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Talk:Essay:Extraterrestrial Life and the Bible (view source)
Revision as of 03:47, April 25, 2008
, 03:47, April 25, 2008→Clarification: I'm affraid I'm not agree.
Excuse me if I don't understood this well. Is TerryH saying that the existence of Extraterrestrial races implies that the Bible is wrong and vice versa, that if the Bible is right then Extraterrestrial races don't exist?.[[User:Crossx14|Crossx14]] 00:31, 24 April 2008 (EDT)
Excuse me if I don't understood this well. Is TerryH saying that the existence of Extraterrestrial races implies that the Bible is wrong and vice versa, that if the Bible is right then Extraterrestrial races don't exist?.[[User:Crossx14|Crossx14]] 00:31, 24 April 2008 (EDT)
:Yes. The very existence of an extraterrestrial ''race'' implies that [[Jesus Christ]] would have to have died twice—once for us and another time for that race. Or if that other race never fell, then [[God]] would have told them to stay at least a hundred [[Star#Measuring stellar distances|parsecs]] away from us.--[[User:TerryH|TerryH]]<sup>[[User talk:TerryH|Talk]]</sup> 09:36, 24 April 2008 (EDT)
:Yes. The very existence of an extraterrestrial ''race'' implies that [[Jesus Christ]] would have to have died twice—once for us and another time for that race. Or if that other race never fell, then [[God]] would have told them to stay at least a hundred [[Star#Measuring stellar distances|parsecs]] away from us.--[[User:TerryH|TerryH]]<sup>[[User talk:TerryH|Talk]]</sup> 09:36, 24 April 2008 (EDT)
::Excuse me on more time. I don't know about you, but I'm a Christian and I can't agree with you because such categorical affirmation is pretty dangerous for my faith, it's very risky. I could understand your point if you are an Atheist trying to defy my faith, but if you're a Christian too, I think your perspective is counterproductive. Remember Galileo's trial and how harmful it was, and it still is, for the Christian faith. I mean, what if an ET appeared tomorrow and said "Hello"?. Should we throw the Bible to the trash along with 2000 years of Christianity and 6000 years of Judaism?. (Atheists would smile with pleasure). I don't think so, I'm not ready for that. Instead, as a Christian, in order to strengthen my faith, before being charged of lack of imagination, I'd better try to imagine a way to make the Bible compatible with ETs (just in case), to include them, not to exculde them because perhaps by exculding them I'd be excluding myself (I mean isolating myself, becoming a kind of tiny marginal fundamentalist sect, easily destructible because of being separated from the society). That would be a prudent and conservative perspective, not a reckless one. I think it's too risky to stretch my faith far away from what is matter of the Christian faith, its core (Jesus, his existence, his divinity, his teachings, etc). ETs don't matter. They could exist or they could not, but none of both possibilities would invalidate my faith. If I say "to be Christian is to not believe in ETs" I'm creating a new dogma, a superfluous one, hence a false one, I'm adding a new card on a castle of cards upon moving sands. It's too risky. Just a blow and the whole castle of false dogmas will collapse along with my faith. I'd never say ETs are "kosher" nor ETs aren't "kosher" (OK, allowed). For me, to be Christian is to believe in Jesus, and a Christian person could or could not believe in ETs without to stop of being Christian, because my faith has nothing to do with believing in ETs or not, it is not incompatible with them. For me, to be Christian has more to do with being compassionate, which is incompatible with some well known Politics, policies and politicians. You know what I mean, I wrote an Essay about this right [[Essay:About the emotional basis of Political power|here]]. That is my opinion. Best regards. [[User:Crossx14|Crossx14]] 23:47, 24 April 2008 (EDT)