Gingis wrote:
God created the whole thing, ETs included.
You have just made my point. You’ve never seen any ET’s, but you believe in them. Yet you can’t seem to believe Ezek. 28, Isa. 14, and the other passages about “the prince of this earth,” which reveal planet earth as the place where the grand cosmic fight between God and Lucifer takes place. The grand stage according to the Bible is here on earth, not one of these planets crawling with ET’s that you so fervently place your faith in.
By the way, read again what I said, I didn’t say you believed in ET’s as God, I didn’t contrast faith in ET’s as God, with faith in the Bible. Just faith in ET’s vs faith in the Bible.
I am a PK, my father was a Lutheran Pastor in the LCMS denomination. I have attended church very regularly pretty much all of my life. I have served as an Elder, Head Elder, SS teacher, and the whole shebang. I have read through the Bible countless times, and I have used a great deal of printed materials throughout those church activities. I am 61 years old.
About 25 years ago I took an interest in the UFO phenomenon, and read a great deal of material about them. Some of this material comes from the Federal government or is derived from the same. Some of the material is eyewitness ... and there are thousands of credible witnesses weighing in on this stuff, and electronic instrumentation contacts as well. You have you faith in the Bible and in Christ because of the eyewitness testimony; and, there is the same quality of witness material related to this ET/UFO material.
The material concerning ET/UFO is voluminous and detailed. The witnesses come from all social backgrounds, and many are highly credible. Government documents are very technical and detailed. This makes it very clear that such contact is real, and has been with mankind for some time.
Well, I had to integrate that material into my Faith, or simply lose that Faith. If you read what I read, you would have to exactly the same thing. It is entirely possible that you will have to perform this integration in the near future whether you like it or not. Actually, I'd suggest you start your reading and research into this topic. You're going to discover that God's Creation is a great deal bigger and more sophisticated that you can imagine.