**General Question For Everyone Part Two**?

Question

Okay so I’ve had many answers to my question here http://answers.yahoo.com/question/?qid=20060920070707AAZIZAO&r=w

And EVERY Christian that answered said aliens didn’t exists because
1)it wasn’t mentioned in the bible
2)they haven’t seen any proof

Am I the only one that finds this hypocritical? I mean Dinosaurs exist but it’s not mentioned in the bible – (I could be wrong but I’ve have several Christians mention this to me.) And 2 they believe in God without solid proof yet why can they not believe in aliens???

Yes there are people that claim to be abducted etc – just like people claim to have seen angels or God. So what is the difference? Are they bias?

Answer 1

Christians as well as every other disillusioned zealot on the planet are not allowed to believe anything outside of their little books.

"Reason is a whore and the enemy of faith." - Martin Luther

Answer 2

I wouldn't worry too much about what some people say! I mean no offence to christians, i know a few of them and they often tell me how they feel sick to the back teeth of what they call "bible nuts" in teh sense that those christians i know actually find out about things of interest to them and practice the basic christian principle which is ... judge not etc... So don't mind them!

I personally believe in alien life and God! I've never seen God if i have seen a spacechip (30 years ago) And no! No little green man, no abduction and i wasn't on my own when it appeared in londonb! in fact somethingwas written in the papers about it the following day! We all knew what we'd seen! It was plain obvious!

Asfor being hypocritical well yes many people are! Trouble is these days ... They seem to be the majority and everywhere as well!!! God help us!

Answer 3

I am a Christian and I don't put people down for what they believe in. I think it's very possible there could have been an alien race at some point in time. Look at the Egyptian crypts where they have found hirogliphs of helicopters and airplane symbols. I don't really know but I do know that my God exists. All Christians are not close minded individuals. We're just that...unique individuals with our own beliefs and our own relationship with God.

Answer 4

There are many Christian paintings with UFO's inherent within the works. I believe one of those paintings is called, "Mary with Saint Sebastian." - I'm sure you can find these paintings if you search the net for them. The paintings are also mentioned in the book, "The Phoenix Lights" about a UFO sighting in Arizona in the early 80's.

The Father made it a point many, many times in the Old Testament that HE ALONE IS GOD ... but Christians reject all that to follow Jesus. Christians will only believe what the want and you're pretty much talking to a wall when you ask them to consider the validity of something Jesus didn't say. - Good Luck.

Answer 5

I think the biggest problem is that Christians, myself included, can assume to know. Some things are just not explainable. I think that there is a possibility that aliens exist. But, if they do, God put them there like he did us. However, that is of no consequence to my belief. Whether or not they exist. Just like it does not matter where the dinosaurs fit in. I am sure in heaven God will have a poster telling the answer. It is interesting to think about though. But, why not just say "I do not know"

Answer 6

It would be fallacious to determine what Christians generally believe according to responses you attract on this forum. There are just too many points where people are being selected for criteria other than being Christian. They must also have access to a computer, be responsive and interested in questions like this, and they may be a contentious sort, as this forum often demonstrates. That is not to say that Christians here are peculiarly contentious, but just that there may be a relative predominance of contentious people of all stripes on this forum. So, perhaps there is a tendency among atheists, and religious people on this topic to cheer or disagree according to their worldview. Others, in both camps, who are less involved with on-line debate, may be more apt to consider and less apt to join in the polarizing discussion.

I am a Christian and a student of the Bible. I see no evidence in the sacred writings nor in the Christian traditions to support or deny the existence of non-divine extra-terrestrial intelligence. I see no theological implications of either position. Until evidence is found, it's an interesting thought, but doesn't interest me further until evidence is discovered. I'm find with looking for evidence, but it has no affect on our lives until there is some reasonable hope of interacting with this possible secular intelligence.

As for alien abduction accounts, it would be interesting to perform personality profiles of large numbers of people who have made such claims. I suspect the results would show considerable more predictability than the results found among Christians. That is conjecture at this point, but it is my current view.

As for people who claim to physically see God or angels, perhaps they would fall in line closer to the personality profiles of the abductees, and perhaps not. That would be an interesting study, IMHO. I still believe that the personality types of even such a narrow group as evangelical, born-again Christians would be far more diffuse than the types of those who physical see God, angels, aliens, travel to other planets, etc.

How do I know? I don't. I speculate, and I would be pleased to see a professional study dealing with these questions. This much is testable, and therefore substantive to discuss in a scientific way and not purely on personal revelation or faith, either the faith in God, or the faith that there is no God.

Answer 7

Personally I don't KNOW if aliens exist. I've never seen one. But that doesn't mean I don't believe in the possibility of their existence. God created a LOT more than just this earth we live on, even more than the universe as we know it. There are lots of things out there (and down here) we have yet to discover. With as much as He created, I think it is very pompous of us, the Human Race, to believe we are the only intelligent species He created.

Answer 8

Dinosaurs were mentioned in the bible, but only breifly, as the animals before, Im not a Christian, I believe the odds dictate we are not alone, but I dont think any aliens will visit this messed up planet.

Answer 9

I'm confused. I looked back at your previous question and saw how you answered it. You believe in aliens because the universe is so large that anything is possible, but you consider yourself atheist? So anything is possible in the universe, but you claim to have enough knowledge that you KNOW God doesn't exist. Why not agnostic?

And still, you call Christians who don't believe in aliens "hypocrites." This is incredibly confusing to me.

(I had labeled myself "alien agnostic," by the way. I also resent you stating "EVERY Christian that answered said something about the Bible not talking about aliens, and they didn't exist, when I specifically did not say those things. You are not careful.)

Answer 10

...One difference I see is this - these folks who claim to have been abducted by some alien -it is usually one and not where it could be checked out. This sounds more like a hallucination or a concocted story.
...Now let's take take Jesus's appearances after rising from the dead - Scripture says He appeared to individuals, to small groups, and to over 500 at one time - these were verifiable events with witnesses, not apparitions. (see 1 Corinthians 15).
...Historic events in the Gospels were carefully checked out. In Luke 1 we read:
...3 It seemed good and desirable to me, [and so I have determined] also after having searched out diligently and followed all things closely and traced accurately the course from the highest to the minutest detail from the very first, to write an orderly account for you, most excellent Theophilus,
...4 [My purpose is] that you may know the full truth and understand with certainty and security against error the accounts (histories) and doctrines of the faith of which you have been informed and in which you have been orally instructed.

...In Acts 1 we read:
...1 IN THE former account [which I prepared], O Theophilus, I made [a continuous report] dealing with all the things which Jesus began to do and to teach
...2 Until the day when He ascended, after He through the Holy Spirit had instructed and commanded the apostles (special messengers) whom He had chosen.
...3 To them also He showed Himself alive after His passion (His suffering in the garden and on the cross) by [a series of] many convincing demonstrations [unquestionable evidences and infallible proofs], appearing to them during forty days and talking [to them] about the things of the kingdom of God.
///////Thanks for hearing me.//////

Answer 11

Yes, they are biased. they have not been taught about aliens, and they have a world view that does not require aliens to solve emotionally dificult problems, such as what happens to loved ones or themselves at death. What this amounts to is a bias for god, and an actual intelligent stand (for those who used point 2) on aliens.