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Debate: Is space exploration contrary to God's will? (view source)
Revision as of 19:47, December 31, 2012
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[[User:PatrickMarion|PatrickMarion]] 14:36, 31 December 2012 (EST)PatrickMarion
[[User:PatrickMarion|PatrickMarion]] 14:36, 31 December 2012 (EST)PatrickMarion
Patrick, it's very difficult to say what people's motivations are, and certainly what God's reasoning may be. All we can say for certain about the Tower is that humans attempting to reach heaven was displeasing to God; we cannot say for certain whether it was displeasing to him because they were attempting to reach the spiritual heaven. Nor can we say whether everyone involved in the space program has a motivation different from those who built the Tower. What we can say is that He found a physical attempt to reach the heavens displeasing--and space travel is a physical attempt to reach the heavens.
Nor, I think, can you reasonably compare sea exploration, as the sea is part of the dominion explicitly granted to man in the Bible. Man was given dominion over the fish of the sea, and by extension, over the sea. By that same token, those who object that travel by airplane would be objectionable to God are not taking the boundaries of the dominion into account. We are also given dominion over the birds of the air; thus we may conclude that travel through the air, at least as high as birds can fly, is permissible.
Space, however, is not "the air," and no such mandate of dominion is granted with respect to space. As I pointed out above, Psalm 115:6 says that earth belongs to man, but heaven and the heavens (note the repetition there!) are Gods. As for the idea that space exploration is done without the intent to defy God--is defiance of God's strictures morally acceptable if it's done through ignorance? We accept the precept that ignorance of the law is no excuse; is ignorance of God's Law an excuse?
--[[User:Benp|Benp]] 14:47, 31 December 2012 (EST)
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