Have not read the book, but seen the movie:Better question, knowing YOU....why did He create YOU?
Actually it is Easy.............That is what He wanted to do!!!
God is a multitasker and He created trillions upon trillions of barren planets and galaxies for more than one reason, but I will give two reasons right off the top of my head
There is a preponderance of evidence for the existence of God and ALL of that evidence is revealed in the Bible. Listen to Hugh Ross on YouTube if science is your thing. Hugh Ross is a Canadian astrophysicist who teaches and lectures all over the world.
- The cosmological constant is fine-tuned to nearly 30 decimal points. In other words with just slightly more mass in the universe all matter would have expanded too fast for there to be stars, planets and galaxies. If there were a little less mass in the universe all matter would collapse prematurely and there would be no stars, planets or galaxies. In more other words, there is just the right amount of mass in the universe and every heavenly body is a part of that equation.
- Another reason God created an entire universe and placed us at the outer edge in a seemingly random location is that life is a place of testing. What better way to reveal the true character of sentient beings than to let them live out their lives with only a preponderance of evidence for God's existence rather than incontestable, visual, auditory and tactile evidence. That is a lot of fancy words I had to look up!
Another fascinating guy to listen to is the Cambridge mathematician, John Lennox.
A great book to read would be, The Case for Christ, by Lee Strobel. Strobel was an atheist news reporter who set out to disprove Christianity and upon studying the evidence became a Christian.
Preponderance is ponderous. It does not jump up at you... You have to go about it like a forensic scientist, actually looking through microscopes and looking under rocks. The problem is that most people in this microwave world are not willing to discover God and become bored quickly. “What? Cosmological constant?
What else is on the internet? Oh look, Mabel, America's Got Talent has another dancing dog act…”
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