Interesting, planning ahead by the look of it.
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Best way I’ve ever heard it put!
But there's nothing in the BIBLE about life anywhere else in the universe.
WE are the ones created in God's image; and Jesus was sent to save US. For many believers, the existence of intelligent life on other planets seems to threaten that paradigm.
"Hey, no fair! I thought WE were the children of God! So, who was created by God in his image? Was it we, or these freaky-looking stumpy grayish green dudes with three spindly fingers, giant eggheads and googly eyes? And is Jesus a man, one of us like the Bible says, or one of them?!!?!? Or, did God have to create ANOTHER savior in the image of each intelligent species in the universe that fucks itself up???!?!?"
Our brains aren't particularly well suited for processing the existence of extraterrestrial beings, so we tend to get..."creative". ;)
And The Vatican came out a few years ago saying that even if there were ETs not to worry because God created them too. Paraphrasing.
There are a lot of different kinds of heavenly creatures, not just traditional Angels. And this whole universe is a bubble God made for us to play in, so yeah.
The book of Enoic(probably miss spelled that) was taken out during the Council of narcia. It very clearly tell the story of a guy going to another planet, getting taught things no human should know at that time and returning.
The only thing that was left in was that he became the grandfather of Methuselam who became the grandfather of Noah
Enoch is how you spell it.
Correct. God made worlds without end. We have spiritual brothers and sisters on other planets ... and we are the Flintsones compared to some of them.
Look at the book of Enoch.
In Genesis it says Enoch walked with God and he was no more.
There are many times the Bible actually does reference what are considered the sky people, or watchers.
The irony tho is that many of the stories of the Elohem, or powerful ones is likely talking about an ET influence charged by God to help guide humanity.
Right, I think it was ca. 4th century, the Council of Niceae, in modern day Nice, France. Constantine, the first Catholic Roman Emperor, wanted a single canon to unify the church. So they voted on which books were holy enough to make the cut. I would love to see some of the stuff that didn't make it! ;)
You’re correct.
“And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.”
Apocryphal books (disclaimer, also have errors like Bible) shed some light on this topic.
“And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.”
God made worlds without end. We have brothers and sisters on many of them. Christ is the Savior of us all. Apocryphal books’ mention of the Watchers, in my estimation, refer to these peoples. They taught children of Adam to use metal etc. I know, Apocryphal books are a mix of truth and manipulated writings. The Bible is as well unfortunately, though not to the same extent as the Apocrypha. In the process of thousands of years the Cabal has manipulated and removed some of the text. It’s one reason Christ’s use of parables was so genius - not too different from Q’s riddles.
We are not alone in the Universe, that is such an unconscionably self centered perspective it's disgusting
The written, and rewritten, written, rewritten bible? Depending on which King won a war?
Does it say that it is?
I think the question would be if those planets had or had not had a Christ figure incarnate on their planet yet. It could throw the Christian story of Christ being the Savior for all into question.
This is how I’ve heard it put by these scientists.
Could not Christ be the Savior of ALL his brothers and sisters? Including those on the ‘worlds without end’? Is not His Atonement infinite in its reach?
Christian doctrine says God made us in His image. So if we were to happen upon an alien species, which would have comparable or much higher intelligence that ours (which is the most likely outcome, making an interstellar journey is not easy) that would create a pot of questions. Do those beings have souls? Do they exist in the afterlife as well?
They're also made in his image. Although, imagine the Roman’s surprise to meet the head-shaping Mongol Huns for the first time (they would wrap their heads during development, elongating their skulls). They look fairly alien.
Now imagine a race of humans even further distant genetically and culturally. Hollywood corrupts our perspective on this subject - they don’t look like Hollywood’s version, but we’d think they look weird/different.
I don't think they would look like humans at all. I mean they evolved in an alien planet with probably a completely different climate, atmospheric make-up, gravity etc. Sci-fi films always portray aliens as humans with colourful makeup because of the practical limitations, reality might differ a lot.
The responses here would tend to bolster the argument that Christians would be in crisis learning that the Creator is not who they thought "him" to be.