Playing devil’s advocate here..... however, Jesus gives me hope and strength.
re: Goldilocks zone, if the planets are expanding, wasn’t earth in venus’s orbit millions of years ago? And couldn’t mars have been in earth’s orbit millions of years ago?
Further, if the planets are expanding, couldn’t mars have gone through the whole life-cycle goldilocks thing millions of years ago like we are now?
“if the planets are expanding, wasn’t earth in venus’s orbit millions of years ago? And couldn’t mars have been in earth’s orbit millions of years ago?”
The space is expanding, not the planets. The arrangement of planets shouldn’t change as space expands, since the arrangement is dictated by the forces that bind the solar system together in equilibrium. That equilibrium remains the same unless the elements of the system change, or the laws of physics that govern it change.
Are the planets expanding?
I haven’t heard that, but my answer would be the same- I don’t know.
I wonder if ‘earth’ would be ‘here’ if it wasn’t for everything up there.
you mention mars and venus, if those weren’t where they are, would earth, His footstool, be what we know of it today?
Is everything up there playing a role that allows ‘earth’ to be ‘earth’?