What would you do if we found Aliens, like in the movies, and they walked and talked but they had a God? Two parts of my question here:
1) If the alien religion was exactly (i mean EXACTLY, word for word) the same as one of the religions here on earth and you were not part of that religion, would having Aliens believe in it make you change over to their God's ways? Would the fact that Aliens had the same religion convince you that that particular religion was the "right" religion?
2) If Aliens had their own Gods, totally removed from our Gods, but with similar principles (love your neighbour, etc), would you convert to an Alien religion? Or would the fact that it was Alien put you off too much, even if you belived in what they were preaching?
Don't ask where I got this idea from, it just popped into my head.
OK, so no one cares about what Aliens belive in. I can handle that.
What about this: If we found Alien life, would you support the coming together of religions to make an "Earth Religion"? You get the Pope and all the head poobahs of all the churches no matter how small and they all get locked in a big room together until they decide on a world religion.
Would you follow it, if it was accepted by your church as being "right"?
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I think a big reason people aren't responding to this thread is because they don't believe in aliens. I sure don't.
but here, lemme step outside the box for a second.. what if....
1) I'd believe that the humans learned the religion from the aliens, and was probably false (depends exactly, I try to look at the ideas of a religion, not the institutions)
2) Being and non-Earth religion would definitely put me off. I'm not a Gargaxoplocan, I'm not going to act like a Gargaxoplocan. They have a different history. They're different. Maybe they never fell from grace. Or maybe they're just as fallible as us. Their "miracles" of technology doesn't put them in a holier place.
Wow this is really interesting to think about... lemme ponder it for a while... more later...
for some odd reason, while the word "Ganya" was still just a thought-dropping in my head, I thought it'd only be four letters. But apparently it's five. yep.
have you ever read C.S. Lewis's space trilogy? (Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, and That Hideous Strength) Good reading.
for some odd reason, while the word "Ganya" was still just a thought-dropping in my head, I thought it'd only be four letters. But apparently it's five. yep.
I know most people don't belive in aliens, thats why I said, if it was like the movies, you have to use your imagination. I don't really belive in aliens either, but you have to at least admit it is possible, if not probable.
I kind of got the idea from "Dune" a book I read a while ago, they found aliens and the aliens did have religion and the pople pf Earth got together and wrote an Earth Bible that caused wars and all kind of things until it was finally accepted as the "Earth Religion". I just wondered what people would think if it would happen.
I think to people like the Raeliens (sp? - the group who tried to clone a person) they woudl not mind, because they belive their religion was given to them by aliens, but earth based religions would have a hard time even accepting aliens, let alone alien gods.
Does the Bible or any other religious text make any reference to other life forms, or other habitable planets or anything like that?
I think if aliens had a religion it would function the same as any other religion. Assuming they were afflicted by approximately the same sociological pathogens that humans are afflicted by, their religion would probably teach similar things, and although I would not adopt their religion, I would respect it. It would be a lot easier to accept that God would send aliens a different message than he sent humans (it would probably make me infinitely accepting of pretty much any religion).
But aliens would probably have their problems too, and some of the elite aliens would probably twist religion to make people conform to their whims. Hopefully these are not the ones that would make contact with us, because they'd probably declare war on us if we didn't accept their religion. And if we did accept their relgion, they'd probably use that religion to make us their slaves.
for some odd reason, while the word "Ganya" was still just a thought-dropping in my head, I thought it'd only be four letters. But apparently it's five. yep.
Would the discovery of Aliens effect the way you believe? Would it effect whether you even believe at all any more?
If the Bible (Quoran, etc, etc) makes no mention of God creating other habitable planets and we find other planets that can support life and then find life, doesn't that refute the entire concept of God creating the universe for man and all that?
If God had created other livable planets on purpose, he would have mentioned it in the Bible and if he had created life on other planets, he would have mentioned it. Wouldn't he?
The Bible doesn't say the Universe was created for Man. That's something Man made up for himself to feel like a god. And in my humble opinion, it is the core of our evils. We are just another part of the creation.
quote:
Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? Yet not one of them is forgotten by God.
Luke 12:6
Would he have mentioned it in the Bible if He had created life on other planets? Maybe, or maybe not. We're not God, so how would we know? It's about human history, so why would it mention aliens?
The Space Trilogy by CS Lewis ( Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, and [/i]That Hideous Strength.[/i] ) are very interesting books that touch this very subject.
for some odd reason, while the word "Ganya" was still just a thought-dropping in my head, I thought it'd only be four letters. But apparently it's five. yep.
if we ever discovered aliens, it may affect some of what I believe, for example; all the angels and beast and crazy stuff mentioned in the Bible I would probably attribute to aliens. But that wouldn't debunk the fact that I know God created those aliens too.
hmmmmm... but what if religion was given to us by aliens as some means of control?
.....and the gears keep on spinnin'....
for some odd reason, while the word "Ganya" was still just a thought-dropping in my head, I thought it'd only be four letters. But apparently it's five. yep.
Dekka00 said this in post #9 : Would he have mentioned it in the Bible if He had created life on other planets? Maybe, or maybe not. We're not God, so how would we know? It's about human history, so why would it mention aliens?
Well it is about Human historybut also the history of the earth and the solar system because it was created by God.
When the Bible says that the universe was created, doesn't it say something like the solar system/ universe revolves around the earth (which we have proved wrong, our system revolves around the sun), that God made the stars for some wierd reason (and we have since discovered that they are other planets made small by great distances). So it is possible that if the Bible says there are no Aliens, we can still prove that wrong.
The Bible goes through why God created the Earth and the other things he created, so when he created all those other planets, that was quite a feat, more than making one lonely little planet for us to live on. He created millions (x 10 to the power of infinity) of other planets and other solar systems, other galaxys, maybe other universes.
When the Bible says that the universe was created, doesn't it say something like the solar system/ universe revolves around the earth
no, it doesn't
for some odd reason, while the word "Ganya" was still just a thought-dropping in my head, I thought it'd only be four letters. But apparently it's five. yep.
And God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years, and let them be lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth." And it was so.
Genesis 1:14-15
So they were created to tell time and make calenders.
But I guess that kinda implies that all the other stars were created to tell time on Earth though...
for some odd reason, while the word "Ganya" was still just a thought-dropping in my head, I thought it'd only be four letters. But apparently it's five. yep.
because it's a mathematical and physical impossibility for life to arise from dead matter.
for some odd reason, while the word "Ganya" was still just a thought-dropping in my head, I thought it'd only be four letters. But apparently it's five. yep.
02-03-2004 09:25 AM
