Posted on 04/08/2015 6:07:34 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
This is ridiculous. You are telling me that stating God did something He never said He did isn’t adding to His word? That is the very definition of adding to His word!
Logically, if there is intelligent life out there then the message of the New Testament would be false; thus believing in aliens borders on blasphemous. I don’t need a special verse telling me there are no aliens, I trust God’s word and lean on His understanding, not my own. Read Job, Isaiah...they both discuss the glory of God throughout the universe, revealing many of its secrets, zero mention of alien life.
Found it on IMBD. Season 1, Episode 3: ‘The Architects of Fear’. Air date: 9/30/1963.
I am not saying what God did or did not do. You are the one attempting to state that you know God did not create alien life. Show me the scripture. I don’t know whether alien life exists or not. But I see nothing in scripture that conflicts with there being alien life if God chose to create it.
I remember the show, but not that particular episode.
I have never cared for sci-fi and I never gave UFO/alien talk much of a thought. In recent years that has begun to change. When Vatican officials, including cardinals and the pope, began to openly discuss the prospect of baptizing aliens it got my attention. Vatican astronomer Guy Consolmagno has discussed that very prospect in lectures within the past year or so. And when I began to understand that a huge percentage of college students now accept ancient alien theory as an explanation for human origins, that really got my attention. Some young men in my Bible study have said they believe more of their peers believe in ancient alien theory than biblical creation. Because of those two things I started doing some reading and discovered there are Christians out there who have been writing and warning about a coming deception concerning aliens. I believe the world has already been primed to accept nonsense as truth.
No. What I said was that alien life would make the message of the New Testament false. In my first comment I explained my position. You can use scripture to explain how it wouldn’t if you want to prove me in danger of adding to scripture.
“if one holds to a biblical worldview, he sees the astonishing lack of evidence for extraterrestrial life—especially considering how actively man has searched for it for decades. Thus, there is not only no reason for the Christian to believe aliens exist, but reason for the Christian to believe aliens don’t exist.”
Doesn’t that depend on the technology level required to competently search for any hypothetical life outside of what we know? I mean 3000 years ago it would have been the same argument about trying to prove unknown lands and peoples across the sea actually exist.
Freegards
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Decades is nothing in space-time. If you compressed the entire history of the Universe until now into a year, all of recorded human history would take place on December 31. Given the vastness of the Universe, it could take thousands and thousands of light-years before an alien signal would even reach us...at which time, we wouldn’t even exist anymore.
I think the search for alien life stems largely from an unbiblical evolutionary mindset, so all the technology in the world won’t matter. To evolutionists the earth is “just another planet” but one where the conditions just happened to be exactly right for life to form and evolve. If there are countless billions of other planets in our galaxy, then surely at least a handful of these worlds have also had the right conditions. Extraterrestrial life is almost inevitable in an evolutionary worldview.
As I said above, the actual discovery of alien life would not destroy my faith, but it would create all kinds of difficult questions for Christians. In the end, based on my understanding of the Bible, I don’t believe they exist. Evolutionists are wrong. Earth isn’t “just another planet.” The Son of God came to this planet and He came as a man, not a Klingon.
Thanks. I’d love to see it. I think I will poke around and see if I can find it online.
There are just too many things that had to be just right for this planet to sustain life for it to be random.
Let me if you do. IIRC, (Heck, it has only been 50+ years!), some scientists or generals or politicians or some such sat around a conference table and decided that the Earth was toast unless something or someone was to cause some crap thus pulling nations together to fight a common enemy. So they drew straws to see who would be slowly chemically converted into the monster, (Robert Culp), after that I do not remember how it shakes out. I’m not much of an ‘alien’ person myself. I have always thought it was a kind of satanic ‘false religion’ driving folks away from the Bible, to focus or pay attention to aliens instead of God’s word.on
How can one predict when one will discover what one has not discovered? How absurd!
I know. The idea is absurd. To actually believe it you have to want to disbelieve “In the beginning God...” People foolishly let what their fallen minds believe to be theoretically possible (or worse, what other fallen men have told them is theoretically possible) overrule what is absolutely real and knowable from God’s Word.
“20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: 21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. 22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools” (Romans 1:20-22)
The Bible is the infallible word of the one and only omniscient creator God of the universe.
I’m not a sci-fi person at all. I am only concerned about it now because I realize people are being deceived away from the Bible and the saving gospel of Jesus Christ. The young men in my Bible study say that among their peers, more believe Ancient Alien Theory or Panspermia as an explanation of human origins than those who believe in biblical creation. If that’s true, the end times “strong delusion” may soon be upon us.
There is more to life than we know. Did God create the environment for man or man for the environment? If order is an indication, the latter is true. Does that demean man or God?
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know. Creation is wonderful and God is great. The Bible does not speak to all matter and silence is not an argument. Why must God fit in a box? Mine is larger than life itself, and that doesn’t negate the Truth of the Bible.
Well said. I agree completely Colt. There are one heck of a lot of ‘diverting’ and ‘fooling’ False Religions and I will bet that the amount of them continues to grow by the week.
I think your view or tendency of belief is absolutely just as valid as those secular humanists who declare that life other than what we now know must invariably exist no matter what for their own purposes. But I don’t think that we have already exhaustively searched for any hypothetical other life by any means in the decades we have looked, even allowing that we might be actually alone. Decades searching by the means we currently have isn’t determinative by the standard our God given nature allows for. It just isn’t. We don’t yet even really know everything that lives in the bottom of our own seas.
Freegards
One rejoinder to that argument is that if there are things like 10 million year old civilizations in our galaxy, why haven’t their probes or activity been evident even to us, with the pitifully short timespan we have been looking and with the limited means at out disposal?
Of course there are many rejoinders to that argument as well.
Freegards
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