Posted on 06/09/2019 4:41:36 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
Either it postulated man as god, or aliens with powers far beyond man's (God substitute).
Much of the point of science fiction is to create imaginary realities where there is no God, thus conditioning people into the idea, away from the traditional religious thought.
There is hardly any science fiction in which Christianity plays a substantial part, except to be ridiculed.
We don't fully understand the physical world. Our own models don't yet properly describe what we observe (ex. the Two Slit Experiment). Imagine how advanced we look technicaly to someone from say 500 years ago. Now imagine there are civilizations out there 500 or 5,000 years more advanced than us. I would speculate they may have uncovered a few things we've let to learn.
Sorry; that’s not logical to me. I believe that God is One, just like the Bible says, Belief in the kind of dualism that juxtaposes God and a devil may as well be a kind of ‘demon’ itself, in mens minds.
Vermont Lt is correct in post 30 - humans don’t need supernatural help to screw up. Their unwholesome imaginations do that job just fine.
You claim to know what the Bible says about God. Have you read the entire Bible?
Rule out nothing.
No, I haven’t read every word. But the pronouncement that God is One is pretty clear to me.
No doubt a radar anomaly can be deliberately put onto a radar screen by a Govt. entity
One time while bringing up a boat from the Bahamas to Boston I inadvertently bungled my way into an offshore military operation off Norfolk VA.
The first clue came when I saw on the radar an object coming at me from behind with incredible speed. It turned out to be an aircraft.
Then I stared to get green splats on the screen that kept up until the whole screen was blotted out and I could not see the military ships on the screen.
Eventually the radar screen returned to normal when I was miles from the military operation.- Tom
Exactly. Setting the stage for people to rationalize the events that will occur during the end times.
2. It does claim that God is one. It also claims that God is three. One essence in three persons--the Triunity.
3. The Bible repeatedly and emphatically claims there are indeed demons.
This seems to be a matter of deep religious significance to you; so I’ll leave you to it.
A slow reveal is now underway, with the public being gradually accustomed to UFOs being more than swamp gas and not visits from our space brothers. I surmise that it is more like we are seen as an interesting species, like those tortises on the Gallapagos -- and that we have as much to say about what happens to us as those tortises do as to our treatment of them.
To blame demons for ills is like throwing
up your hands and abandoning any effort to
find out what is really happening and dealing
with it.
Leaping to metaphysical explanations means
not giving it another thought. When Jesus
questions all the avoidance, tell him,
“My dog ate my homework!”
Even in Genesis, the Earth was influence by angels (bene Elohim--בני האלהים) as well as demons.
It has absolutely nothing to do with the Oneness of God.
“The Bible repeatedly and emphatically claims there are indeed demons.”
I grew up with missionaries living in our house when they were back in the states during furloughs. The stories they’d tell about demonic activity — and actual demons — were terrifying. We kids weren’t supposed to hear it, but upstairs, supposedly in bed, we’d lie on the floor with our ears pressed to the registers and were able to hear everything. Then we couldn’t sleep. :(
Fair enough—I’ll drop it. But now I’m praying for you specifically. Before I saw the light I was indifferent, too; but people prayed for me, and God kept working—and that may happen eventually for you.
That's illogical.
Suggesting one possibility does not necessarily mean the elimination of all others.
To a person of faith, aliens/ extraterrestrials/extradimensionals might be demons presenting themselves as aliens.
Or they might not be demons at all and instead be beings from another world or dimension.
Both possibilities can exist without being mutually exclusive.
I don’t read the Bible literally in every respect. I think a lot of it is symbolical, allegorical, &c. I don’t believe that God ‘made the world in seven days’, or the snake-in-the-garden story, for instance.
And I don’t believe in demons, beyond their existence in human imagination - which can become very ‘real’ in effect, if you dwell upon the idea ‘religiously’.
If you’d read the book I linked in post 34, you’d discover I haven’t “leaped” at all.
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