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Isn’t it exciting to hear there may be earth-like planets, namely those that orbit suns similar to our own, perhaps even in abundance ‘out there’ in the universe?! Yes, but let’s take a step back and analyze ‘why’ its exciting for a moment.

Could it be that our human emotions are based on hope?  What I mean is this; based on human history, (I refer to written history and not speculative pre-history), there have been many technological accomplishments, however, sociologically not so much, or to put it simply, human relations have, for the most part, been an abysmal failure.

Arguably, history has recorded that modern man is pretty much a failure in human relations. For instance when has there ever been an extended period in at least 2000 years that hasn’t included wars, genocides, oppression, atrocities, ad infinitum!

In my humble opinion failures throughout history have engendered a present day ‘faint hope’ that somewhere, somehow, mankind will find relief, or to put it another way, ‘salvation’, from his earthly experience.  (I would also submit this is the very basis of the ‘theory’ of evolution.)  In other words an attempt to absolve humanity from our blood stained past, and even more so, its present!

Its no secret that the dramatic increase in world population has brought about the prospect of mass-extinction, despite enormous potential for increase… why?  In a nutshell; the answer is clearly human mismanagement, be it environmentally, politically, or economically!

But I digress; returning to the aforementioned planetary discoveries; what is it that really excites us about them?  Isn’t it all about finding relief from our human failures?  The vain  hope that if there is life on other planets it may somehow point the way to discover or make human life somehow successful, an existence that has eluded us on earth?

For example, remember the classic Sci-Fi movie “The Day The Earth Stood Still”? An alien galactic envoy arrives to warn that robots were authorized to arbitrarily enforce galactic peace.  They were said to be programmed to obliterate any planet who threatened a galactic peace protocol by the misuse of atomic power! (A very human approach no doubt!)

In conclusion, I submit that mankind as a whole is missing the ‘woods for the trees’.  What I mean by that is the greatest human to ever live provided us with the way out of our failed human condition, the way to achieve what many are now seeking in the stars.

He told us what to seek, how and where to find it, and  the result  would be nothing less than everlasting life on a paradise earth!  Therefore shouldn’t that be our primary focus? Because whether we seek it or not, earth is scheduled for exactly that ideal future by its eternal Creator! Indeed, have faith: it really will happen, with, or without, our personal benefit, and right here on planet earth!

For more information on this subject please visit my post: From Paradise Lost to Paradise Regained!