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Talk:Extraterrestrial life (view source)
Revision as of 22:08, August 21, 2008
, 22:08, August 21, 2008→Salvation rules out extra-terrestrial life?
This article seems to imply that because God sent Jesus only once, and only to planet Earth, and only in the form of a human being, then there can not logically be alien life elsewhere in the universe. I find this puzzling. Jesus was also an Israelite, but does that mean only Israelites can be Saved? <br><br>If aliens exist, then millions or even billions of intelligent beings are now dying on their planets without ever hearing about Jesus! How is this different than the millions of people from all over the world who died before ever hearing about the Gospel? If God created the Native Americans knowing it would be 1500 years before they could hear about Jesus, how is it different than if He created aliens in outer space knowing it would be thousands and thousands of years before they were contacted by Christians?
This article seems to imply that because God sent Jesus only once, and only to planet Earth, and only in the form of a human being, then there can not logically be alien life elsewhere in the universe. I find this puzzling. Jesus was also an Israelite, but does that mean only Israelites can be Saved? <br><br>If aliens exist, then millions or even billions of intelligent beings are now dying on their planets without ever hearing about Jesus! How is this different than the millions of people from all over the world who died before ever hearing about the Gospel? If God created the Native Americans knowing it would be 1500 years before they could hear about Jesus, how is it different than if He created aliens in outer space knowing it would be thousands and thousands of years before they were contacted by Christians?
<br><br>Perhaps the implication of scripture is that it is our divine imperative to contact extraterrestrial civilizations so that they may be saved by Christ! --[[User:Stirlatez|Stirlatez]] 17:38, 21 August 2008 (EDT)
<br><br>Perhaps the implication of scripture is that it is our divine imperative to contact extraterrestrial civilizations so that they may be saved by Christ! --[[User:Stirlatez|Stirlatez]] 17:38, 21 August 2008 (EDT)
: You forget that [[Jesus Christ]] came to save not merely the [[Israel]]ites, but the entire race of [[human]] beings of whom the Israelites make up one extended family, as it were.
: Concerning the deaths of unsaved humans on earth, don't forget that we all descend from one man—[[Noah]]—to whom goes the credit for the [[Noah's Ark|greatest achievement of all time]] in the annals of shipbuilding. The trouble was that the descendants of Noah, in spreading far and wide, forgot about [[God]]. It would take an itinerant shepherd named [[Abraham]] to remind everyone about Him again.
: Furthermore, you don't seem to understand the very special place that the [[earth]] occupies in the [[universe]]. In point of fact, ''our [[galaxy]] lies at the center of the universe.'' One can establish this quite easily by observing three key facts: (1) [[redshift]], (2) proportional redshift (that is, the further away an object, the more pronounced the redshift), and (3) quantized redshift (that is, redshift appears to distribute itself discontinuously and in concentric spheres, all centered on our own galaxy).
: We therefore have no reason to doubt that ours is the only world having life on it. I don't know what other signs you might have seen, or think that others have seen. But I can tell you right now: reports of [[UFO]]s are without exception exaggerated to one degree or another. The truth behind those reports runs the gamut from complete fabrication to another example of the false signs and wonders against which Jesus specifically warned mankind.--[[User:TerryH|TerryH]]<sup>[[User talk:TerryH|Talk]]</sup> 18:08, 21 August 2008 (EDT)