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Why did God create so many galaxies?

We Never Know

No Slack
No, I am talking about verifying things in the bible that CAN be verified.
We can't prove that God spoke to Solomon (other than when God made
prophecies that are born out in history) but we can prove there was a
king called Solomon.

Verify with evidence a god does exist. That's a good place to start.

Here's the thing..
If one thing in a quantum physics calculation is an error, everything past that error will/may be error too.

If one thing in our dating technic is an error, everything past that error will/may be error too.

If one thing in the bible is an error, everything after that error will/may be error too.

My point is if an error is made and then built on, that error will make everything down line possibly be an error as well.
 

PruePhillip

Well-Known Member
Verify with evidence a god does exist. That's a good place to start.

Here's the thing..
If one thing in a quantum physics calculation is an error, everything past that error will/may be error too.

If one thing in our dating technic is an error, everything past that error will/may be error too.

If one thing in the bible is an error, everything after that error will/may be error too.

My point is if an error is made and then built on, that error will make everything down line possibly be an error as well.

I understand your point - but the analogy is bad.
We get the dating of things badly wrong, but we understand that it could be wrong.
Early dating of the universe though was out by about 99% - and that's different.
The various stories in the bible are "discrete" - that is an error in one book shouldn't
effect another book, or what that particular book was trying to say.
I doubt there's error in the BROAD THEMES of the bible, ie love God, love your
fellow man. God has made a provision of the lamb for your sins - you are forgiven
so forgive others. And in sending the Messiah Jesus became that lamb for us.
 

PruePhillip

Well-Known Member
Correlation does not equal causation

I typed "archaelogy Solomon"
and got 2.6 million hits.
I am fine there's a King Solmon - he reigned at an interesting
time in history - the great empires of the Middle East had
declined, and Israel stepped into the vacuum, becoming a
great power.
 

Ayjaydee

Active Member
I typed "archaelogy Solomon"
and got 2.6 million hits.
I am fine there's a King Solmon - he reigned at an interesting
time in history - the great empires of the Middle East had
declined, and Israel stepped into the vacuum, becoming a
great power.
I didnt suggest otherwise
 

Peter Son

Member
I think because god wants to see how people when given different environment lives in it. Maybe he wanted people to be on different part of the world and live so no one planet gets overloaded!
 

roger1440

I do stuff
What was God's reason for creating so many galaxies and so many planets and stars that apparently serve no purpose and so many galaxies that are not inhabited by any creatures?
What caught my attention about this thread was the term "purpose". If anything at all has any purpose, the wisest of all questions would be to ask, "What is my purpose? Why am I? Why must I be?"
 

Ancient Soul

The Spiritual Universe
Part of the Personality of God (8 small pages):

"MAN was made in the image of God. “And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.” “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him.” Genesis 1:26, 27. See also chap. 9:6; 1 Corinthians 11:7. Those who deny the personality of God, say that “image” here does not mean physical form, but moral image, and they make this the grand starting point to prove the immortality of all men. The argument stands thus: First, man was made in God’s moral image. Second, God is an immortal being. Third, therefore all men are immortal. But this mode of reasoning would also prove man omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent, and thus clothe mortal man with all the attributes of the deity. Let us try it: First, man was made in God’s moral image. Second, God is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent. Third, therefore, man is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent. That which proves too much, proves nothing to the point, therefore the position that the image of God means his moral image, cannot be sustained. As proof that God is a person, read his own words to Moses: “And the Lord said, Behold there is a place by me, and thou shalt stand upon a rock; and it shall come to pass, while my glory passeth by, that I will put thee in a cleft of the rock, and will cover thee with my hand while I pass by. And I will take away mine hand and thou shalt see my back parts; but my face shall not be seen.” Exodus 33:21-23. See also chap. 24:9-11. Here God tells Moses that he shall see his form. To say that God made it appear to Moses that he saw his form, when he has no form, is charging God with adding to falsehood a sort of juggling deception upon his servant Moses.

But the skeptic thinks he sees a contradiction between verse 11, which says that the Lord spake unto Moses face to face, and verse 20, which states that Moses could not see his face. But let Numbers 12:5-8 remove the difficulty. “And the Lord came down in the pillar of the cloud, and stood in the door of the tabernacle, and called Aaron and Miriam, and they both came forth. And he said, Hear now my words. If there be a prophet among you, I, the Lord, will make myself known unto him in a vision, and will speak unto him in a dream. My servant Moses is not so, who is faithful in all mine house. With him will I speak mouth to mouth, even apparently.”

The great and dreadful God came down, wrapped in a cloud of glory. This cloud could be seen, but not the face which possesses more dazzling brightness than a thousand suns. Under these circumstances Moses was permitted to draw near and converse with God face to face, or mouth to mouth, even apparently.

Says the prophet Daniel, “I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of days did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the hairs of his head like the pure wool; his throne was like the fiery flame, and his wheels as burning fire.” Chap. 7:9. “I saw in the night visions, and, behold, one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought him near before him, and there was given him dominion and glory and a kingdom.” Verses 13, 14.

Here is a sublime description of the action of two personages; viz, God the Father, and his Son Jesus Christ. Deny their personality, and there is not a distinct idea in these quotations from Daniel. In connection with this quotation read the apostle’s declaration that the Son was in the express image of his Father’s person. “God, who at sundry times, and in divers manners, spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds; who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person.” Hebrews 1:1-3.

We here add the testimony of Christ. “And the Father himself which hath sent me, hath borne witness of me. Ye have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his shape.” John 5:37. See also Philippians 2:6. To say that the Father has not a personal shape, seems the most pointed contradiction of plain scripture terms. OBJECTION. - “God is a Spirit.” John 4:24.

ANSWER. - Angels are also spirits [Psalm 104:4], yet those that visited Abram and Lot, lay down, ate, and took hold of Lot’s hand. They were spirit beings. So is God a Spirit being.

OBJ. - God is everywhere. Proof. Psalm 139:1-8. He is as much in every place as in any one place.

ANS. - 1. God is everywhere by virtue of his omniscience, as will be seen by the very words of David referred to above. Verses 1-6. “O Lord, thou hast searched me, and known me. Thou knowest my down-sitting and mine uprising; thou understandest my thought afar off. Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways. For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O Lord, thou knowest it altogether. Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thy hand upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me. It is high; I cannot attain unto it.”

2. God is everywhere by virtue of his Spirit, which is his representative, and is manifested wherever he pleases, as will be seen by the very words the objector claims, referred to above. Verses 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.”

God is in heaven. This we are taught in the Lord’s prayer. “Our Father which art in heaven.” Matthew 6:9; Luke 11:2. But if God is as much in every place as he is in any one place, then heaven is also as much in every place as it is in any one place, and the idea of going to heaven is all a mistake. We are all in heaven; and the Lord’s prayer, according to this foggy theology simply means, Our Father which art everywhere, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth, as it is everywhere.

Again, Bible readers have believed that Enoch and Elijah were really taken up to God in heaven. But if God and heaven be as much in every place as in any one place, this is all a mistake. They were not translated. And all that is said about the chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and the attending whirlwind to take Elijah up into heaven, was a useless parade. They only evaporated, and a misty vapor passed through the entire universe. This is all of Enoch and Elijah that the mind can possibly grasp, admitting that God and heaven are no more in any one place than in every place. But it is said of Elijah that he “went up by a whirlwind into heaven.” 2 Kings 2:11. And of Enoch it is said that he “walked with God, and was not, for God took him.” Genesis 5:24.

Jesus is said to be on the right hand of the Majesty on high.” Hebrews 1:3. “So, then, after the Lord had spoken unto them he was received up into heaven, and sat on the right hand of God.” Mark 16:19. But if heaven be everywhere, and God everywhere, then Christ’s ascension up to heaven, at the Father’s right hand, simply means that he went everywhere! He was only taken up where the cloud hid him from the gaze of his disciples, and then evaporated and went everywhere! So that instead of the lovely Jesus, so beautifully described in both Testaments, we have only a sort of essence dispersed through the entire universe. And in harmony with this rarified theology, Christ’s second advent, or his return, would be the condensation of this essence to some locality, say the mount of Olivet! Christ arose from the dead with a physical form. “He is not here,” said the angel, “for he is risen as he said.” Matthew 28:6.

“And as they went to tell his disciples, behold, Jesus met them, saying, All hail! And they came and held him by the feet, and they worshiped him.” Verse 9.

“Behold my hands and my feet,” said Jesus to those who stood in doubt of his resurrection, “that it is I myself. Handle me and see, for a spirit hath not flesh and bones as ye see me have. And when he had thus spoken, he showed them his hands and his feet. And while they yet believed not for joy, and wondered, he said unto them, Have ye here any meat? And they gave him a piece of broiled fish, and of an honey-comb, and he took it and did eat before them.” Luke 24:39-43.

After Jesus addressed his disciples on the mount of Olivet, he was taken up from them, and a cloud received him out of their sight. “And while they looked steadfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold two men stood by them in white apparel, which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? This same Jesus which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.” Acts 1:9-11. J. W. ..."​

You can study the above conflicted gibberish thousands of times and still not get it right. The same for the rest of the bible.

THE GOD is purely spiritual in nature, and so it is our SOULS that where made in God's image. NOT the physical body, that is only an interface God created for our souls to be able to interact with the physical world. Again, THE GOD is NOT physical, but pure spiritual energy, so it is NOT our physical bodies that are in his image. Besides, one of the things God first explained to me when my soul was in the spiritual realm/Heaven, was that ALL living beings have a soul. And so he hardly could look like all of them, hypothetically speaking of course, even if he had a physical image.

When in a pure soul state of existence God had also shown me that it is a spherical mass of energy. And one of the first realizations I had, was that my thinking was coming from the very center of my being, and I could move my consciousness freely around within my soul. That's because one's soul is really the essence of who "they" really are, an invisible sphere of mind energy. And I later learned how to divide my consciousness into smaller points of consciousness to experience many things simultaneously.

So since our SOULS were created in his spiritual image, understanding it helps us understand THE GOD. Think of it as our souls being minuscule versions of God's vast and powerful soul. For God is the vast and all powerful soul that created the physical universe within himself, God. Which is why God is "everywhere", because both the physical and spiritual universes ARE the living God. And why God can continue to create, maintain, control, and divide his most powerful consciousness to as many other points of consciousness as needed to communicate and experience many things at one time.
 

Ancient Soul

The Spiritual Universe
What caught my attention about this thread was the term "purpose". If anything at all has any purpose, the wisest of all questions would be to ask, "What is my purpose? Why am I? Why must I be?"

I see from your profile that you are a Christian, you will never find the answers to those questions there.
 

Ancient Soul

The Spiritual Universe
Read in the Quran; Surah Al Anbiya: verse 30-33

If you are going to be referring to verses/passages of your religious doctrine on these forums, it would be wise to do a complete copy and paste of the verses/passages you want to use. It's more considerate than expecting everyone reading these posts to do lengthy searches on the Internet. Just saying.
 

arthra

Baha'i
What was God's reason for creating so many galaxies and so many planets and stars that apparently serve no purpose and so many galaxies that are not inhabited by any creatures?

Creation emanates from God and so there are countless worlds of which many are inhabited:

Know that it is one of the most abstruse spiritual truths that the world of existence, that is to say this endless universe, has no beginning. …

… Know that … a creator without a creature is impossible, a provider without those provided for cannot be conceived; for all the divine names and attributes demand the existence of beings. If we could imagine a time when no beings existed, this imagination would be the denial of the Divinity of God. Moreover, absolute non-existence cannot become existence. If the beings were absolutely non-existent, existence would not have come into being. Therefore, as the Essence of Unity, that is the existence of God, is everlasting and eternal—that is to say, it has neither beginning nor end—it is certain that this world of existence … has neither beginning nor end. … it may be that one of the parts of the universe, one of the globes, for example, may come into existence, or may be disintegrated, but the other endless globes are still existing. … As each globe has a beginning, necessarily it has an end, because every composition, collective or particular, must of necessity be decomposed; the only difference is that some are quickly decomposed, and others more slowly, but it is impossible that a composed thing should not eventually be decomposed
.—Some Answered Questions, pp. 209–210. 206

Bahá'í Reference Library - Bahá’u’lláh and the New Era, Pages 204-206
 

Thief

Rogue Theologian
What was God's reason for creating so many galaxies and so many planets and stars that apparently serve no purpose and so many galaxies that are not inhabited by any creatures?
He was playing with Himself

He was on a roll

and there was no One Else to stop Him
 

Twilight Hue

Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
What was God's reason for creating so many galaxies and so many planets and stars that apparently serve no purpose and so many galaxies that are not inhabited by any creatures?
Because evolution gave rise to human imagination.
 
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