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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If you don’t believe that Christian FReeper...then why don’t you riddle me this:
Alien abduction is violent and more perverse than our little minds can possibly comprehend. If you read up on it, how can these “benevolent” beings do such evil horrid things? Also, why is it that when “aliens” are kidnapping their abductees the “aliens” suddenly as if wounded stop dead in their tracks and flee when their victim cries out or just thinks the name “Jesus”?
It happens every single time too. Why is that?
Read up on it.....there’s more to this alien thing than little green men.
In order for extraterestrial life to have fallen, they would have to have disobeyed a command from God, such as don’t eat from the tree.
To be of God’s children, they would have to have been willing to sacrafice something/someone of high value, like Abraham was about to do. And God would have had to accept them as His children.
To be of God’s adopted children, they would have to be baptised and accept Jesus. And have the Faith that this is good enough for God.
Extraterestrial aliens, if they exist, would have the same status as dogs. Or monkeys. As the intelligence of any creature pales in comparison to God, the intelligence of ET is NOT a condition for entry into heaven.
I would not make the lack of certain piece of scientific evidence a condition of proof. Future technology may be able to overcome this barrier. The Catholic church made that mistake with Galileo.
Maybe aliens work for God.
Or maybe they work for the other guy.
The Bible addresses the creation, fall and restoration of humanity.
God’s relation with and alien race could be alien to us.
Aside from that, ever wonder about the whole back story of angels?
For those fallen angelic beings to be responsible, over the long centuries, for using their powers to dupe men on this Earth into believing that there are alien races from other planets appearing on and around this earth would not be inconceivable at all.
I believe Scripture would easily allude to the above.
I liked “A Wrinkle in Time,” but I didn’t remember it dealing with original sin.
It only sorta dealt with that subject. Each planet had reached a different “level”.
Christianity is the universal religion.
Just because God did not say any thing about it does not mean it is not out there.
As much as religion screws every thing else up just think of what it could do with something like this.
Alien religion per Hammerism: “Gort klaatu barada nikto!”
Michael Rennie was one of ours.
Aliens wouldn’t necessarily even have an eternal soul.
The whole UFO extraterrestrial thing is like a religion itself. Contact with aliens is looked upon as salvation for humanity. It is like a replacement religion for modern secularists much along the lines of eco types that worship the earth or some part of it.
I think we send the greys back over the border to Mexico.
15% ?
It’s worse than that. We are in a specific location in a specific Galaxy that allows us to be able to see interstellar distances close to the time of the Big Bang without light pollution preventing it. There is no other known location we could be at that would allow that to occur at our time of being.
A great NASA scientist spelled it out. I will see if I can look up the reference.
Please re-read my post— I said that I was surprised that believing Christians would DOGMATICALY believe this- e.g. state this as a position of formal Christian doctrine. I personally do believe that aliens are demonic manisfestations for a number of reasons including some Scriptural support; however, I would never state that this is a dogmatic part of Christian theology or cast stones at those who believe otherwise.
You seem to be assuming that I believe that aliens are currently in contact with us, and the various "alien abduction" stories are true.
Sorry, disagree.
That chapter speaks of disobedient angels who interacted with men and, especially, women. So if “aliens” were to show up today, they might be of the same type. But I see no reason to assume from the biblical account that that rules out that “real” aliens might not also exist.
Thank you. :)
I’m a fan of Giorgio A. Tsoukalos, even though I’m a big skeptic.
I really don't think many Christians do... What was written here has much more to do with the Left-wing Media bias against my Evangelical Brothers.
They believe Christians are superstitious morons, on a scale of sophistication from worldly, statue-praying Catholics all the way down to missing teeth Southern Baptists. But make no mistake; they look down on any believer in Christ.
Some even believe that WE believe if it's not in the Bible, we can't believe it or use it, like the Amish with cars and electricity.
The evidence is a necessary condition for the existence of these extraterrestrials. The Catholic church DISREGARDED the evidence. I am honoring the evidence. Big difference.
If they exist, they leave a trace. If no trace may be discovered, they do not exist. Valid logical argument.
Our current technology is sufficient to detect the synthetic signal if it existed. It is not due to want of technology.
Some of his stuff is very compelling...
He is the sucessor to Van Daniken for sure.
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