Yes, there is other life out there somewhere. Do they acknowledge a creator as well?
2006-11-17 17:36:51 · 26 answers · asked by ZORRO 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Well, to answer this, we'd have to contact said aliens, which is currently impossible.
The Christian god is a human creation, as are the associated holy days. Furthermore, holy days are based on the Gregorian calendar, which acknowledges one rotation of the Earth on it's axis as a day, as well as it's revolution around the sun as a year, so these dates would be unique to our planet alone.
There have been, and are, many other gods and calendars which humans use/have used, and all of these are unique to the culture in which they arose. If an alien species possessed theistic concepts, they'd likely have their own god(s) and their own holy days.
If they exist, I like to think that most (if not all) aliens are more advanced than us, and hence would be well beyond silly, provincial, fear based concepts like god and religion. Wishful thinking I'm sure :-(
2006-11-17 18:36:14 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Almost all human cultures have some sort of religion so it is easy to suppose that if intelligent life arose elsewhere in the universe that religion would have developed as well. But one has to make the big assumption that other life forms would think like humans do. It might be possible for a species to develop intelligence without having an awareness of any higher power.
From the premise that the universe was created by God there are two ways to reason.
1. God would make Himself known to any intelligent beings anywhere and each group would develop its own religion based on that revelation. (Just as God revealed Himself to the peoples of the earth who then created different ways to worship Him.)
You might be favorable to this idea if you accept the idea that many religions have validity.
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2. Just as the Israelites were the chosen people that kept the knowledge of God until it was time to reveal it to the world so Earth is the chosen planet and someday missionaries must go into space to find and preach to aliens. (As missionaries have gone to the far corners of the Earth.) You are more likely to agree with this idea if you believe that there is only one true religion.
2006-11-17 18:02:55 · answer #2 · answered by rethinker 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I find it hard to believe that God created this entire huge universe and us humans would be the only intelligent life.
If there are aliens, I would think the one reason they would be more advanced than humans is because they know God and worship Him correctly and observe all His holy days and commandments.
2006-11-17 20:19:56 · answer #3 · answered by Reuben Shlomo 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If we do find life, and they worship your god, that would be the first inkling of evidence for a god that I have seen.
I'll buy that there's life out there somewhere, but I won't buy the 'god created the universe' bit. I think we'll find a natural cause.
2006-11-17 18:09:58 · answer #4 · answered by eri 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Bible deals with the man and His other creations on earth. I think the Bible is silent about God's creations on other planets so we have to make our conjecture of aliens based on our imagination. If God decides so, aliens will worship God and be holy.
2006-11-17 17:54:07 · answer #5 · answered by seekfind 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Biblical people were very ignorant. They had a 99% illiteracy rate and they believed that the Earth was flat. They didn't have a clue as to what was going on. 20,000 year old caves have been discovered that show charcoal drawings on the walls of people in flying machines. From 20,000 years ago. When ancient people saw something like this that they could not comprehend, they called it god. How many Biblical verses begin, "And a great noise came out of the sky"?
2006-11-17 17:45:09 · answer #6 · answered by liberty11235 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
One, you're assuming that life exists in outer space. That's an evolutionary assumption, which means it's not a biblical assumption. While that doesn't rule it out completely, I just thought I should state the source of such thinking. I personally don't think there is life out there, and so the question is irrelevant. What proof you have that there is life, I'm not sure, since I imagine it would be all over the news if they discovered it.
2006-11-17 17:40:02 · answer #7 · answered by STEPHEN J 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I believe (1) there are other worlds; (2) they are populated with humans and not some weird aliens; (3) they do worship God - either ours or theirs, depending on who created their world.
2006-11-17 17:46:31 · answer #8 · answered by Rainfog 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you know them, why do not you ask from them?
If there are aliens, that does not change my relationship with my God at all. And I believe that if they exist they are created by God and they also have a free will.
2006-11-17 17:46:23 · answer #9 · answered by SeeTheLight 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are no such things as aliens. The Bible says that Eve is the mother of all living. Yes, God made the whole universe just for us. What a nice God we have
2006-11-17 17:42:45 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋