, do you see where I'm going with this?
I truly believe when God created the entirety of space, he did so with us in mind. The more we learn about space, the more never ending it appears to be. To a finite being such as us, in our current state, to grasp this is overwhelming. But, in an eternal state of being, space would be enough to keep us busy throughout. The never ending vastness of space and the unfathomable beauty it seems to hold within it, to me, is just another expression of God's love for us. "Look! I made all this just for you." Now, for God to create all that just for us to never get to experience, to me that is a lot of wasted space. I think to explore the entirety of space, would be to explore the entirety of God who is throughout the entirety of space. Which, as I said earlier, appears to be never ending.