Posted on 11/12/2009 6:21:42 PM PST by JoeProBono
thx
“In my Father’s house there are many mansions. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you?”
[Jn. 14:2]
Must...not...comment.
C.S. Lewis did a fascinating take on this in his Space Trilogy, specifically the book Perelandra, where a corrupted earthling travels to Venus and there tempts their “Eve”. In Lewis’s version of things, this planet’s Eve chooses to obey God, and life on that planet takes a different course.
While the Times article may take a patronizing/mocking tone, the question is one that can be considered, and should not simply be dismissed. (Oftentimes the purpose of such mockery is simply to humiliate & silence believers. Just sayin’)
Anyway ... if one thinks of God the Father as the mysterious, the great I AM, creator, God of Abraham, and the Son (Christ) as his intermediary/interface/with his creation (the Word who was with God and was God), then it is quite conceivable that if the Father has created life on another planet and that life has chosen to disobey him, that Christ will likewise come to redeem them.
And for that matter, having been redeemed, why shouldn’t the Holy Spirit then dwell in them?
Again, just sayin’
(And yes, I do like C.S. Lewis...)
Depends upon the situation.
Man was created in the image of God.
The Adversary tempted man via Eve.
Angels had everlasting life before some were condemned, while humans are condemned prior to being offered eternal life.
Interestingly, there are both fallen and elect angels, just as there are elect humans.
And He said to them: Go ye into the whole world, and preach the gospel to every creature. — Mark 16:15
lol
I enjoy Davies’s books, but I am exasperated by his blame-the-Catholics-first approach. Why assume that your limited view of Catholicism prohibits a belief in aliens or in salvation for them?
bump for later read
Spot on!
That is a great icon. WTG!
Beyond th' Horizon; then from Pole to Pole
He views in bredth, and without longer pause
Down right into the Worlds first Region throws
His flight precipitant, and windes with ease
Through the pure marble Air his oblique way
Amongst innumerable Starrs, that shon
Stars distant, but nigh hand seemd other Worlds,
Or other Worlds they seemd, or happy Iles,
Like those Hesperian Gardens fam'd of old,
Fortunate Fields, and Groves and flourie Vales,
Thrice happy Iles, but who dwelt happy there
He stayd not to enquire
Milton's far more interesting and pertinent than anything to be found in TimesOnline.
Does God pervade the universe?
only on Saturday night
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