Posted on 07/01/2011 6:19:36 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
“Besides we don’t need life we can talk to, we need life we can eat.”
I hope the aliens don’t share that feeling when they meet us :)
Planet of the hot wings awaits.
why should the discovery of extraterrestrial life disprove Christianity or God ?
Somewhere I read that "they" had subjected water to immense pressures of 50,000 atmospheres. "They"observed that the water molecules resolved themselves into long double helix forms ~ kind of like DNA. No doubt a new star spewing water would have more than 50,000 atmospheres pressure to work with, but there you have it.
Just a matter of doing some base pair substitutions in those molecules and you could have "life" itself being spread directly from new stars into every nook and cranny of their new environment.
Wouldn't be a question of looking for life as a rare thing but as an overwhelming thing.
Consider that in some sectors of our current universe there are entire galaxies that seem to "connect" that have in some manner suppressed new star formation. There are benefits ~ one of which is this suppresses the production of high levels of radiation, and another of which may be it keeps new stars from producing yet more new life forms with all the angst and terror that probably yields up.
"Empty space is like a kingdom, and earth and sky are no more than a single individual person in that kingdom. Upon one tree are many fruits, and in one kingdom there are many people. How unreasonable it would be to suppose that, besides the earth and the sky which we can see, there are no other skies and no other earths." -- Teng Mu, a Chinese scholar of the Sung Dynasty (960 -- 1280 A.D.) *
Christianity become unraveled? Absolutely not. What do you mean by life found on other planets? Plants, organisms on rocks? If you’re talking about E.T. kind of creatures, or the “Vs” then they would be of a spiritual nature and most likely be demons manifesting and masquerading as E.Ts.
Thank you for posting this very interesting article. I believe that if “space aliens” are real that they are really demons from the pit of hell..Jesus said that people will believe “the lie”..maybe “aliens” showing up are what He was referring to...just a thought..
It really shouldn’t come unraveled. Truth is universal.
It is the teachings of Jesus that should be most important, and that isn’t limited by place or time.
No.
There is nothing in the Christian faith that precludes life on other worlds.
I believe there is life on other planets but animal life not human or intelligent life that is. With the universe this size I can imagine millions(billions?) of planets that are paradises untouched by man’s sin just waiting for us to discover and I can’t wait to discover them.
What is this about, just because ET may not look like us, they are demons?
Amen.
Is there other life? Other “Sheep” using the bible’s term for creations of free will?
John 10:15-16
The Father knows me and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for the sheep. And I have other sheep that are not of this fold; I must bring them also, and they will heed my voice. So there shall be one flock, one shepherd.
This does not neccessarily mean Jesus was talking about people on other planets, but it very well could be.
Maybe intelligent life could be found that simply lives, dies and that’s the end. God can do as he chooses. This should have no impact but it will.
Might be what Jesus has been up to these last 2000 years....imagine having to die for a planet’s sins over and over for thousands of different planets.
Maybe Earth is the only planet where people needed Jesus. All the other planets listened to G-d and obeyed him.
When posed with this question by a couple of well-meaning cardinals about 10 years ago or so, Pope John Paul responded that any planning about that would be very premature. He stated (quote is imperfect):
"...we only know that Mankind sinned; creating a gulf between us and our Maker, thus requiring a Savior to redeem us. Yet, for all we know, any extraterrestrial beings we meet may be like angels compared to us!"
If they followed a similar path that we did, then I imagine God has a similar plan for their redemption.
Gosh, does that mean Christ had to do it over and over again??!!!
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