To: Polycarp
I've not read all of this yet, but this much is a FACT...
If aliens are ever proven to exist (Even microbes on another planet or moon), Fundemental Christianity (And many other religions) are DONE!
I'm talking about the kind of worshipers who believe the bible is absolute, literal truth...
According to them, God made Adam and Eve...Not Adam, Eve and Mr. Spock. (Which is my basic problem with any "Religion" who's followers call it the "One True Faith".)
To: Johnny Shear
Fundemental Christianity (And many other religions) are DONE! Thank God I'm Catholic, not a literalist fundamentalist.
63 posted on
12/17/2002 6:50:42 PM PST by
Polycarp
To: Johnny Shear
Did God make the humankind present when Adam and Eve were placed in the Garden ... according to your perspective?
64 posted on
12/17/2002 6:58:19 PM PST by
MHGinTN
To: Johnny Shear
If aliens are ever proven to exist (Even microbes on another planet or moon), Fundemental Christianity (And many other religions) are DONE!Nope.
To: Johnny Shear
It might be noted that man was formed in body, made in soul and created in spirit in the image of God.
Note that after Adam, all man had to suffer death as a penalty for sin. Death in Scripture frequently means a separation. For a bodily death, a separation of soul and spirit from the body. For spiritual death, a separation from God.
Note that unlike man, the angels ahd been created without death. It has been summised from study of Scripture, that since Satan and the fallen angels have already been condemned to the Lake of Fire for all eternity, and that decision made in prehistory, that man's role in this affair is simply evidence testing in a cosmic appeal. Man essentially provides massive evidence in the angelic conflict that His judgment is not only immutable, but just.
In the case of angels, or other creatures, the issue of redemption assumes those creatures had sinned or had come into live as a consequence of sin. Just because God's grace provides a Kinsman-Redeemer for man, doesn't mean the relationship of other creatures with God is identical as Man's relationship with God.
Discovery or identification of 'aliens', especially when they fit the descriptions and characteristics of demons, by no means destroys the Word of God. On the contrary, many of the independently reported testimonies of such encounters are remarkably consistent with Scriptural settings of angelic attributes and conditions.
83 posted on
12/17/2002 8:50:15 PM PST by
Cvengr
To: Johnny Shear
I think you may be unnecessarily drawing boundaries and parameters around things which God may not have drawn in His construction of reality.
LOTS OF PEOPLE for blind, fearful, power grubbing, ignorance etc. reasons try to cram God and all of THEIR system of relating to Him into very tiny, tidy little boxes. God seems to enjoy kicking the sides out of any such boxes I've ever observed. He even had loved ones in the Old Testament break out of boxes He, God Himself, created.
The God I know is quite big enough to fulfill every tiny mark of the Scriptures to the letter AND BLOW OUR MINDS expanding reality in multidimensional directions ALL AT THE SAME TIME.
397 posted on
12/21/2002 9:49:56 PM PST by
Quix
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