[When asked if he was serious about not beleiving in life outside of earth]
yes. Here is why.
I believe that Christ died for our sins, and He only needed died once. So if there are aliens out there, and they have free will like us, they would need a savior, which they couldn't have because He already died on our planet.
But if the aliens from other planets, didn't have free will(they were like animals) then they wouldn't need a savior. However, when God created the earth, He put man in change of all animals, and told Adam to name them all. And Adam wouldn't be able to do that if there were animals on other planets.
so, that's my reasoning.
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I guess that answers a question I've had lately. If we were to ever come into contact with extra-terrestrials, would christians accept them as fellow children of God, or would they just see them as a bunch of soulless creatures who, although intelligent, are no more above a garden snail because they are not human and thus not created in "His image"? If aliens ever were to visit this planet, they'd take one look at the fundies who are running this joint and turn their spaceship right around and start hauling ass away from this place without ever looking back.
So, really, you have no reasoning at all. I'm glad we cleared that up.
@FMG: To be fair, Optimus Prime only really died for Hot Rod's sins - he'd have survived otherwise.
It's funny how creationists refuse to accept the possibility of Jesus having been born more than once. Where in the bible does it say that? Obviously, if he was born some other place, you wouldn't expect him to be named Jesus, but why didn't Christians admit it might have happened?
For example, when the conquistadores tried to convert the Aztecs, they told them about Jesus and the Aztecs said, "Oh yeah, that sounds like our guy, Quetzalcoatl." Instead of saying, "Oh, Jesus already came here, let's be friends", the conquistadores thought, "It's a trick from the devil! We must slaughter, rape and pillage these people to show them our Christian love!"
I'm not saying fundie Christians were worse than fundie Aztecs, who slaughtered sacrifices on an almost daily basis, but the general form of the cultural collision is interesting.
They could be extraterrestrial Adams and Eves living in their own Gardens of Eden (See CS Lewis's Out of the Silent Planet and Perelandra)
Jesus' death on Earth could have appeased God for all the sins of all intelligent beings everywhere.
God may have had sacrificial incarnations on other planets.
There may be extraterrestrials but no god.
"so, that's my reasoning." No it's not. You're just a very naughty boy.
Anyway, Adam could call them Thargyzogs, and Clausewitzes, and Beezleburgers, and other alien names like that. All the names he gave to the earth animals, he simply made up. He could do the same when the aliens came along. Except that he's long dead. So, that's my reasoning.
fergus
What would prevent an immortal, omnipotent deity from dying and resurrecting an infinite number of times? It should be no problem at all - and, indeed, no sacrifice at all.
Jesus could easily have appeared on those alien worlds and taught them the Gospel and died for their sins. The idea of alien species having their own incarnations of Christ is a fairly widespread notion in science fiction (C. S. Lewis even used the idea for the Narnia series, where Aslan the Lion was apparently the Narnian incarnation of Christ).
So why would your god create such a giant universe just for a couple of billion humans?
Did you ever think God is a scientist and we're just one of his 'experiments'? That would explain the non-interference bit. But then he would also have to have other test subjects. And who says Jesus isn't a masochist who goes from planet to planet getting tortured to death however they do it. I mean he couldn't exactly show up on Marklar as a human.
Meh, I need my coffee.
Adam: Fosh.
Eve: Fish .
Adam: Su-per-flu-ous.
I put a pile of pennies on a desk and tell you to count all of the pennies. When you are done, I don't say no you aren't because you haven't counted all the pennies in the world, I say thank you because you counted all the pennies that were available to you, which is what I wanted.
Directions: apply to Adam story, dumbass.
- God.
Ah, Antichrist beat me to it!
I admit, though, that I was only going to say "Marklar!" and nothing else.
Confused?
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