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To: A Formerly Proud Canadian
God created the universe and everything in it.

So if there is other life of any kind in the universe....he also created it.

Doesnt matter if it is a single cell amoeba. The question is how will you deal with it?

Will you reject your faith if other life is found?

60 posted on 07/22/2015 9:56:38 PM PDT by Crim (Palin / West '16)
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To: Crim

it wouldn’t affect me. 2000 years ago, God would not have sprung the existence of other alien species upon people who didn’t even know that the stars in the night sky were other suns. the Bible was written for people at the time to understand what they needed to understand and could understand... it’s not a complete explanation of everything.

we don’t understand the true nature of God, nor do we understand our place in the universe. if God wants us to be all alone, then we are. if God wants us to be part of a larger community beyond our ability to comprehend, then we are. how we feel about it is irrelevant. trying to guess which is the case in the absence of any evidence is pointless. in other words... we know what we need to know and that’s all. which is why a good scientist doesn’t try to use “science” to prove or disprove God’s existence. it’s beyond the scope of the tools we have at our disposal to answer that question. it’s a matter of faith. those who believe do so out of faith. those that don’t also do so out of faith (or lack of). one group is right and one group isn’t. we won’t really know for sure until it’s too late so better to follow God’s laws than not, which is essentially the argument that Blaise Pascal put forth many years ago.


69 posted on 07/22/2015 10:06:26 PM PDT by TangibleDisgust ("To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize." - Voltaire)
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To: Crim
I direct you to this response, in particular, the last two paragraphs.

AFA seeing life, especially 'intelligent' life? I would rather suspect that such creatures would be demons pretending to be 'aliens', to draw people from faith in the Bible.

Laugh as much as you like, but as a Christian, we know that mohamed, if he was visited by a being, as he claimed (he claimed it was the angel Gabriel), was visited by one of satan's demons pretending to be an angel. The third hadith of the first volume of Sahih Bukhari describes how this 'angel' 'pressed' mo so hard that he could not stand it and repeated this several times.

Demons are real and I believe, could and would pretend to be aliens, just to drive people from the Bible and Jesus.

116 posted on 07/22/2015 11:53:44 PM PDT by A Formerly Proud Canadian (I once was blind, but now I see...)
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