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Of course there are. There are millions of inhabited worlds and all are on the path to eternal life. We'll even get to meet some of them as we continue our journey.

2006-11-18 08:40:25 · answer #1 · answered by The Gadfly 5 · 1 1

The answer is no! There is nothing in the Bible to show that life was created by God on any other planets.
Jesus died to redeem the human race from sin, we have no reason to believe that something similar could have taken place
on another planet to redeem some alien race from their sins.

The story that advanced life exists on other planets is an evolutionist concept, which falls at the very first hurdle, i.e. of the origin of first life. There is no naturalistic explanation for the origin of life on Earth, let alone on other planets. All naturalistic origin of life stories yet proposed contravene the laws of nature. In other words they are impossible, without a miracle.

2006-11-18 17:02:49 · answer #2 · answered by A.M.D.G 6 · 0 0

one of the funniest and most profound science-fiction stories I ever read dealt with the idea that an alien race hears and responds to our radio-telegraph signals.

The only problem is they are the inerplanetary equivalent of the Jehovahs' Witnesses or the Mormons and to them, the RT system is a heaven-sent way of evangelising at everyone's doorstep: they promptly clog up twenty-five light-years of distance with the Holy Book, followed by an entire library of sincere and improving religious tracts, and sermons from eminent Quarkians, to bring the people of Earth out of their darkness and slavery.

Stuck for the answer as to what to do about this, NASA consult a Jesuit priest who has made a career from analising the pronouncements of the Qurkian religion. He suggests we beam back a reply thanking them profusely for showing us the light and the way, but we have these few questions we hope your learned preachers may solve for us.

(The questions sent back are closely based on points of Christian doctrine which have caused schism and bloody war in the past on Earth)

Transmissions cease and contact is broken.

Over fifty years later, the same race resumes transmission, apologising for not having got in touch, but explaining how so much of their radio telegraphy installations were wrecked in the recent religious wars and ensuing schisms...

Seriously, the only earthly religion to have seriously considered the question of life on other planets is the Roman Catholic.

The blanket denial mentioned above of there being no possibility of life on any other planet because the Bible is silent on the subject - this is sloppy thinking and it simply won't do. The Bible is also silent on the existence of jet aircraft, steam trains and polar bears, but just because they're not mentioned doesn't mean they don't exist.

The Catholic Church passed the subject onto the Jesuits - the order of priests charged with thinking the unthinkeable and acting as "advocati diabolum".

The Jesuits reasoned that: if there is life on other planets than it must be a matter of importance to find out if Christ's mission was to this one planet only or to the universe as a whole.

We have no grounds for believing the entire universe is fallen from God's grace. Maybe the immense stellar distances involved when one contemplates the Universe, and the fact we have made no contact yet with any other life forms, are proof that we are in an "isolation ward" or a top-security prison, as a fallen part of a universe that otherwise remains in the grace and fellowship of God. When we renew fellowship with God we will see more clearly the wonders of the created Cosmos, and the peoples who today shun us as backward barbarian sinners might wish to make contact.

If any other part of God's created universe is in a state of sin, then God will have made his own local arrangements for its redemption: the distances involved are too vast for Christ's mission to have been more than a "local" one to this Earth. And Christ came in the form of a man; we are told God made man in his own image; what if the created life elsewhere is not in the image of our God (ie, humanoid)? Will it not need a Saviour in its own imaage?

(Clever people, these Jesuits)

2006-11-18 20:29:36 · answer #3 · answered by AgProv 6 · 0 0

If there is life on other planets then there are spirits too. Native Americans believe that all things have spirit. I agree with Native Americans.

2006-11-18 16:38:27 · answer #4 · answered by moire1111 3 · 1 1

First of all, are there other people on other planets? Until we know this for sure, we can't really answer your question.

2006-11-18 16:34:12 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2 0

Good question.I don't know the answer,but if you look up some native American sites,such as the Hopi ,the Sioux or the Cree,you can find out about it there.Some of them are definitely in touch with something.

2006-11-18 16:57:01 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2 1

No. No such thing as a spirit world.

2006-11-18 16:46:37 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0 1

as far as i am aware ... they would have a spirit realm yes..
we arent special ... we arent alone
if other life forms do exist then they too would be energy that lives on after death

2006-11-18 16:33:40 · answer #8 · answered by Peace 7 · 1 1

Well, they are not exactly 'people'. The Bible calls them angels and demons.

2006-11-18 16:33:45 · answer #9 · answered by flandargo 5 · 2 0

guess this would be for GOD to know and us to find out when our time on this plane of existence is through.

2006-11-18 16:35:20 · answer #10 · answered by Marvin R 7 · 2 0

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