Would aliens have original sin?
Would aliens have original sin?
Well, that's pretty stupid. I consider myself a Christian and hold no such views. IMO the Bible just doesn't address the issue.
Hmmm. Scientology was NOT listed.
This Weintraub guy's prejudices are pretty close to the surface. I won't speak for Muslims; their book is the product of one crazed human being. But believers in The Book ought to have no problem with extraterrestrials. After all, both the Old and New Testaments are chock full of encounters with "non-humans."
In the words of Larry Norman:
If there's life on other planets, I'm sure that he must know.
And he's been there once already and died to save their souls.
Alliens or rather UFOs are fallen angelic beings, demonic beings.
The whole UFO phenomonon is the great deception.
Ehpesians 6:12
For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers , against the rulers of the darkness of this age , against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the HEAVENLY PLACES.
Considering how far off this is I would say you could make some mighty fine compost from this article.
I’ve had one Christian freeper tell me that there could be no aliens, and that any creatures arriving which presented themselves as aliens could only be Satanic demons in disguise.
One of the strongest proofs for Christianity is the absence of extraterrestrial intelligent beings:
As the article stipulates, Christianity teaches man as God’s special creation, a creation for whom God sacrificed His only Son. These other beings would either need to be perfect, having never fallen; or they would need to have been redeemed in the same manner that man was redeemed. If such creatures knew nothing of Christ, Christianity would make little sense.
How could God judge these creatures without revealing Himself to them?
But we have been searching for extraterrestrial intelligence for some time, to no avail. Given that we are neither at the edge of our galaxy where life would have spontaneously developed earliest; nor at the center of our galaxy, where life might be expected to develop later; a naturalistic model for life would assume forms both more and less advanced than our own. The advanced forms would certainly generate electromagnetic signatures which would be detectable and demonstrably synthetic.
The lack of such EM evidence provides a strong argument for the premise that man is alone in the galaxy (and by extension, the universe). This fits perfectly with the Christian worldview, but is inexplicable to the modern, approved secular and naturalistic worldview.
"Know thou that every fixed star hath its own planets, and every planet its own creatures, whose number no man can compute." -Baha'u'llah
"Regarding the passage (in) which Bahá’u’lláh states (that creatures are) to be found (on) every planet cannot be considered to be necessarily similar or different from human beings on this earth. Bahá’u’lláh does not specifically state whether such creatures are like or unlike us. He simply refers to the fact that there are creatures (on) every planet. It remains for science to discover one day the exact nature of these creatures." -Shoghi Effendi
Could Christianity Accommodate a Genuine Extra-Terrestrial Reality? - Michael S. Heiser, PhD
the elites used to fret about how many angels could dance on the head of a pin...
then they worried about the existence of the biblical giants (see the Cardiff Giant for a laugh)
now they get their panties in a wad about aliens....
what will they postulate about once this runs its course?
My own view, for what it’s worth, is first let’s get us some aliens, then see how they fit into whatever theological structure we’re invested in.
My personal pinion is that there are no such creatures, but I see no theological objection to there being such.
Maybe aliens work for God.
Or maybe they work for the other guy.
Christianity is the universal religion.
Just because God did not say any thing about it does not mean it is not out there.
As much as religion screws every thing else up just think of what it could do with something like this.
Alien religion per Hammerism: “Gort klaatu barada nikto!”
Michael Rennie was one of ours.
The whole UFO extraterrestrial thing is like a religion itself. Contact with aliens is looked upon as salvation for humanity. It is like a replacement religion for modern secularists much along the lines of eco types that worship the earth or some part of it.