I grew up with quite a few believers who believed space exploration was sinful- and flaunting the home of God. Later, as a young adult, I heard people almost gleeful about the Challenger tragedy, punishment for invading the universe.
Is NASA or private space exploration poking our noses were God doesn’t want them?
God dwells in inner space, not outer space.
If God didn’t want man to investigate his creation why is it that science has only flourished under Christianity.
An AiG aeronautical engineer gives his reasons why it is permissible:Should Christians Support Space Exploration? | Answers in Genesis
Space, like any other physical plane, is for human being’s curiosity and pleasure to discover. All of earth, above and below, are physical things we can touch and see, put here by God for us.
Heaven exists in a far higher and different plane than man can reach. To think we can invade it likens the thought that the ancient people had when they built the tower of bable. We know now they could never reach heaven, but it was the thought of it that they were punished for.
We can no more “invade God’s space” by aeronautics than we can “invade hell” by drilling into the earth.
The dear Lord has placed all of nature to satisfy man’s increasing curiosity until we see Him face to face.
Hi,
God is omnipresent.
So wherever there is an is, earth, space, the universe, beyond the universe, God is there.
This is what David and Jeremiah told us:
Psalms 139:7-10 Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence?
If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there.
If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;
Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me. KJV
Jeremiah 23:23-24 Am I a God at hand, saith the LORD, and not a God afar off?
Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the LORD. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the LORD. KJV
So, we are not going to find a place where God is not there.
One final thought.
God gave us the resources necessary to explore.
Are we not honoring God by our exploration?
Blessings
Of corse not. Where in the Bible can that nonsense be found?
I wonder how space exploration serves God, or the Christian Faith, in any way. Has NASA done anything at all that serves God?
Hmm. Just curious. I don’t know the answers.
How does anything we do serves God?
The idea of space being off limits is a very old one, and not limited to Christianity.
The fall of the tower of Babel speaks of man going too high off the ground.
Native American tribes hold this view.
I think it is safe to say Someone or Something does not want us in space when you have that strong of a sentiment.
But cheering a disaster makes me think those people are bankrupt of decency.
God does count some places as Sacred according to scripture. Entering is restricted to certain people, and ritual must be observed.
If done with tbe right attitude space exploration does what washing the dishes, or doing a shift in a factory does, it glorifies God.
Hi,
Nobody has said it yet, but what sin does space exploration commit?
Plus even now we are at the point that man does not have to go to Mars.
Curiosity and Perseverance are exploring for us.
The James Webb and the Hubble space telescopes are exploring as well.
God put all that interesting stuff out there to make us curious
God gave us the intelligence to figure out how to get there
So we owe it to God " . . . to boldly go. . . "
Blessings
I have followed the Axiom 4 mission that just splashed down from visiting the ISS. It was one of the new commercial flights Commercial Space - NASA This sort of trip is becoming regular and made me wonder about this topic and whether we belong up there.
The first meal taken on the moon was the Lord’s Supper. Buzz Aldrin describes the scene: “I poured the wine into the chalice our church had given me. In the one-sixth gravity of the moon the wine curled slowly and gracefully up the side of the cup,” he later wrote. Then, Aldrin read some scripture and ate.
The moon is a consecrated orb, and God has plans for us in that chunk of His creation.
The Martian sol is 38 minutes longer than an earth day. Ah. Time to sleep in a little later! God obviously intends for us to live there. That desert landscape looks so lonely, so desolate, so in need of hands-on stewardship.
Hi,
Why did God give us the resources to go to space If He did not want us to try ?
I ask again, what sin are we committing?
You know there probably were flat earth believers who opposed Columbus and the rest of the explorers.
Were the explorers wrong ?
Do you believe that exploring Mars with the two rovers is wrong as well?
Genesis 1:28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. N
KJV
What are the boundaries of “dominion”?"
Is it just the earth?
We know God has given us the ability to go farther.
Do we take this talent and bury it; or we try to go to Mars.
I believe we are honoring God’s command when we explore.
I am just sad because I probably won’t live long enough to see it happen.
Blessings