Hmm. I wonder if my Sunday School teacher watched this show. The last few weeks he starts every lesson off with what the goal of God (and us) is “To fill the earth with the the loving character of God.”
But this morning he said - and by “the earth” - it means ALL of creation. So yes - missionaries on space ships!”
I didn’t ask him any details about that afterwards!
The Earth is enough, and its own story. There are many rooms in the mansion. This room is enough for me.
Should my neighbors visit and want to start a conversation, that’s another matter.
One interesting point raised in the movie Contact: A civilization advanced enough to pull off either interstellar travel or interdimensional travel may regard us at the same level as we humans might regard ants in an anthill.
Another at the table in that scene countered, “And we would give it another thought if we were to step on that anthill?”
Robert Baden Powell recognized that if an enemy had the humility to recognize a creator, something bigger than them that was responsible for their existence, then there was a hope that those to adversaries could find a common peace.
Where there was an enemy that saw their own people as being superior, there was no hope.
Here’s to our neighbors and their humility.
And just what illustrates that any better than...