Posted on 01/24/2011 8:55:57 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
HERE’S A HIDEOUS EXAMPLE VIA SADDLEBACK.
GOD HAVE MERCY ON US:
http://ponderingsfrompatmos.blogspot.com/2011/01/saddleback-health-fitness-seminar.html
Replace aliens with ghosts or leprechauns and see how intelligent this speculation sounds.
The Faith of Carl Sagan lives on.
I’ll ask you the same thing I asked him...You say it’s true, can you prove either exist? Can you supply proof that would convince anyone, anywhere? Can the proof be repeated? Is it just a matter of what one believes?
“Might as well ask would monkeys flying out of your butt sway your religious beliefs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCf_t9aRgXc
*snicker*
I have an authoritative work from Someone Who knows.
You have your own “experience”.
Well there is the theory that they have already been here, got what they needed, wanted and left. To boring, not $$$ feasible, off the main trade routes who knows.
I've had one Christian fundamentalist Freeper tell me that he would consider any aliens landing as being demons from Hell in disguise.
Does you authoritative work require a belief that it is an authoritative work? Can this proof be displayed in some manner other than words in a book? I have no experience with either magic, demons, fairies, leprachauns, dragons, angels or aliens. If there were any way to experience any of these in the flesh, then that would certainly be proof.
“Non religious people always criticize the faithful for believing without proof. These same folks will except the existence of extraterrestrial beings without proof.”
I guess eyewitness accounts of the ministry of Jesus are not proof enough?
I once heard this discussed on a sci-fi TV series years ago and the response was something akin to, “It just proves that God is even greater than we previously imagined.”
If aliens exist and they can cross the vast distances of space to reach us, who is to say they aren’t making a pilgrimage to Earth where God sent his only Son, Jesus Christ, to save us?
Right now, the show “V” has an interesting plotline going on regarding the soul and one of the aliens asked the Catholic priest if he (the alien) had a soul and the response was if you are asking the question then yes, you do.
But it does say quite a bit about spiritual "life."
When you break it down, there are three (and only 3) kinds of spirt beings mentioned in the Bible: God, angels, and human beings. That's it. I believe the Bible gives us enough information that we can be prepared for any spiritual questions that might arise.
Given that, if space aliens one day appear, we can start by scratching a few things off.
(1) They aren't God.
(2) They aren't human beings.
That leaves as possibilites:
(1) They are physical beings that have no spirt component.
(2) The are not alive (given advances in robotics, special effects, etc... it might be possible to create a device or illusion that would seem to be alive to the casual (or maybe not so casual) observer.
(3) The are angels of some type masqurading as space aliens.
Shhh.
The Good People don't like to be talked about, and they're nothing to fool with.
They just might turn out to be human beings. The Bible does not prohibit the Cosmos being populated by more of us. I think this would be the case even if they don’t look like us. After all, there are many races of us just here on the earth.
I think that would bring up too many logical inconsistencies with what the Bible says.
(1) All humans are sinners (hence all need salvation--including alien humans).
(2) Jesus died once (precludes Jesus incarnating as an alien human on another planet and being sacrificed again)for all (all would include alien humans if they existed).
(3) The Bible states that salvation is though Jesus alone.
(4) God desires all be saved.
Jesus' sacrifice took place on Earth, and the good news of the gospel of salvation is only known on Earth. So any alien humans on another planet would have not access to the gospel and no way to be saved through Christ--which clearly conflicts with point #4 above.
The idea that you could have an entire planet full of humans (or multiple planets for that matter) that had no chance of salvation seems to conflict too much with what the Bible says about salvation to make it a possibility.
Agreed they’re nothing to fool with,
but they are not “good people”...
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