From our perspective the start of God's Kingdom is our end destination. It's like the end all goal. But there's probably way more beyond that than we could comprehend now. To Jah, once all this is behind us, that's when he can finally carry out his original purpose. None of this was ever supposed to happen. Had Adam and Eve never sinned God could have revealed much more to humanity than he could with us. Maybe the tree of the knowledge of good and evil had a purpose beyond just testing humans. There could have been a whole other chapter to that story that God wasn't able to get to. Since humans failed that initial phase, his plans were put on hold. Our loose understanding of events lead up to just after the reign of Christ. We have no idea what comes after that. 1,000 years really isn't that long, especially when weighed against an eternity. I am certain we will still face challenges. They just won't be the same kind of stuff we deal with today. Challenges aren't always bad.
From his perspective, and should have been ours, God's Kingdom is the beginning of all.
We're going to need a bigger boat then:
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How Many People Have Ever Lived on Earth?
The global population milestone of 8 billion people represents nearly 7% of the total number of people who have ever lived on Earth.
Conservative estimates are around 100 billion people have lived on earth. So planetary exploration and expansion could be on the menu.
Any space travel probably won't be in spaceships though. Speed of light limitations and all that... Think stargates...
Portals would certainly be the most convenient approach.We're going to need a bigger boat then:
How Many People Have Ever Lived on Earth?
The global population milestone of 8 billion people represents nearly 7% of the total number of people who have ever lived on Earth.
Conservative estimates are around 100 billion people have lived on earth. So planetary exploration and expansion could be on the menu.
Any space travel probably won't be in spaceships though. Speed of light limitations and all that... Think stargates...
FTL might very well be possible maybe not with a steady linear aceleration but jumps to golden ratio multiples of the speed of light like instantaneous gear shifts
"FTL" in this context he is likely talking about warping physical dimensions and time to go from one place to another at a far, far shorter time because with Warp the actual distance travelled is far less than otherwise.
Even if we could travel faster than light, it would still impact time, right? Since time and space are related, or maybe traveling faster than light would override time dilation. I don't know enough to say. There are people who suggest that faster than light travel may be possible. Although realistically stargates or some type of wormhole would be much more practical. Even if we could travel faster than light, if we hit something on the way, even a tiny particle, we're toast. If I could avoid all that by just walking to another world of course that's my choice.
You bring up a good point about night and day cycles. Everything on earth is accustomed to this environment. Even if other planets were habitable for fungus or plants or whatever it's going to greatly affect the kind of life that would live there. How would we take crops with us if the night and day cycle was vastly different from ours? That's a good question. It's certainly not possible with our technology today. I doubt we could even keep a colony alive on Mars right now. Nevertheless, if it happens to be Jah's will for people to one day become a 2 planet species I am certain he already has another location reserved. I think humans will live on earth forever. Earth will always be special because this is where life began. Life may diverge from earth at some distant point. That life will diverge to other worlds. Countless eons may go by. But earth will always be remembered, and for a lot of reasons. It may be so special that one day life from all across the universe have to go on waiting lists for centuries just to see it for themselves.
Perhaps. Who knows? All I'm saying is Jah created a heck of a lot of space out there. While I don't want to speak for God either, I do suspect he decided on a nearly limitless sandbox for a reason.
I agree. There will clearly be stopping points. Humanity could go long periods of time without generating offspring. There will have to be pauses. But when you're talking about an eternity any stopping point always leads to something new eventually. Paradise can't just be a static thing forever. Change and progress guide the future. So it may not be a quick explosion in population across the galaxy, but given enough time it could be done. Perhaps occasionally new planets open up. I plan to volunteer. Been trying to get off the planet for years.