I heard a guy talk today on the relationship between Space, the universe and God. That wasn't the title, but its my sort of summery. He's a cosmologist so knows his stuff. It was very interesting.
But I thought of a question during his talk. Does someone born in Space (as I am sure we can't be too far away from) require forgiveness (from a Christian perspective)? Now the natural and impulsive answer is of course he does. But we're not here to be natural or impulsive, we're here to think.
Why do Christians believe we need forgiveness? Well, because of the first sin of Adam and Eve and what they call 'the fall' resulting in humanities decline. Whatever you believe about the creation story, most would agree that 'the fall' affected humanity. So my first question is actually Is Sin genetic? Again, i assume the easy answer here is no. Let's roll with that assumption; Sin is not genetic, it is not passed from one human to the next. I think the assumption is correct otherwise the right genetic 'mutation' might deem someone 'sinless'. So are we just covered in a blanket of sin?
I heard a wonderful argument concerning the Noah's arc once. The chap was addressing the question of how Noah managed to get every animal on an Arc considering the given dimensions for the Arc. He put forward a theory that, assuming that is was a regional flood, not every animal ACTUALLY had to be on board. The story of the Ark was relatively near the beginning of humanities ejection from the garden, and thus had not even come close to conquering the world, but only the middle East. With this in mind, only the animals which had been in contact with man's sin needed to be destroyed, not every animal. A polar bear for example needed no attention because as far as it was concerned man did not exist and therefore sin didn't either.
Now this may well be a theory loaded with holes, but it nevertheless contributed to my thought process that things could be affected by sin.
God created Earth. God created man. Man sinned. Now that seems fine, but what if, and obviously I do mean if, someone was not only born in Space, but billions of light years away, assuming God has allowed us the technology, are they still covered by sin? really?! Are you telling me that the effects of eating an apple and disobeying God just once has poisoned the entire universe?
My head hurts.
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isn't there somewhere in the Bible that says all creation groans because of sin? (I'd go look it up on Bible gateway but the connection means it'd take about half an hour). As the entire Universe is God's creation, I imagine that everything in it is tainted by sin?
Or maybe that part is not literal?
Yeah, that was brought to my attention, and i believe it in there somewhere. Still though, its pretty mental that that one sin can mess EVERYTHING up
Why is it so mental that one sin can mess everything up? One phone call can start a nuclear war. One kiss can end a marriage. One virus can ravage the world. If the thought behind that statement is, "It's unfair that their sin messes it up for me." then the question rises up - are you thinking that you would have done better in Adam's place?
if you mean "do you do better then Adam?" then no, i don't.
It is mental that one sin can mess everything up, just as it is mental that one phone call can start a nuclear war, one kiss can end a marriage and one virus can ravage the world. Simply listing other examples doesn't make it less mental. But if we must, then looking action to consequence ratio i think I can tell from that list which is greatest....
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