Afterlife (Endings)

by BBella , Monday, January 21, 2013, 05:24 (4323 days ago) @ Balance_Maintained

bbella: there is nothing I can imagine having any value eternally (said with a mortal mind). But that is the very reason why I can imagine endless places created to visit with just as much variety, 
 
>Tony: I often wondered why the need to create billions and billions of galaxies and stars, and only put life on one. What you two have discussed here was actually part of my own conclusion to that. Speaking from my perspective, if the original order was to go forth and fill the earth, subduing it, then that gives us a sort of mission...With such a vast array of worlds, it would stand to reason that the same mission could been extended to include the universe, and perhaps would have, had it not been interrupted....This might also be the solution to one of DHW's quandaries regarding the population of the planet after the resurrection. But then, it is only speculation. There is not any kind of evidence to support that other than the sheer vastness of creation. God is a purposeful entity, I can not envision Him creating such vastness for no reason, not when absolutely every particle that we have ever encountered is chocked full of purpose and direction. Nothing exists just to exist, at least not that I have ever heard tale of. Generally, it is a case of us not understanding the reason at the time.-Tony, the last church I attended (a 13 year stint) taught that the whole of creation is waiting for the first fruits, or "sons of glory" that are being birthed from the earth (thru regeneration), to become rulers over the material creation. They taught, there are rulers over the unseen/immaterial creation and will be rulers over the seen/material creation, but have yet to be manifested from the material world - which is suppose to begin at Christ's return.