Why so many planets?

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hello everyone,
can anyone hazard a guess as to why God made so many planets?. As there is as yet no definite proof that we have neighbours in space why would He want so many?.I look forward to some interesting replies!
God Bless,
Mick.
 
As Marty has pointed out, we will never know for sure until the end of time. to my mind though there are several possible answers.
  1. The human race might need room to expand. If we really are to continue God’s command to “be fruitful and multiply” then one day we are going to need to move off of Earth.
  2. God, in his infinite goodness, might have created brothers for us and needed some place to put them.
  3. It is possible that for the Earth he wanted us to live in, that the Universe we live in was necessary.
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It’s just a necessary result dictated by the design parameters of the project. For design parameters see the specifications sheet filed with Celestial Designs, Inc., God, Chief Engineer and Project Manager.

Matthew
 
As one scientist put it:

A reason for the other planets in our system is mindblowing. The planets farther from the sun than earth, are there to shield earth from most asteoids/meteors, and acts protectively. If Earth were .01% off it’s orbit, we’d go flying off into space, or be incinerated in the sun. Conincidence? I think not. God’s plan.👍
 
5pintLutheran said:
As one scientist put it:

A reason for the other planets in our system is mindblowing. The planets farther from the sun than earth, are there to shield earth from most asteoids/meteors, and acts protectively. If Earth were .01% off it’s orbit, we’d go flying off into space, or be incinerated in the sun. Conincidence? I think not. God’s plan.👍
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Yes, I’ve heard that. The large planets act as gravitational vacuums to suck up most of the garbage. And then there’s also the sheer “God is knowable through his creation” aspect.
 
There are so many reasons that we don’t know yet, but at least:
  • He could use the vast of the university to help us have some idea of His Mercy and Love for us.
  • Through mystery of the universe, some come to believe in God.
 
english_guy said:
hello everyone,
can anyone hazard a guess as to why God made so many planets?. As there is as yet no definite proof that we have neighbours in space why would He want so many?.I look forward to some interesting replies!
God Bless,
Mick.
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Mick, what came to my mind was that He also made lots of flowers, but not many have Whos living on them. 😉
 
I have always thought of it the same way I think of why God created the hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of different types of animals, insects, plants, etc. here on earth. God is infinitely creative. In his great love for us, he has made all of these different types of animals and planets and galaxies to give us something to study and marvel at so that we may be in awe of something outside of ourselves.

It helps us to realize that we are not the center of the universe! 😉
 
simply to demonstrate the glory of God.

Romans tells us the whole of creation was effected by Adams sin, thus if there were people on other planets Christ would have to die for them too. Thus it would be possible for God to show them by special revelation what Christ did on earth.
 
We are to have a “new heavens and a new earth” at the end of time, and we go on for eternity, the more places to visit the merrier.
 
A reason for the other planets in our system is mindblowing. The planets farther from the sun than earth, are there to shield earth from most asteoids/meteors, and acts protectively. If Earth were .01% off it’s orbit, we’d go flying off into space, or be incinerated in the sun. Conincidence? I think not.
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Actually, the Earth’s distance from the Sun varies by millions of miles over a single year, and by considerably more than that over longer periods of time. Fortunately, such small deviations ( a few percent) don’t matter very much.
 
This is a good question, what marvels have we yet to discover within all of these planetary bodies. Look at the utter amazement we have only recently discovered with the hubble telescope. I think if we are able to one day travel to them, God may reveal things we cannot possibly imagine now. As they say in the original Star Trek, it is the final frontier.
 
So we wouldn’t get bored maybe? somethin for us to do, perhaps. Studying the universe takes a long time of study, that said, we won’t get bored for centuries. Or for all we know, we could start using the stuff we find as some sort of cool new resource…I dunno.
 
Maybe the first one was so much fun that He just had to do another, and another, and another… The astrophysicists tell us He’s still at it! Maybe that odd sound you hear somewhere in the back of your mind is the echo of the delighted laughter of God as yet another world comes to birth.

Matthew
 
english_guy said:
hello everyone,
can anyone hazard a guess as to why God made so many planets?. As there is as yet no definite proof that we have neighbours in space why would He want so many?.I look forward to some interesting replies!
God Bless,
Mick.
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We are discovering so many new planets. Is it possible that at least one other (and perhaps more) is the right size and makeup and orbits at the proper distance for intelligent life to exist?

If life does exist on other planets, here’s what I wonder about:

Romans 6:9-10 We know that Christ, raised from the dead, dies no more; death no longer has power over him. As to his death, he died to sin once and for all; as to his life, he lives for God.

Christ died once and rose once for all. All implies ALL, regardless of planetary origin. ONCE FOR ALL implies that Christ didn’t have to go through the ordeal again in every little town, village, oort cloud, asteroid belt, solar system… And our little planet just happened to be chosen as the place where the resurrection would happen.

Were we just lucky enough to witness it, leaving all the other planets in the universe housing intelligent life to have to take the resurrection on faith alone? Or is our little planet just so depraved that we were the only ones who needed it rubbed in our faces?

Or maybe Paul was just speaking out of his myopically limited one-world-view when he wrote his Letter to the Romans.
 
It’s a test of faith, so God knows who His chosen are–those who still consider Pluto a planet.
 
Nan_S said:
We are discovering so many new planets. Is it possible that at least one other (and perhaps more) is the right size and makeup and orbits at the proper distance for intelligent life to exist?

If life does exist on other planets, here’s what I wonder about:

Romans 6:9-10 We know that Christ, raised from the dead, dies no more; death no longer has power over him. As to his death, he died to sin once and for all; as to his life, he lives for God.

Christ died once and rose once for all. All implies ALL, regardless of planetary origin. ONCE FOR ALL implies that Christ didn’t have to go through the ordeal again in every little town, village, oort cloud, asteroid belt, solar system… And our little planet just happened to be chosen as the place where the resurrection would happen.

Were we just lucky enough to witness it, leaving all the other planets in the universe housing intelligent life to have to take the resurrection on faith alone? Or is our little planet just so depraved that we were the only ones who needed it rubbed in our faces?

Or maybe Paul was just speaking out of his myopically limited one-world-view when he wrote his Letter to the Romans.
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This is just former Catholic boy talking here. But some Saints where able to be at two places at once. Maybe Christ was born, lived, suffered, died and was reborn on every planet at the same time?
 
God already has his hobbies, one of them the mind of man, he carees deeply for them!!! It is trivialzing them as that though’!
 
I’ve often wondered about this. As a fundamentalist I believed we, only we are the only life in the universe. Now as I re-think this, I realize God must have some wonderful plans for us.
 
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