No.
Posted on 07/01/2011 6:19:36 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Why in HELL (literally) are they asking this about Christianity?
The moonbats are already coming unraveled just from being unable to deal with life on THIS planet.
Lots of interesting possible parallels, considering all the possible combinations of cultures meeting one another on this planet.
Frederich Pohl might have some ideas.
(Or, for that matter, what if the aliens are fallen and not yet redeemed; and their redemption (by whatever means) starts after their first contact with us -- but propagates unevenly? What if humanity is the tool used by God for their redemption? What if they have had redemption vouchsafed by God, but (as on Earth) the believers are divided, and they are confused whether God calls them to evangelize us or not? What happens when our believers meet theirs? What if their unbelievers gang up with ours, or they aliens get along with some of our nations or creeds, but not others? What will extraterrestrial help / intelligence services / weapons do for purely terrestrial wars -- analogy to Europeans in the Americas and the shifting weapons / alliances with or against / weaponizing / evangelizing the Indians...not to mention John Wayne.)
And don't even get me started on the idea of how the folks in San Francisco (or Bill Clinton, or Anthony Weiner) might greet the aliens.
As Sherlock Holmes said, it is a capital offense theorize in advance of the data.
Cheers!
‘The Man’ by Ray Bradbury
‘The Man’ is a simple parable involving a prophet who travels from planet to planet; his best-known appearance was on Earth roughly 2,000 years ago. The Man doesn’t appear in the story himself—instead, it’s the story of Hart, a rocket ship captain who lands on an alien world shortly after the prophet’s departure. Hart’s initial incredulity about the Man soon turns into a violent obsession, and he threatens the quaint alien villagers with violence if they do not help him locate the prophet. Hart’s tragedy is that he thinks of God as a destination, something to be found elsewhere. He doesn’t realize that wherever the Man visits, he never truly leaves:
“And he’ll go on, planet after planet, seeking and seeking, and always and always he will be an hour late, or a half hour late, or ten minutes late, or a minute late... And he will go on and on, thinking to find that very thing which he left behind here, on this planet.”
Wrong! It is THE truth.
I certainly agree the answer to the question posed in the topic is "No."
Why would this be a topic......
GOD came to this Earth and saved Man.
God saved us from that which he cast here. God created the Heavens and the Earth.
God Creates All!
Absolutely Not....
Yes Jesus Christ is the Son of God.
Just because there are other forms of life in the Universe does not mean what Jesus tough us is not true. You have to remember a couple of things too. F
irst a lot of the important information in the world was lost. For instance, how were the Pyramids in Egypt built?
Second, when Jesus and God spoke.... People at the time did not know what was DNA was or gravity. So God kept is simple for us.
I do believe Science and the Bible go together. Science tells us how and religion tells us why. So going back to Aliens .... Just like their other spices on our planet there are other Aliens in other worlds. That does not mean does not exist. Absolute rubbish...
Think of this quote from Max Planck,
“All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force... We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter.”
Translation God is behind everything.... So it does not matter if Aliens exist or not.
Exactly right. And this would certainly demonstrate the extraordinary love of G-d... that of all the thousands of worlds He created and turned out “good”, the only one that went “bad” (i.e. earth)... He didn’t just blow it away, but decided to go to a huge effort / sacrifice to provide a way for it to be saved. Unbelievable love.
They will never ever find life on another planet. Even if they did, it would be vegetable, not animal or humanoid type.
Any “Christian” -including the Pope- who believes in UFOs, extraterrestrial life, etc, is NOT a Christian. God created one earth, one universe, one race. God sent his ONLY SON to save the human race on earth, not on Mars or on some distant planet. I wish we cut this empty and wasteful talk about “life out there” and instead, conform our behaviors to the teachings of CHRIST -—H E R E-— ON EARTH!!
One of the most interesting aspects of the Koran is that it explicitly states that Allah is worshiped by all intelligent beings in the universe. Yet we see no spaceships parked outside the Kabba !!!
Or maybe there aren’t any alien races.
No.
INDEED.
Beautiful.
:-)
Oh...so what chapter and verse says that E.T.’s are demons?
Personally, I go with Poul Anderson’s take on this in his short novel “The High Crusade” in which a variety of alien races are shown to “have souls and could be saved” resulting in “a hundred races united in Christiandom”.
If your interpretation of the Bible would cause you to lose faith in Christ when contact occurs with non-human intelligent life, then your interpretation is flawed, not the Bible, not God and not Christ.
That is definitely a possibility.
Freegards
Up until this point, I've always thought of you as being a cut above. This causes me to reconsider my opinion.
Depends on how you want to define God. If you say that God is a deified, Jewish rabbi then, yes, it complicates things greatly.
Jews have always defined God as a non-corporeal being who will never become physical in any way, shape or form. Jews over the millenia have a taken a bunch of slack from the rest of the world for staying adamant over that definition and never compromising on it.
The non-Jewish world has almost always added a physical side to defining their god(s) in order for people to feel close to them.
I know what I’m saying does step on a number of toes here in this forum, but I am not here to do that but just simply state the truth.
So . . . Moses lied?
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