Posted on 11/04/2014 8:38:50 AM PST by EveningStar
Religions have surprisingly diverse approaches to the issue of possible extraterrestrial life, David Weintraub found. Below, a quick survey adapted from his book "Religions and Extraterrestrial Life: How Will We Deal With It?" and interviews with the author.
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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.
Not necessarily, e.g., C.S. Lewis in the Perelandra books.
How could anyone possibly know that?
God is all-seeing, all-knowing and all-powerful. Why wouldn’t he be able to create other intelligent races?
[ Would aliens have original sin? ]
Only if there was an alien serpent in their alien garden of eden...
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.
Do animals have original sin? They still die. The scripture says "all creation groans." Adam's sin affected all creation.
Everywhere we look on earth and in the earth, we find life. So if there is life out there, I wouldn't be surprised. Did God create a dead universe?
A recent article said 85% of each galaxy is in a dead zone due to radiation, leaving only 15% for potential life.
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.
Would that mean that the Trinity I sreally more than just 3 entities? Would there be; The Father, SONS, and the Holy Ghost?
Is that the person in #7?
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