Comments on: City Galaxy of God?

By: CadmusSorrell.com | Christian Carnival CXXVIII

CadmusSorrell.com | Christian Carnival CXXVIII — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 04:13:00 +0000

[...] Mark Olson at Pseudo-Polymath presents City Galaxy of God [...]

By: Chris Walley

Chris Walley — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 16:21:23 +0000

And just to say my own blog “News from Farholme” is now on http://chriswalley.blogspot.com/

Blessings

Chrius

By: Jeremy Pierce

Jeremy Pierce — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 02:07:33 +0000

Chris, that was all I was looking for. If we wanted to get into a discussion of whether it’s true, that would take a more serious discussion of the issues, but as far as this question was concerned I just wanted to know if you’d thought through the issue. It appears you have.

By: Chris Walley

Chris Walley — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 16:40:21 +0000

Hi. I’m the author (dont you just love Google?). Thanks for the comments. The theology is orthodox but a bit unfamiliar in these days of the imminent Second Coming as Orthodoxy. As for the Adamic Mandate being limited to the earth I see this as being expanded. After all in the OT Abraham is offered the land of Israel; in the NT the church is offered the world.

Feel free to chase me up on my website or blog.

Blessings

Chris

By: Parableman

Parableman — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 00:17:49 +0000

Space Exploration and the Creation Mandate…

This idea for this post occurred to me when reading this post, at Pseudo-Polymath, which reviews a Christian science fiction novel. I wanted to expand a little on a comment I left on that post. The novel in question involves people from Earth colonizin…

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 12:56:45 +0000

Jeremy,
There is no indication that the planets are being colonized because earth has any sort of resource or ecological mismanagement. Actually the impetus for colonization was assumed and the reasons for it are not discussed, the diaspora and spread of humanity among the stars is just a given. Mr Walley’s Assembly has set strict limits on technological growth and expansion sort like high tech Menonnites or Amish perhaps, and perhaps he feels that expansion into new realms physically is needed to replace the technological progression to which we are accustomed.

The “buffet/cafeteria” of Christian sects has also disappeared, there is only one catholic faith and there is no real discussion as to how that came about, it’s all in the distant past I guess.

By: Jeremy Pierce

Jeremy Pierce — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 01:25:29 +0000

I think it has a problem biblically, then. Lewis deals with this by not having the people out there be humans descended from Adam and Eve. I don’t mind scifi that has humans colonizing other planets or even with only faint memories of Earth. Firefly was exactly that, and it was excellent. But it’s a little strange to write it as a Christian novel and not even deal with the issue of God telling Adam that he was being given the Earth to steward and care for without any indication that it would be ok to go other places and care for things not given to us (never mind to use other planets as a fallback for not stewarding the Earth properly).

By: Martin LaBar

Martin LaBar — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 21:10:17 +0000

Thanks for posting this. I’d never heard of this book.

I found this post through the Christian Carnival.

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 18:00:16 +0000

Jeremy,
Well, thousands of planets have been colonized, but only one of the main characters is from “Ancient Earth”. But, no there is no mention of earth vs other planets being the only place given to humanity to steward, however it is also Mr Walley’s premise that on no other planet has other then unicellur bacterial life been found.

By: Jeremy Pierce

Jeremy Pierce — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 17:17:44 +0000

Did it address the issue of only the earth being given to humanity to steward?