Yep you quite got it. Human perception is ultimately flawed… That's why we can never truly be happy in this eath because to really appreciate something we need to have it contrast with its absence… However God is not a human (even when He assumes our Humanity He is not *merely* human)… The entire universe is nothing compared to His infinitude. He doesn't need the universe… THE UNIVERSE NEEDS HIM TO EXIST. This is why we say that God cares about every little one of us, even if from our perspective, any human can be switched with one another and why scriptures says that *his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.*
God is a maker and He made us in His image… So it makes sense that we are creator ourselves… With our own limitations however… He doesn't want us to "Play God' not because He might be jealous, but for our own safety… And we can already see the results of this.
My pastor focused on the fact that before the resurrection, Jesus' last words were "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" He made the suggestion that people, who believe in God but who are not Christian, are unwilling to accept the 'nearness' of God implied by such a human outburst, even though it is also true that this line is the first line of Psalm 22 as well.
So I have to ask, if we're talking about the vastness of the cosmos, and we aren't strictly confined to atheism/ just being agnostic, then isn't this whole question of the vastness of the cosmos just about how we imagine God, and not the humble man that God chose to be? Is the qualm about the size of the universe not therefore, about God's qualities, but rather about maintaining distance between yourself and Him?
When Isaiah came to Ahaz and asked the king to ask for a sign from God, Ahaz said "I will not ask, neither will I tempt the Lord" to which Isaiah replied "Is it a small thing to weary men, but will you weary my God also?" (Isaiah 7:11-13) Meaning that Ahaz was distancing himself from God by declining to ask for a sign out of false reverence, and Isaiah called him out for it. I think we have a similar problem with the "but the universe is so huge" agnostics. In the process you cannot be covenanted unto something that cares not a wit for you, so the agnostic gets out of the real duty of reverence to the Creator.
Brandon Edwards
I never understood why people seem to think that the size of anything has anything to do with anything else.
Dylan Rivera
I never understood this mindset. Not significant to whom? Lifeless space rocks? Nothing is significant to lifeless space rocks, so who cares.
Jonathan Clark
I guess the fullness of this thought is not that we are insignificant to lifeless space rocks but that we are equal in our mutual insignificance. That us and lifeless space rocks are just things that exist in this thing we call "the universe" and that there is no why.
Alexander Nelson
God is really all-powerful man. That's funny I study physics and we have never learned that nor its possible to do that with some mathematics or a lab. it's a philosophy supported by the meme pop scientists so they can sell their books. It's extremely flawed as you can see by reading some Stephen Hawking books. No surprise they say philosophy is dead because sane philosophy blows them out of the water. It's materialism under a disguise And again they have no proof of that. They just assume an axiom that is there's no supernatural. Like any axiom it cannot be proved, just like the axioms of geometry. We could have chosen those or others. So either believing in the supernatural or not has the same truth value. Christianity is proved by another means. How can I trust a method? How the winnie the pooh studying natural phenomena answer metaphysical questions? The second law of Newton tells me there's no god? Top kek. F=mass*accelaration hmmm this means God ain't real checkmate christcucks. Because like every philosophical system cannot be proved in a lab or even mathematics. Not even in a thought experiment. Its philosophy pure and simple, and I can choose to believe in wtv philosophical system I want. And I prefer to be with Aquinas than some failed physicists who need to make money.
Carson Peterson
Yet God made us in his image, the Mother of His Son is a human being and He Himself incarnated as a Man. Poor ayy lmaos they are second class citizens. There are only two rational beings. Angels and man.
Jose Perez
We dont interact with that scale, so its irrelevant. Its like getting cosmic dread from living in Siberia, or the Sahara. Yes, you cant see yourself from space, or have a noticeable influence on the environment, no matter how powerful you are, but thats not your priority in life. Its, at worst, a humbling reflection on the fragility and vanity of everything, a la Ecclesiastes.
Chase Smith
Ehh… a thing that humbles me: I look at the mighty kings that once lived. The pagan ones. The gurus. The "false prophets". People full of pride. I often wonder where they ended up when they died. Loe and behold, I am watching some random video about Hell on Youtube and I hear that person's name mentioned. It causes me to humble myself.
I am a firm believer of humility. Exalt yourself and you will be humbled…. humbled yourself and you will be exalted. Thank you Jesus.
