Remind me again of the Bible verse where God commanded us to go out and make pretty things for Him?
Something beautiful for God. I think Mother Theresa said that. Frankly, God doesn’t have to write everything down for me to know he loves beauty. Truth and beauty, in fact!
What I find amusing is that the more you guys write about “idolatry” the more you sound like that good Catholic, Savonarola.
Eventually -- it will all be burned up in a fervent heat, right?
There won't be any baubles left for any of us to gaze upon. Nor (I imagine) would we need or desire too either, if we be with Him, and have Him for "light" while in presence of the Holiness which is His very "nature" (using "nature" here for lack of a better term).
But in the meantime, most now living, pretty much seem to need this planet we are presently living on. So we get distracted and gaze at baubles, sometimes..?
...in that meantime, before this "fervent heat" it could be hoped one of those wandering black holes doesn't get to close? Though one of those might be seen from an earth perspective to roll up the heavens as a scroll, if that passage need be understood as to relating to visible "universe", and not have something otherwise more fundamental even than that, which 'science' has yet to gain some grasp of.
Though as to this "meantime" (while we on this earth, await?) I confess to being more concerned with comets disturbing Jupiter and Saturn's titans enough, along with other asteroids, to have put (some of) them on a collision course with this planet, or having done so in times past --- having us be cruising for a bruising, but scarcely knowing it. Astronomers do occasionally catch sight of some good sized objects passing quite "close" to us.
The velocity we are traveling in orbit is tremendous. The velocity of our entire "orbit" as it were, as that is moving along with the Sun itself, is a bit more difficult to calculate? Add potential movement of the mass of the Milky Way galaxy itself in relation to other galaxies (or even inter-galactic "dusts") and we are boogy-ing right along.
A few space rocks could ruin an entire day...