Why is the universe so big?

[artybloke]

There was a book (by JB Philips, I think) called Your God Is Too Small. It talked about the way everyone has a different image of what God is like in their heads, even though they're probably aware intellectually that it's only an image. It affects the way they see God, often unconsciously. If taken too seriously or too literally, it becomes a kind of idol in itself.

A God who needs a big universe to show how grand he is seems to me to be one of those images. God is the ground of all being: the uncaused cause of all that exists. Why would God need a big universe to show how big he is?

 

[gluadys]

There was a book (by JB Philips, I think) called Your God Is Too Small.

I have that book. Yes, it is J.B. Philips.

Why would God need a big universe to show how big he is?

In particular, to get back to the OP, why would the universe need to be so big to show us how big he is. Without access to a powerful telescope, we can't see most of it anyway. And we don't even know if what we can see with our most powerful telescopes is more than a small fraction of all there is in the universe. We could still be in the kids wading pool section with a whole ocean still unseen.