My idea of believing:
Posted on 5/13/2008, 8:10:00 PM by meandog
VATICAN CITY (AP) - The Vatican's chief astronomer says that believing in aliens does not contradict faith in God. The Rev. Jose Gabriel Funes, the Jesuit director of the Vatican Observatory, says that the vastness of the universe means it is possible there could be other forms of life outside Earth, even intelligent ones.
In an interview published Tuesday by Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, Funes says that such a notion "doesn't contradict our faith" because aliens would still be God's creatures.
The interview was headlined "The extraterrestrial is my brother." Funes said that ruling out the existence of aliens would be like "putting limits" on God's creative freedom.
Who ever said it did?
Pope Art Bell XVI ?
PING - interesting...
O.P.I. ping....
8^)
I thought it was pretty much an unwritten rule.
Who ever said it did?
I think they're referring to The Bible.....God created man in his likness etc etc.
All well and good, but let’s not forget that the Devil comes to us disguised as an angel of Light and Good.
I suspect that not ALL Aliens are Good Guys...
Belief in Satanic manafestations as proof of “aliens” or any other “lying signs and wonders” show lack of discernment or worse.
Doubt that there is anything out there though. Otherwise we would have picked up their ‘I Love Lucy’ reruns by now.
My idea of believing:
The Bible doesn’t mention aliens, dinosaurs, or anything other than man’s relationship with the Creator.
Perhaps there are other life forms that have their own covenant with God. It is probably none of our business.
I’d never heard that.
Agreed. In fact there no reason to think that any "alien"(if there really is such a thing) would be anything other than hostile.
So, Dennis Kucinich isn’t in danger of excommunication, after all?
Are we being set up here for the introduction of “extraterrestrial” influences?
Ah, OK. Are they telling us something we should know about?
Only if he came descending out of the sky with a mighty shout...
...and instead Hussein only came crawling out of Chicago with a used car saleman’s pitch.
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