God gave the Gospel 1500 years to get up to speed in the Eastern hemisphere of the globe.
Then another 500 years in the Americas.
Then, the moon was consecrated to Him, when Buzz Aldrin celebrated the Lord’s Supper as the first meal taken there.
The Martian sol is 37 minutes longer than an earth day. That’s a bit of a hint, IMHO.
After you.
I think if God wanted us to live on Mars he would have put us there. But hey if he allows us to make it there and figure out a way to live there then maybe just maybe its part of his plan for some of us. I dont think i will see it happen in my life time here on earth. Maybe we should start a topic asking “Will living on Mars save us from Gods wrath on Earth?” That maybe an interesting conversation. @Dr_S i dont know sometimes i wish he would visit someone like he did with Moses and tell us what he want us to do
Consider what God did for us on earth. We have liquid water, breathable air, and a magnetic field to protect us from solar radiation. If God has not similarly made provision on other planets, it is perhaps not his intention for us to live there.
Sorry, I could not stop laughing at this. Such a human response. Here is a garden, green land, fruit trees of every kind, unlimited supply of water, enjoy and be happy. Nah, I’m going to go over her and live in the desert.
Peter
Deserts cry out for the human touch, for joyous gardeners to care for them.
LOL, not the way I see it. What they do is scream, “I have no water, food, shade or shelter for you – I just wanna be left alone – you pesky kids get on outta here!”
I “foresee” us putting a colony of robots (with ai) there before we ever make a serious try to get humans there. Look at the Artimis II mission, with several exploratory trips around the moon??? – (My inner skeptic begs to ask: Why the need to scope it out if we have really already been there? Hmm? #moonlandinghoax) – Right now we have a mars rover on the moon that has sent tons of photos (and a few selfies) back to earth of the red planet, nice, but why not send something truly constructive, like insects, mice, plants, water, and some other basics to test to see how the environment of mars affects them within an enclosed habitat environment? I think they don’t because they are not serious about humans going. They have, however, tested mars soil and rock to see what valuable elements could be mined… So that should show you where their plans lie. Robots can mine, why send humans?
Why climb Mount Everest?
Yes, why? They are not mining it and there is nothing there apparently useful, and we’ve been there before. People climb to brag, or for sense of self accomplishment. No Biblical reason what-so-ever that I see. I would be impressed if they built a humanoid robot that could climb it though.
However, there are metals, minerals and mining possibilites on the moon and mars. Plus, as far as I know, less people die going into space than they do climbing Everest and other mountains. (Do most accidents not happen close to home? This should prove true with space travel too don’t you think?)
No I dont believe we are meant to live anywhere but earth.
If we constrict ourselves to this one globe, we’ll get awfully bored in another few centuries!
I don’t think that God will allow us to get loose in the solar system. Not that man couldn’t eventually figure it out how, but we don’t have enough time before the end to do that. Elon isn’t quite as smart as people think he is.
Maybe the solar system was originally designed to be our playground, but we could fly then and not now.
Eschatology matters. As a radio host used to say, “What’s the point, Caller? Get the point!” What is the point of our lives? What does God equip us to do, and call us to do?
Postmillennialism gives us the MIDDLE distance, the centuries between HERE and THERE. This fallen world is not the preparation for the real event, but a real event in its own right, the place where we grow in faith by obediently exercising dominion. Stewarding what has been given us, and leaving the improvements for generations yet unborn.
A faith that focuses on the middle distance, that which we can hope to achieve in the next three centuries with the one life we are given, is more likely to leave a legacy of long-term faithfulness. Absent that perspective, we risk seeing our life’s work squandered by a Jerry Falwell, Jr.
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(1) In programming argot, a sandbox is an isolated computer system, carefully separated from the real system in the real world where real work gets really done. You use a sandbox for developing and testing new software. But the goal is to eventually put that new software to work.