Why is the Universe so vast?

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The Universe is so vast because God gave it just enough matter so that an intelligent being capable of ensoulment (humanity) would emerge only once in its existence.

There is a battle over humanity between God and Lucifer whom Lucifer won, so he thought, at the emergence of the first ensouled man and woman, Adam and Eve. But God, in his infinite wisdom, became man himself through his only begotten Son to enable man to emerge as the victor over Lucifer in this battle, which occurs over human history. Ever human who lives and dies in Christ becomes a saint who joins Jesus and Mary and all the saints in that victory, and in the spoils, intimate nuptial union with the Blessed Trinity. Since humanity is immersed in time and generational, the battle must play out with each individual over human history.

God’s victory is definitive and singular. He does not have to keep defeating Lucifer with a succession of any other hypothesized evolving extraresterrstrial intelligent life. Therefore, the Earth is unique in all of the Universe. The conditions for the emergence of life are unique to the Earth. Expenditures for the search for extraterrestrial life are futile. Preservation of Earth’s unique environmental conditions is paramount.

To hold otherwise is tantamount to saying that God does not exist.
 
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The physical universe is practically non-ending and ever-expanding. We can’t even see a fraction of the galaxies that exist for millions and millions of miles.This leads me to ask several questions:
  1. In a universe so large, is it naive to think that Earth is the only planet with life?
  2. Is it required, theologically, to believe that Earth is the only planet with life?
  3. Could the God of our Faith be the same God for another people on another planet with a different faith?
  4. Could there be multiple Gods in the Universe: one for our World (God of Abraham) and others for other worlds?
  5. Has the Bible addressed these issues? If so, what does it say?
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  1. Nope. Bacteria could be out there somewhere.
  2. Nope.
  3. I guess so. If there are people there…
God is God of all creation. He isn’t limited by our planet.
  1. Nope. Not only does our Faith say there couldn’t be, but as St. Thomas Aquinas showed, it doesn’t make sense rationally either.
  2. The Bible has addressed 4 (The LORD is Lord alone, etc), and I suppose by extension 3.
 
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