Religion and E.T.

Religion and E.T.

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Originally posted by Bosse de Nage
What criteria would you use to establish the veracity of an alien's holy book?
It would be "holy" to the aliens, and by their own criteria.

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Originally posted by leestatic
well, you'd have thought he would've gave up here and gone elsewhere with a new canvas.
If at first you don't succeed try try again.
but i don't think if ET came here they would believe in god, anyway if they came here with all their warp technology and stuff, and made us look stupid with hard evidence of how the universe was actually created would we still believe in god?? i think i've gone off track here
What if you are quite on track? Food for thought since ET is a
matter of faith for the time being too. What if instead of ET
you really have demonic influences? What if the same thing
is true when it comes to ghosts as well? Instead of the spirits of
people you have demonic influences, with the goal of these
spirits to simply be another reason to hide God from those
that do not want to believe in him? As you say, you believe
that if ET comes, more than likely a belief in God will seem
silly compared to what they could bring. As long as people
are kept away from God, the devil wouldn’t care how or what
it takes, if it is a high tech reason with ET, or ghost with the
spiritualist.
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Originally posted by Joe Fist
Fair enough but, as mentioned in the movie Contact it seems like an awful waste of space (the millions of other galaxies, planets, etc) if there was not some sort of other form of life.

Here's just an idea and something to ponder: What if the Christ was actually a visitor from another world that was called "Heaven"? What if Jesus was actually an alien and the Bible was actually some sort of textbook of how mankind should behave?
You a Mormon?
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Originally posted by Joe Fist
So from your perspective and assuming that is true do you think Jesus enlightened those inhabitants on other planets (other humans) with Christianity?
yes

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Originally posted by KellyJay
You a Mormon?
Kelly
No

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Originally posted by Joe Fist
No
If I understand their faith, the universe is populated by gods and
that basically is what occured here. Jesus was the guy assigned to
this place, I don't recall all the ends and outs, but I believe Satan
was supposed to be Jesus spiritual brother or something like that.
Maybe a Mormon will spell it out for us if I got it right or not.
Kelly

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Originally posted by KellyJay
If I understand their faith, the universe is populated by gods and
that basically is what occured here. Jesus was the guy assigned to
this place, I don't recall all the ends and outs, but I believe Satan
was supposed to be Jesus spiritual brother or something like that.
Maybe a Mormon will spell it out for us if I got it right or not.
Kelly
Interesting....thanks for sharing that. Any Mormons here care to elaborate?

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Originally posted by Joe Fist
Interesting....thanks for sharing that. Any Mormons here care to elaborate?
there's also raelism.

http://www.rael.org/

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Originally posted by LordOfTheChessboard
there's also raelism.

http://www.rael.org/
Is it the same theme with just different names?
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Originally posted by KellyJay
Is it the same theme with just different names?
Kelly
Im not sure. The guy claims to have been in contact with aliens that created us and told him how we should live to become like them. He also says that all the other prophets had contact with aliens as well but that their teachings where mis-interpreted and that he is the last prophet. And that he should prepare us for when they come back in 2030...

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Originally posted by LordOfTheChessboard
Im not sure. The guy claims to have been in contact with aliens that created us and told him how we should live to become like them. He also says that all the other prophets had contact with aliens as well but that their teachings where mis-interpreted and that he is the last prophet. And that he should prepare us for when they come back in 2030...
In the mean time, send money so he can spread the word? 🙂
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Originally posted by KellyJay
In the mean time, send money so he can spread the word? 🙂
Kelly
I wouldn't be surprised if he's after personal gains. So he has that in common with jesus, who wanted to be king, if I recal correctly.🙂

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eric von danngen wrote a book called chariots of the gods? back when i was a kid
alot of his evidence has been disproven some of the artifacts he used as evidence were fakes
BUT most of the real compelling evidence was real
makes me think god=ET's
but i would have to check their ip addresses first lol

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Originally posted by aspviper666
eric von danngen wrote a book called chariots of the gods? back when i was a kid
alot of his evidence has been disproven some of the artifacts he used as evidence were fakes
BUT most of the real compelling evidence was real
makes me think god=ET's
but i would have to check their ip addresses first lol
I think I read the dutch version of that book, you mean erich von daniken?

If the piri reis map is real then it really seems to prove that either there was an advanced civilisation living here on earth or that we had visitors.... exiting!

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Originally posted by Joe Fist
Does the world's most common religions have a viewpoint on life on other planets, etc? I was inspired by the "Aliens" thread and I am seriously curious as to what the stance is?
Christianity does deal effectively with any being other than humans. For example there is a strong assumption that other animals do not have a soul and to explain this many christians will go to the extent of claiming that animals cannot think or reason which, for anyone who has had a pet, is clearly not true.
For this reason evolution is rejected by many christians not because of the account of creation in the Bible but because they realise that there must be a point at which monkeys changed from soulless animals to soulfull human beings.
If we found plants growing on mars then obviously the whole question of a sould would be ignored. But what if we found small animals or even semi-inteligent animals. There is always an assumption that "Aliens" will be intelligent and that a soul can only go along with inteligence.
I personaly have no doubt that there is life elsewhere in the universe. Whether there is inteligent life and whether we will ever be able to find or communicate with other life is something we cant answer until it happens.