Our Earth feels like all there is, but we know that it’s just a tiny planet in a vast solar system. And our Solar System is just one member of a vast Milky Way galazy with 200 to 400 billion stars. But how many are there in the entire Universe?

This is a difficult number to know for certain, since we can only see a fraction of the Universe, even with our most powerful instruments. The most current estimates guess that there are 100 to 200 billion galaxies in the Universe, each of which has hundreds of billions of stars. Some estimates put that number even higher –  2 trillion. In other words, there could be more than one galaxy out there for every star in the Milky Way. And scientists believe there may be an infinite number of universes!

Does God have children on these other worlds?

President Joseph Fielding Smith wrote: 

“Not only was this earth planned as an architect plans his building but its entire destiny and the destiny of its inhabitants was considered and known to the great Architect, before its foundation stones were laid. Our Eternal Father was not experimenting when this world came into existence. It did not come by chance. It is not the first of his creations. Millions upon millions of worlds such as this had rolled into existence before our earth was born. Every step taken was according to the divine plan, and that plan was an eternal one, which had been followed in the construction of other worlds without number unto man. In other worlds the plan of salvation had been given. Here we are enacting familiar scenes; scenes which are new to all mortal men, but which are well known to the Father and also to the Son.” (The Way to Perfection, pp35-36)

And in D&C 76:24 we read:

That by ^ahim, and through him, and of him, the ^bworlds are and were created, and the ^cinhabitants thereof are begotten ^dsons and daughters unto God.

Elder McConkie says that this means that the atonement of Christ, being literally and truly infinite, applies to an infinite number of earths.

President  Russell M Nelson said:

The mercy of the atonement extends not only to an infinite number of people, but also to an infinite number of worlds created by him.

It seems that we happen to live on the world where the atonement of the creator and redeemer of the universe (universes?) actually tooj place.

Moses 7:35 – 36 says:

Behold, I am God; ^aMan of Holiness is my name; Man of Counsel is my name; and Endless and Eternal is my ^bname, also.

  36 Wherefore, I can stretch forth mine hands and hold all the ^acreations which I have made; and mine eye can pierce them also, and among all the workmanship of mine hands there has not been so great ^bwickedness as among thy brethren.  (This is the most wicked world)

Despite the vast size of his creations, He redeemed us individually. Mosiah 15: 10- 12, speaking of the Saviour  says:

10 And now I say unto you, who shall declare his ^ageneration? Behold, I say unto you, that when his soul has been made an offering for ^bsin he shall see his ^cseed. And now what say ye? And who shall be his seed?

11 Behold I say unto you, that whosoever has heard the words of the ^aprophets, yea, all the holy prophets who have prophesied concerning the coming of the Lord—I say unto you, that all those who have hearkened unto their words, and believed that the Lord would redeem his people, and have looked forward to that day for a remission of their sins, I say unto you, that these are his seed, or they are the heirs of the ^bkingdom of God.

12 For these are they whose sins ^ahe has borne; these are they for whom he has died, to redeem them from their transgressions. And now, are they not his seed?

Abinadi is saying that the Saviour will see his ‘seed’ while he is making his atoning sacrifice. And his seed are those who believe on him. Elder Merrill J Bateman said that in the garden and on the cross Jesus saw each of us and not only bore our sins but also experienced our deepest feelings so that he would know how to comfort and strengthen us.

In 1 Nephi chapter 11 an angel talks to Nephi about the condescension of God:

 14And it came to pass that I saw the ^aheavens open; and an angel came down and stood before me; and he said unto me: Nephi, what beholdest thou?

  15 And I said unto him: A virgin, most beautiful and fair above all other virgins.

  16 And he said unto me: Knowest thou the ^acondescension of God?

  17 And I said unto him: I know that he loveth his children; nevertheless, I do not know the meaning of all things.

In this context, condescension means to descend voluntarily to a lower level. The creator and redeemer of the universe condescended, that is came down to our level, by coming to earth, came down even below our level by being born in the most humble of circumstances, being born in poverty in a cave or a stable in an obscure part of the most wicked of his creations. He was baptised in the River Jordan, the lowest point on  the earth to symbolise this condescension. Then he atoned for our sins and was crucified like a common criminal in the shadow of the temple that should have been His ‘house’,

All because He loves His children

Moses 1:39 For behold, this is my ^awork and my ^bglory—to bring to pass the ^cimmortality and ^deternal ^elife of man.