Posted on 06/04/2012 7:07:34 PM PDT by Mandingo Conservative
Much like evolutionists hope that no one asks where the 'something' came from to evolve.
I wonder how come they never attempted to make the latter two books into films as they did with 2001 and 2010.
you mean medieval :)
I don’t have time for this asininity.
How do we know God has a preoccupation with man?? Maybe it's just words from weak minded men who wrote that centuries ago to make themselves feel better? There was a time when religion told us we were the center of the universe and the sun went around the Earth.
I cannot believe that people ask such ridiculous questions.
Doesn't the Bible say that from Genesis forward??
By the way, I don't disagree with your post. I just meant from Man's point of view God is preoccupied with Mankind.And, of course,when I use the word man or Mankind it includes women.I guess Humankind is a good substitute.
No lightsabers
No AT-ATs
No women in golden bikinis
Seriously, lots of reasons a good book fails to hit the silver screen: script arguments, financing, demographics or politics.
I didn't say that it was.
I just watched it and have two words: “Epic Fail”
Just saw the movie. Engineers are coming soon to check this petri dish we live on called earth. VERY POSSIBLE.
Here’s the problem that I have with the existence of aliens, in principle.
Reason tells us that there exists the possibility of an almost unlimited number of disembodied intelligences between rational man and God. We call these intelligences “angels.”
Amazingly, God chose to save relatively lowly man by taking the form of man and... Well, you know the rest.
But even more amazingly, God has chosen, for all eternity, to unite the Godhead to an (albeit glorified) human body.
This is the method by which He chose to redeem man.
So if another form of intelligent life, similar to man in rationality and free will (the aspects of humanity which reflect the image of God) existed outside of the categories of man and angels, how would God redeem them?
God could redeem them in any way He sees fit. But it seems to me to be incongruous to save one rational species by uniting it to the Godhead eternally, but not to do so for another rational species. If this is not a contradiction, it is at least a tension.
Moreover, reasonable speculation ties the evils of the natural world to The Fall, and of course Original Sin.
As creatures of the same universe, but of different species, how would aliens be subjected to the effects of Original Sin in a just and reasonable way?
I don’t think aliens are “between rational man and God”, why would anyone assume that a sentient alien species is/would be somehow higher than humans?
Aren’t humans a little above the angels according to the Bible?
Who says He's "preoccupied"? I'm sure He's capable of multitasking.
Maybe because a bible written in Spanish is targeted for hispanics, and a bible written in Russian is targeted for Russians.......
In other words, we have enough problems of our own so why bring in other lifeforms in other galaxies to confuse us?
Besides, if He brought up the concept of aliens, who would believe Him?
——I don’t think aliens are “between rational man and God”, why would anyone assume that a sentient alien species is/would be somehow higher than humans?———
Actually, my assumption would be that would be rational, like men.
—— Aren’t humans a little above the angels according to the Bible?——
Not by nature, but when redeemed by grace, I believe.
From Peter Kreeft:
“The very inner lifeof God,God’smind,isproper to God alone,but Christians believeGod - incredibly- haschosen to shareitwith men through Christ the God-Man, who has both human life and divine life. Thus, if they [humans] accept this gift of being adoptedinto God’sfamilyand becoming Christ’s brothers, men are exalted even above angels! Angels have only angel life,which issuperhuman but subdivine. But the blessed, the saved, those humans who go to heaven, have human and divine live, like Christ. They become little Christs - very little Christs, yet very little Christs.” Thisis taken from his book Angels and Demons
Aliens brought your thread back to life.
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