The very long perspective

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Glenn Jacobs / 130 N. Poverty Flat / Box 954 / Eagar, Arizona 85925 / 928-333-3517
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The really B – I – G picture

Letter to the editor;

This Earth orbits a star and receives life-giving light and heat from it.

There are thousands of millions of stars in this galaxy.

There are thousands of millions of other galaxies.

Each galaxy is neatly arranged to orbit around its own center.

The many galaxies “fall” away from each other so that they will never collide.

Any number of stars may be accompanied by planets. Any number of those planets may be habitable.

Either the Eternal King of Creation made all of those objects just to be passing the time, or He made them with a purpose.

Since the purpose of this planet is to provide spirits with a place to enjoy mortality, it may well be that untold millions (or perhaps even thousands of millions) of planets are, at any given time, not only habitable -- but inhabited.

Since the Lord G-d saw fit to create us in His image on this planet, it may well be that He would create man in His image on each suitable planet.

And why would He do this? For His own Glory, that's why!

Every religious person should form, within his or her own theology, a unified Plan of Salvation that includes not only this planet, but any number of planets that G-d has created, beatified, sanctified and made into homes for His children. (Atheists don’t need to bother with this issue.)

(Planets do not accidentally become habitable. It takes many miracles, over millions of years, to bring a proto-planet of molten iron to the condition of being able to hold oceans and atmosphere, make topsoil, grow grass and trees, and support ants and plankton, to say nothing of sharks, bears and human beings.)

Glenn Jacobs
Eagar, Arizona