Odd, I see that you have a very strong need to construe those critters as satanic just so you can think you are the ultimate object of God's love in the Universe. I merely see ETs as part of the bigger picture of Creation, which can only be to the Glory of God. You ignore the notion that I think there are good ETs and bad ETs, just like for humans. By doing so, you assume that I presume that ETs are all good. I'm not sure how that supports your argument. You want to assume a supernatural status merely to protect your beliefs. You just can't stand the notion of a larger Creation. You want to be special. I am willing to accept a God with an immagination to Create BIG, you are not.
On the flip side, what if God “created big” universes but alone, amongst them all, he created *us*?
Now *that* is much more awe-inspiring than a whole bunch of “earths” with a whole bunch of “people”.
To be singular in God’s heart, love, mind and infinite creation is a far greater miracle, IMO.
[ever read the Bradbury short story about the astronaut who races from planet to planet for *years* trying to “catch up to the cosmic Christ”?]
Odd, I see that you have a very strong need to construe those critters as satanic just so you can think you are the ultimate object of God's love in the Universe.
WRONG. I started out and went for some decade or so hypothesizing that SOME ET's were on God's side in all this. At some point, I had to be honest with myself and the evidence and realize that the data did not support such a construction on reality.
SCRIPTURE indicates that mankind is God's preferred, crowning achievement of Creation. That's God's perspective. I'll side with God's perspective every time.
I merely see ETs as part of the bigger picture of Creation, which can only be to the Glory of God.
OF COURSE, ET's and all else in creation will ultimately work to God's Glory. He IS that BIG.
You ignore the notion that I think there are good ETs and bad ETs, just like for humans.
WRONG. I haven't ignored it at all. I've said it's a wrong conclusion, wrong assumption, wrong interpretation of the evidence. And I've noted how & why the evidence indicates that.
By doing so, you assume that I presume that ETs are all good.
WRONG. I assume no such thing. I'm asserting that your conclusion that ANY of the 57, or 70 or 90 "races" dinking around with planet earth are good--I'm asserting that THAT conclusion that ANY are good is WRONG.
I'm not sure how that supports your argument. You want to assume a supernatural status merely to protect your beliefs.
WRONG. Though I'm not real certain what precisely you are saying. I have no need to assume anything. I've been happy for 49 years to let the data, the evidence to take me wherever it leads and I've trusted God to help me make sense out of that. He has. My beliefs are secure in Christ.
You just can't stand the notion of a larger Creation.
THAT'S SOOOOOO THOROUGHLY WRONG! THIS IS SOOOOO LAUGHABLE. I gather you haven't paid that close attention to my postings over the years hereon. I'm usually the one asserting that someone's trying to put God in too tiny a box. You don't seem to have a clue about me and what I can and can't stand about much of anything. Your assumptions about me are striking out far more than I would have ever expected of you.
You want to be special.
That's not an issue. God has made me and every other human special and He's said so. I'll choose HIS construction on reality every time.
Scripture says--which of the angels has He said, sit here and rule with me . . . yet humans who trust in Christ and love God unsurpassingly can count on ruling and reigning with Christ--evidently over vast rules and endless ages.
One can continue to deny God's Words in Scripture as long as one can get away with it. I don't advise it, however.
I am willing to accept a God with an immagination to Create BIG, you are not.
YOU ARE VERY WHOLESALE WRONG ABOUT ME YET AGAIN. I suspect my willingness to understand God's vast propensity to CREATE BIG may be larger than yours.