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Debate: Is space exploration contrary to God's will? (view source)
Revision as of 19:36, December 31, 2012
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--[[User:Benp|Benp]] 13:08, 31 December 2012 (EST)
--[[User:Benp|Benp]] 13:08, 31 December 2012 (EST)
'''Not sure if there is enough evidence to say it is contrary'''
To my knowledge, the only times the God has explicitly hammered any type of knowledge seeking as sinful, evil, or antithetical to His will, it was when the knowledge seeking was because of the vocation of a sinful act. The Tower Of Babel, which was built by arrogant humans seeking access to Heaven (as if it were a physically accessible realm coexistant to the Earth and the rest of the material universe) was an evil act because of the intent was Man trying to become like God, so they were punished for the arrogant presumption they could pull that off. The actual building of the Tower itself was harmless, as they merely could not complete it when the builders were stricken with a confusion of tongues.
Had the mere act of building the Tower been evil in and of itself, it would have been outright destroyed by God, but only the builders were punished because of their intentions. The structure could have been made for any number of benign purposes and was thus a neutral party in the commission of an evil act, much like a weapon is inherently harmless unless used or abused due to evil, incompetence, or madness.
As applied to exploring space, the same could be said of underwater exploration. We were not meant to live underwater, but God has never issued any law against the exploration of the waters anywhere in Scripture, so if the act itself is not evil and the intent is merely to understand more about the area below the surface of the water (which does not run counter to any of God's laws to my knowledge), then the exploration of space should also be considered harmless as long as the intent is not one to commit evil with that act.
When a man set foot on the Moon, it was merely to prove that Man could put a foot on an extraterrestrial body, not, to my knowledge, done as an attempt to defy any limitation set down by God, so I would consider such an act harmless in a moral sense as long as the intent is not in contravention of His will.
[[User:PatrickMarion|PatrickMarion]] 14:36, 31 December 2012 (EST)PatrickMarion
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