What is the purpose of the universe?

[Christ the King]

Let's first look at the scale of the universe.. I'll be using scientific e notation (with the real number in brackets)

Compared to a human the earth is massive. It's 3.5e9 times larger than a human. (3,500,000,000)

Our solar system is 3.6e10 larger than earth. (36,000,000,000)

But then there is our galaxy, the Milky way. It dwarfs our solar system by a factor of 4.12e24. (4,120,000,000,000,000,000,000,000)
And while our sun is the closest star to earth there are another 4e11 of them in our galaxy. (400,000,000,000)

For the known universe however there are 2e12 other galaxies. (2,000,000,000,000)
Each of those galaxies has an estimated average of 3e11 stars. (300,000,000,000)
That means the observable universe has about 6e22 stars. (600,000,000,000,000,000,000,000)

In terms of size the Milky Way has a diameter of 200,000 light years.
Sounds small? Well 1 lightyear is 9.461e12 km's. (9,461,000,000,000 km's)

The universe however is a staggering 9.3e10 light years in diameter (93,000,000,000).
And that is only the "observable" universe, the "known" universe.
God only knows how big it truly is.

When working with these kind of numbers it's impossible to get a true understanding of it's scale
This short video helps us with that

So I wonder about all that empty space and matter. What is the purpose of it all.
It seems we only really need the earth, sun and moon to survive. Why then would God bother with all this space?

An analogy would be building countless high rise offices to only use one single office.
It makes no sense. The universe make no sense

Could the universe be so complicated that it requires all that space, matter, forces, energy, gravity, etc to be all in sync, in harmony?
Remove a star and the universe explodes. Or remove a different star and the universe implodes.

What do u guys think?
Why did God build the universe?
What is it's purpose?

 

[Who Me]

Why did God build the universe?
What is it's purpose?

To show the glory of God and how lavish his love for us is.

 

[Christ the King]

To show the glory of God

Ye ive heard that one but really, you build a gazillion rooms and use only one just to show off to the people in that one room. There is countless ways that God can and does show his glory without wasting his time building nothing

and how lavish his love for us is.

Again I don't see the connection between building the universe and love for us

 

[jasonc]

Ye ive heard that one but really, you build a gazillion rooms and use only one just to show off to the people in that one room. There is countless ways that God can and does show his glory without wasting his time building nothing



Again I don't see the connection between building the universe and love for us

Why Jesus?he could have just,ask ,its no need for death to have forgiven .

Why curse creation?

We will never know ,and to humble man

 

[jasonc]

Whenever men build ,it its ornate usually its vanity .

The bar code house,22 rooms ,22 bathrooms,2 people lived in it

 

[Christ the King]

Why Jesus?he could have just,ask ,its no need for death to have forgiven .

Why curse creation?

We will never know ,and to humble man

This is what i believe that mankind doesn't have the mind power to comprehend its existence.
I still like to speculate and hear other people speculations

 

[jasonc]

This is what i believe that mankind doesn't have the mind power to comprehend its existence.
I still like to speculate and hear other people speculations

We will never understand it,sometimes the beauty seen can't be explained just appreciated .

 

[for_his_glory]

Genesis 1:31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good.

No one can fathom the vast universe as like God being Alpha and Omega so is that which He created for His good pleasure. No one can reason God, but to only accept that all God created was good and pleasing to Him.

 

[daninthelionsden]

Genesis 1:31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good.

No one can fathom the vast universe as like God being Alpha and Omega so is that which He created for His good pleasure. No one can reason God, but to only accept that all God created was good and pleasing to Him.

I have to paraphrase again "To do His will and for His good pleasure." That's what I got years(decades) ago when I asked in utter frustration "Why? Why Lord? What is the meaning of all this?"

 

[Who Me]

Ye ive heard that one but really, you build a gazillion rooms and use only one just to show off to the people in that one room. There is countless ways that God can and does show his glory without wasting his time building nothing

And you have never been head over heels in love , doing extravagant things for your beloved have you.

Look around you, oh get a book on plants and look around you.
How many types of plants can you identify?
How many trees?

Ever thought why did God creat so many different types of annual flowers?
Ditto every living thing?

Why isn't vthere a tree for temperate regions, a tree for tropical regions etc and the same for all other plants.
Why are there so many types of animals?

God is lavish in his creation and bountiful in how he gives to us.


There is also a practical side to creation.
We cannot measure how big the universe is, yet it is God's creation. No matter how fast it is it is not bigger than our God.
God also uses his creation, not everything is the result of a miracle, the reactions he cause in creation also have functions, like stars and supernovas make chemicals etc, they weren't necessary for creation just to explain how things are made.
Other elements like the outer planets serve to protect earth from being bombarded by meteors etc.




Again I don't see the connection between building the universe and love for us