Is God expanding faster than the universe?

Question

Now that we've known for awhile that the universe isn't just expanding the expansion is accelerating and will forever what does that do to your view of God?
Does it affect the Zodiac?
Does it affect anything?
If it doesn't matter, why not?

Jedi Baptist ;-)

Answer 1

God is the Universe; the Universe is God. It is the Tao, the Oneness of Us All. Any expansion incorporates both. The Zodiac as we know it remains pure, for everything expands simultaneously, taking us along for the ride.

So no, (((Gnostic))), it does not matter. We just need to remain aware of it; we need to accelerate with it, and we need to do so physically and spiritually.

Answer 2

Ummmm ... the universe is thought to be expanding. While this is fairly sure, the rate of expansion isn't known, and subject to continuous, rigorous debate amongst astronomers, physicists, etc. The rate of expansion directly affects our estimates of when the Big Bang happened.

The zodiac is notional - a few stars extrapolated to form pictures; and it is changing. Over a period of time, they do change postions in the sky (albeit slowly). In a million years from now, your night sky will be quite different from what you see tonight. However there won't be any impact to you - astrologists will still write the vague things they do now, and will appear correct to the gullible few who bother to read them.

Have you also considered what would happen to you if (say) you lived around Alpha Centaurus? You would still be born on a certain date, yet the constellations, even from this relatively close star system, are radically different to what is seen from earth. This would really 'bugger up' astrology!

I don't think it will affect you in any material way - unless you viewed things happening over billions of years (not many of us). It does not matter insofar as we cannot do anything about it - it's a fact of nature.

I cannot see anywhere that god or the supernatural come into it.

Answer 3

God does not expand. God is already infinitely vast. God is the Unchanging ground of all existence, the transcendent reality, both manifest andunmanifest. God is not limited to what we can see and understand. God is the 11th dimension, the great uber-void within which are infinite dimensions or membranes, each one containing a universe similar to our own but with differing physical laws.
These membranes, mathematically predicted in M Theory mostly take the shape of a donut, with the physical universe we are used to thinking about as space inside the donut shape. As the outer ring or outside diameter expands, the inner hole expands too so even though it appears to be infinitely expanding, it is creating an equal void at the center, which means it only appears to be expanding.
This stuff is so totally relative to other stuff that it can only really be described by advance theoretical mathematics, of which I am no expert.

Answer 4

So are cosmologists. Some are even saying that the expansion phase of the Big Bang is so unparsimonious, that the Big Collision of M theory is more likely. Anyway, in the Big Bang theory's expansion phase, space itself expanded. That means, the fabric of the universe. It's not matter or energy, it's just space, and therefore would not have a speed limit. Things have a speed limit within space.

Answer 5

Well since God is omnipotent, I'd say that the universe is inside God. So either God is big enough to house the ever expanding universe, or that he is expanding at the same rate. I'm sure it has some effect on something, but I doubt we'll ever see it, or understand it. I don't believe God resembles man at all. The bible said we were made in his image. But maybe it meant he imagined what a human would be and then made it happen. God is more like an ever present energy, and the closest thing that resembles what God is, is the human soul.....just a presence, an energy. And energy can expand.

Answer 6

I'm not certain why the thought would occur to you, but I'll assume it has to do with the idea that God is somehow in matter or physical space, or mater is in God.

It's just metaphorical. 'God' is the source of time/space/physicality and is therefore not physical or located in time/space. There would be no connection between what happens in the universe and what happens to God. In most belief systems, God is already infinite and eternal, and so there is no changing going on.

Answer 7

God is a fiction, so has nothing to do with the universe, its expansion, or anything else. The expansion won't have any significant effect of the zodiac for millions of years.

Answer 8

Remember, it's just the part of the universe we can detect. The universe is infinite and forever, god isn't in the picture. Because if the universe has always been around, it was never created.

Answer 9

There is nohing in this Universe that is not God's creation and in other words, God is everywhere and if He is everwhere,then whether it is expanding or exploding or fissions are taking place in the galaxies it is all Him and His existance....why bother about it!

And if you say you are enlightened then you are also a part of it....other wise it is only talk and so many only talk.

Answer 10

If you believe God created the universe, He doesn't need to expand, or incorporate the universe into Himself, because He's beyond it. He exists outside the universe, and all of reality, in fact. This is, of course, if you believe God created all that is or ever will be, and exists in all things everywhere. He is intangible, unreadable, incalculable. The universe, in its ever-expanding nature, is still tangible and finite. God, or the idea of God, is not.