Actually them’s the facts, not a perspective. Everything in Genesis was created from the perspective of Earth.
“But if you take the Genesis view that the stars weren't created until Earth's 3rd day” which I do not.
One could say also that Earth couldn't ‘see’ stars until the 3rd day. (Another interpretation of an interpretation etc.).
“implying that everything else in the Universe was for the benefit of earth”
Implies nothing about Earth's benefit - that statement is an interpretation.
“Then billions of galaxies each full of billions of stars is simply a reminder of how powerful our God really is.”
Oh come on! That is just hubris on the interpreter’s part, who just cannot conceive that intelligent life exists elsewhere - the same crowd that thought there could not possibly be water on any planet other than Earth, or that stars were anything other than small night sky lights.
To say that G_d was so limited as to only be able to create on all those zillion trillion planets one intelligent life form (us) - which is arguably in doubt - is to limit G_d to near insignificance - no wonder that Islam grows so fast.
If you read my posts, I've never said that intelligent life can't exist elsewhere. I've said it's entirely possible and scripture doesn't say.
But I also made the case that the universe's start and end in scripture appears tied to human history. You've already rejected the start as being an "interpretation of an interpretation". Do you do the same with the end?
Isaiah, Peter and John all tell us the heavens and the earth will melt and be created new. Coincidently, this occurs at the end of the 1000 year reign of Christ. The universe's end appears tied to human history.
2Pe 3:10 ¶ But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. 2Pe 3:11 [Seeing] then [that] all these things shall be dissolved, what manner [of persons] ought ye to be in [all] holy conversation and godliness, 2Pe 3:12 Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat? 2Pe 3:13 Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness."
Rev 21:1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.
Isa 34:4 And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll: and all their host shall fall down, as the leaf falleth off from the vine, and as a falling [fig] from the fig tree.
Could God have created other life and coordinated their history with ours, so that they all end at the same time prior to the new heavens? Sure. But it's also entirely possible that God created billions of galaxies for the sure art of it or for any other number of reasons and I don't view that as hubris.
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