Posted on 10/25/2009 5:37:25 AM PDT by Ancient Drive
I don’t have any problem with their being ‘aliens’ or other life forms. And I don’t remember anywhere in the Bible where it says ‘earth’ and it’s solar system was the only creation of God. After all, he was a master scientist.
I do think that labelling ‘aliens’ as being ‘fallen’ angels is a little bit of stretch as we have no clue where they came from. I also think that when God’s ready for the universe to diversify itself he will allow it, but good Lord, earthlings have a long way to go before we’re ready.
I mean, c’mon...we have neighbors on our streets that we eyeball as suspicious characters because we have never spoken to them before. Drop an ‘alien’ into that scenario and an innocent Martian would be hacked to death in seconds!
I think God warned us in several chapters about dealing with ‘spirits’ that are or are not ‘of God’. As for me, I’ll just wait until HE decides to reveal all his creations and not vest that authority in man.
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As if God owes you a full accounting of his actions
I am so glad God doesn’t have to account to man of his actions. “I am God, I will choose whom I will choose”.
Accounting to man would be as making man an equal to God Himself.
We as man have done such a great job to this planet and to it’s people, haven’t we?... especially in the last century.
So, God is still in control, and I praise Him for salvation through His Son Jesus Christ, who washes away all my filthy sins’ through his precious blood that fell to the earth when the Roman’s pierced his side. And, the suffering on the Cross, he bare for me.
There must have been a full moon last night.
This also begs the question; could fallen angels really be aliens?
Whether you accept it or not, there are some reasons to view the “alien” phenomenon in this manner, from a Christian point of view.
Anyone who has taken the time to research Biblical passages pertaining to the pre-flood world will eventually end up with a few non-canonical books such as Enoch I, that tell the tale.
It’s very strange, reads like a modern scifi novel in parts. But, the conclusion that Noah, perfect in his generations as he was, was saved along with his family and breeding pairs of every kind of animal, due to nearly all Creation on Earth being corrupted by these beings, is difficult to avoid.
Then, going to prophectic passages in the Bible ... as in the days of Noah, so will the coming of the Son of Man be.
All manner of weirdness has sprung up around this, as you might expect. But, the basic belief is not just pulled out of thin air, and finds some validity in ancient Biblical and extra-Biblical texts.
It is also interesting that fragments of the Book of Enoch were part of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Translations abound on the internet.
My question is, why would someone want to believe they’ve been ‘’abducted’’ or ‘’taken aboard a spaceship’’? Must be something missing in their lives. And I’ve often wondered if UFOs really do exsist and there are these super-intelligent beings why is that when they come here rather landing on the White House lawn or some place important they introduce themselves to stupid people, farmers out in the middle of no where or some old coot living in a shack some place.
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It’s important to distinguish between the Ethiopic Enoch or Enoch I, and the later Slavonic Enoch or Enoch II. Fragments of the Ethiopic Enoch were found in the caves at Qumran among the Dead Sea Scrolls. I’m not aware of this being the case for the Slavonic, so “authenticity” is suspect. The translation most widely available is Charlesworth, and some deem it inferior. There are later translations made with the aid of these fragments.
For historical, Biblical context, Enoch was a seventh generation descendant of Adam and Eve, in the line of Seth, according to the “begats.” He was 65 years old when Methuselah was born, and was revered in his days as a prophet in his own right.
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a rash of such threads lately.
It really makes one wonder.....
I never limit the power and scope of god........if he could create us, who knows what else he could have created.
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Here’s something written by Jim Gregg in response to this article-
Indeed, the fallen angels are quite busy trying to undermine God’s creation. Originally, all angels were created by God to carry out the specifics of terra-forming all those planets that were and will be inhabited in the future.
Angels are not married, nor are they given in marriage. So, angels are created without all the aggressions we have (They don’t need all those troublesome hormones we have).
We were created a little lower than the angels, it says. They all have their specific areas of purpose. some will handle the garden while others will attend to the development and placement of humankind on inhabitable planets.
But, all those angels (who remained with God) continue happily to obey God. Satan is the author of the flying saucer. They must sit back and laugh at the mysticism that humans stir up among themselves.
There is, without a doubt, life like we humans abounding in the universe. Scientists would be surprised at the commonality of life.....But they would be mostly amazed at the quantity of it. The fact that other planets are inhabited does not disprove God...It proves it all the more.
God continues this very minute to create new planets, to harvest those that are ready to be harvested....and most amazingly to me provides the way to salvage all his creation back to himself.
It’s true about Jesus. He and He alone is the key to our salvation. It’s the same every where in the universe. But be careful to put things into perspective....God calls us sheep. We have our puspose in creation also. We can understand all mysteries and have knowledge of all that is contained in creation and know the purpose of it all....But without love the Bible says that we are like a clanging symbol.
Our ultimate purpose is to obey God....and that’s the undebateable, indisputeable truth.
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Most people?
I’ve never seen any research on that, at all.
80% or so of the populace believes such exists.
I don’t think a Salvation relationship with Christ has any correlation with belief in aliens one way or the other.
I suspect that Pentecostals have a higher percentage of folks who think they are satanic OR who don’t believe in them at all, however.
Please keep up Petronski.
The higher councils of the globalist elite are evidently men entirely. It is “MEN” (using the term loosely) who do the buggering in the initiation right . . . with a purported intense demonic involvement that gives all there a great ‘thrill’ and a much closer feeling to satan himself.
I gather you still think the globalists are nice environmentalists, Petronski?
Yes, the rabidly ignorant naysaying cliques have tended to assault these threads a lot recently.
Or maybe it’s the government disinfo agents are hard up for work and doing all they can to get in a little overtime.
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