My idea of believing:
Posted on 05/13/2008 1:10:00 PM PDT by meandog
VATICAN CITY (AP) - The Vatican's chief astronomer says that believing in aliens does not contradict faith in God. The Rev. Jose Gabriel Funes, the Jesuit director of the Vatican Observatory, says that the vastness of the universe means it is possible there could be other forms of life outside Earth, even intelligent ones.
In an interview published Tuesday by Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, Funes says that such a notion "doesn't contradict our faith" because aliens would still be God's creatures.
The interview was headlined "The extraterrestrial is my brother." Funes said that ruling out the existence of aliens would be like "putting limits" on God's creative freedom.
Who ever said it did?
Pope Art Bell XVI ?
PING - interesting...
O.P.I. ping....
8^)
I thought it was pretty much an unwritten rule.
Who ever said it did?
I think they're referring to The Bible.....God created man in his likness etc etc.
All well and good, but let’s not forget that the Devil comes to us disguised as an angel of Light and Good.
I suspect that not ALL Aliens are Good Guys...
Belief in Satanic manafestations as proof of “aliens” or any other “lying signs and wonders” show lack of discernment or worse.
Doubt that there is anything out there though. Otherwise we would have picked up their ‘I Love Lucy’ reruns by now.
My idea of believing:
The Bible doesn’t mention aliens, dinosaurs, or anything other than man’s relationship with the Creator.
Perhaps there are other life forms that have their own covenant with God. It is probably none of our business.
I’d never heard that.
Agreed. In fact there no reason to think that any "alien"(if there really is such a thing) would be anything other than hostile.
So, Dennis Kucinich isn’t in danger of excommunication, after all?
Are we being set up here for the introduction of “extraterrestrial” influences?
Ah, OK. Are they telling us something we should know about?
Only if he came descending out of the sky with a mighty shout...
...and instead Hussein only came crawling out of Chicago with a used car saleman’s pitch.
The only explanations for Elizabeth Kucinich to fall for Dennis—and she fell in love on first sight—is A) She’s alien, and thus it’s ok to believe in her, or B) Stepford wife, alien technology.
Is it acceptable to believe that Juno, Io, Europa and Ganymede orbit Jupiter and not Earth?
Actually it talks about a whole lot more than that.
The Bible is a whole worldview.
Limiting it to “relationships” is reductionist.
“Pope Art Bell XVI ?”
Priceless. He, like George, never met a lunatic he didn’t believe. LOL.
All I know is my ex-mother-in-law was from another world.
Gen 6:1-2 - “When men began to increase in number on the earth and daughters were born to them, the sons of God (bene elohim) saw that the daughters of men were beautiful, and they married any of them they chose.”
Matt 24:37 - “As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.”
Rev 12:7-9 - “And there was war in heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back. But he was not strong enough, and they lost their place in heaven. The great dragon was hurled down—that ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world astray. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him.”
I love how Art Bell has that condescendingly "sure I believe you" voice whenever he has a whacko on (which was most every night). George, I think, really actually believes these people, while Art does not (I hope).
Will the Queen of Heaven (Mary) return to Rome in a UFO?
“George, I think, really actually believes these people.”
I agree. Hpw many times have you heard him say “Reeeaaalllyyy???” to some of those crazies?
LOL!!! Well....yeah....
But, will there be a Mass for aliens and, if so, in what language?
Thanks much.
I’m still very unsure what, if anything, I’m allowed to post on such threads . . .
I do know that this admission by the Vatican is the very tiniest tip of the iceberg of the Vatican’s involvement in the field of UFO’s/ET’s.
There’s tons about their involvement that this latest news doesn’t even hint at.
None of the better known races of ET’s . . . most would say none of those we know anything about . . .
are really good.
They all lie.
They all or virtually all abuse humans wholesale.
Some of them, at least, murder humans in the same manner cows are mutilated—without anesthetic . . .
and reportedly use the body parts for sustenence . . . food.
Your second graphic relates to believing how???
BEING SET-UP for the introductions of ET influences?
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Certainly. Of course we are.
I think only those with their heads in the sand and their brains turned off could fail to notice that.
The last 12 months has not exactly been a full court press but it has certainly been an escalation of information release—both official and unofficial.
Most of the official has been over seas—Britain, France, Brazil etc.
However, at the UFO conferences, the quality of information, research, analysis has taken a big leap from last year.
Dave, please ping the list. I don’t have it with me here in AZ.
Then, of course, there’s been the behavior of the craft . . . evidently more demonstrative, brazen etc. than a year or two ago.
OK, flame away. It’s the season and I’m already a crispy critter so more flames won’t matter much.
Some personage pretending to be her and filling that role convincingly is not at all far fetched given . . . various facts.
I think I mostly agree with you.
For an institution (the RCC) that puts their church traditions on a par with the Bible, and interprets the Genesis creation account mystically, what would you expect. The Bible says mankind is made in the image of God. Thats good enough for us Biblicists, but not for the RCC, however.
If we believe that we are made in God’s image, then wouldn’t aliens that don’t look like us defeat that belief? Or are we to assume that they were made in God’s imagination?
O.P.I. pings....
I thought it was our God-given duty to KILL Klingons...
On your Phaser, that’s the next setting above “Stun”...
Reports indicate they communciate by thought—reading and projecting into folks’ minds.
There’s also significant evidence of some minority of them using a variety of earth languages in some rare contexts.
I don’t remember the details on the latter.
Arguing from silence is not likely to be overly productive, emphatically confincing nor accurate.
God says many things.
He doesn’t elaborate much on the sparce mention of the fallen angels/nephilium/watchers etc.
Even Enoch is cryptic in many respects.
Rather than "Satanic manifestations", a more accurate description would be "pseudoscientific nonsense". There's certainly no need to invoke the supernatural to dubunk UFO devotees.
On the other hand, there's certainly nothing wrong the legitimate search for alien intelligence (SETI, for instance).
There are a lot of potentially life-bearing planets out there, and we've only searched for electromagnetic transmissions from the tiniest fraction of them.
I hope you’re right. A couple of the “SETI” stations are located in the Owens Valley south of Bishop, Ca. Every time I drive by, I can’t help but imagine them as radio beacons sending out a cosmic message that amounts to “Eat Here”.
Io, Europa, and Ganymede are moons of Jupiter. Juno is an asteroid.
Well, as long as they don’t gossip, I guess that’s OK...
I have no problem believing in unintelligent slime on another world.
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