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To: Hebrews 11:6
That Hubble photo of galaxies...always makes me think...

If you counted one number per second, how long would it take you to count to 1 million?

11 days, counting 24 hrs. a day.

How long to count to 1 billion?

30 years!

A trillion? = 30,000 years!

The immensity of God's creation is imponderable! (Not that poets, artists, writers and thinkers throughout the ages haven't stopped trying!)

I believe there are other created beings. Beings who didn't fall to temptation and sin...we are the only ones in His creation who fell into sin and we are being watched...as His plan for the universe unfolds before their wondering senses.

Heb 1:2 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;
Heb 11:3 Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.

Worlds, plural, more than one. Then:

Isa 45:18 For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the LORD; and there is none else.

I don’t think He created the other worlds in vain either – he formed them to be inhabited as well.

17 posted on 12/11/2020 8:02:15 AM PST by spankalib
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To: spankalib
Often I use this analogy to help people really grasp what a billion is: when you're thirty years old, your heart has beat a billion times. I'm now at 2.35 billion (2.35x109), and it's wearing out....

I believe there are other created beings. Beings who didn't fall to temptation and sin

Then you would find fascination in CS Lewis' Space Trilogy. The middle book, Perelandra, describes Satan's temptation of Venus's Eve. Rather than the Bible's brief two-paragraph report of our Eve's temptation, Lewis conjures TWENTY PAGES of Satan's arguments and Eve's responses. It is easily the best writing I have encountered this side of Romans, and his biographer said Lewis considered it his very best book (although his "favorite" was the sequel, That Hideous Strength).

19 posted on 12/11/2020 8:36:06 AM PST by Hebrews 11:6 (Do you REALLY believe that (1) God IS, and (2) God IS GOOD? Then SEEK HIM!)
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