You all have probably heard the story of "parable of the drowning man", or "two boats and a helicopter"? It of course is not a bible story, but maybe it still has a point.

So, a man trapped by a flood prays for God to save him, but refuses help by humans who go by, two in a boat who offer to take him with them, and finally from a helicopter rescue, because he is waiting for God's help. But when he dies and goes to heaven and asks why he didn't get the help he prayed for but God allowed him to die, God tells him that He did send help, but the man refused to take it.

So, we know that Earth is at risk from a lot of natural things, among them being meteors and comets that might hit us and do us in the same way the dinosaurs were probably destroyed.

So, what if, just what if, Elon Musk and other space enthusiasts have been given their drive to get us into space, and the tools to finally make it, because while God protected the Earth until now, back when we didn't have those tools to do it, it would now be our job to start doing it ourselves? To get into space, develop the systems so that next time some errant space rock, or something else, becomes a risk, we could stop it ourselves?

And if we don't do it but keep on trusting God to do it, he no longer will, and if we all die because of that, and Earth is again destroyed, that is what He will tell us once we get to that side? That we refused to do what he gave us the tools to do?

Maybe God really is more likely to help those who help themselves, or at least try their best to do it, more than he helps those who just passively wait for Him to do all of it?

Just a thought.