Mission to mars

[other one]

I think that God can find anyone hiding out on Mars should the end times come while they're off exploring.

 

That's a thought.....   getting away from end times here on earth....    somehow that's just not right  LoL

[ayin jade]

Has any one been following this?

What are your thoughts?

Would you take a one way trip to Mars?

Are there any scriptural or theological concerns?

 

Ive been following this. 

 

Personally I think they are nuts for doing this. Ive read that experts think there is no way they can survive more than a few months. 

 

In arizona where I live there is something called the biosphere which was to study how to set up a completely enclosed self sufficient ecosystem in order to have this in space travel. 

 

It failed. 

 

The system leaked. Plants etc started dying. It doesnt work. I dont think the mars project is capable of setting up a life supporting system. 

 

Is there a scriptural injunction against something like this? No. God isnt limited to earth. They can just as easily get saved on mars or in space as they can on earth. Although their chances of hearing the gospel might be a tad bit more limited up there. Nor will they be able to look around for a good church.

[other one]

you are assuming none that go would be Christians......

[missmuffet]

I think that God can find anyone hiding out on Mars should the end times come while they're off exploring.

Of course God can find you wherever you are.

 

Psalm 139:7-10

 

Where can I go from Your Spirit?

Or where can I flee from Your presence?

8 If I ascend into heaven, You are there;

If I make my bed in hell, behold, You are there.

9 If I take the wings of the morning,

And dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,

10 Even there Your hand shall lead me,

And Your right hand shall hold me.

[Guest shiloh357]

God allows us to look into outer space for the purpose of seeing his glory.  He didn't make planets that were inhabitable like ours.   We are on the outer cusp of the Milky Way and this gives us a front row seat to be able to look into space and see all that he has made.  We able to send satellites and probes and learn more about space, but we are nowhere near capable of the kind of technology that would allow us to colonize other planets.  

 

Everything, the entire universe was created for us, for God to show us how powerful He is and when we see the 10 octillion stars that Einstein estimated occupy our universe and when we consider that He made them out of nothing and even knows them all by name, He is more than capable of taking care of us.

[Guest]

Has any one been following this?

What are your thoughts?

Would you take a one way trip to Mars?

Are there any scriptural or theological concerns?

 

1. Not really. Other than seeing an article or two on it around the web.

 

2. An awful lot of research and resources would need to go into something like a colonizing mission to Mars, and I doubt we have the technology to do that.

 

It would seem that the folks volunteering for this are either pioneers like our forefathers who explored the New World of their day - or are wanting to go on a suicide mission. I just don't see the sense in that. There was a project called Biosphere 2 located here in Arizona that was designed to set up and test a sealed environment for space travel and other purposes. It failed when the plants started dying and the air began going bad for the folks inside. There were also leaks. If they can't get a sealed environment to work here on Earth I doubt they could do so on Mars - which means the colonists would soon be dead too.

 

Another reason: Mars has no magnetic field like Earth's to protect the surface from the Sun's radiation . . . meaning you would have to live underground on Mars in order to shield yourself from it. You would also get radiation exposure just going out and working on the surface. Solar flares are a real danger even for those in near Earth orbit like the ISS and the ISS is still within the Earth's magnetic field.

 

3. No way I'd take a one way trip to Mars without a pretty firm impression about a few things:

 

A. That God had called me to go whether as a missionary or for what ever other reasons He might have.

B. I would much prefer if it wasn't essentially a suicide mission.

C. That there was a reasonable chance of survival not just of myself but also others on the crew and those who would follow.

 

An example of C is our history. Folks from Europe came to the New World on ships just like you would on Mars - but on Earth all things needed for life were already in place like air, edible plants, water, etc. They had a reasonable expectation of being able to survive in the New World. Not on Mars. You can only ship so much to another planet before its just too costly. Then there's the issues of raw materials. How do you make air? Are the raw materials available, and where are they? How do you find them? More important: How do you mine and or process them? There's a lot of stuff to consider - and if you don't consider rightly people die.

 

4. I don't see any particular Biblical or theological issues with going to Mars. I've never seen anything like a commandment, "Thou shalt not go off planet."  God created the heavens and the earth, and so if I can pray and praise Him here on Earth then I can do so on Mars - or any where else in the universe for that matter.

[Guest]

 

I think that God can find anyone hiding out on Mars should the end times come while they're off exploring.

 

That's a thought.....   getting away from end times here on earth....    somehow that's just not right  LoL

 

 

I think you're right.

 

I think that the End Times is one reason we won't have folks living on the Moon or Mars any time soon. After Jesus returns perhaps, but not before. The events in Revelation will play out here on Earth.

[Guest]

We could just use it as a penal colony.  Seems fitting.  Plenty of rocks for them to bust.

 

Nations have begun that way here on Earth . . . tricky part would be setting up the colony to begin with. The escape rate would probably be pretty low . . .

[Guest shiloh357]

The drawback is if they develop a society and later find a way to start an inter-stellar war with earth. 

[other one]

The drawback is if they develop a society and later find a way to start an inter-stellar war with earth. 

It would be like Humans to do that...