if aliens do exist, would it prove that we made up our GOD?

Question

i mean...it wouldn't be the same GOD, right?

Answer 1

Faith is remarkably impervious to reason, sorry. The existence of native americans didn't alter the distorted world view, even though the bible didn't mention them, therefore it stands to reason aliens from outer space will have no effect on the faithful.

Answer 2

Good question. But no. If the Bible is true, then God created everything. By definition, everything includes well, everything. Maybe the aliens would not worship Him, or acknowledge His existence. Would that prove anything? How many cultures worship the same God on earth?

Besides you can't "prove" God and you can't "prove" evolution. Both are too big to put in a labratory. There is evidence to support God. There is evidence to support evolution. Adherents to both must in the end accept Him or it on faith.

Answer 3

So if aliens do exist, then we would have to find a way to communicate with them. So many variables exist in alien life:
1) What if they are not carbon based?
2) What if we do not have compatible life forms for co-existance?
3) How will we communicate?

If we find a aliens who are carbon based, breathe oxygen, and speak a language compatible to one on Earth...and they believe in God in at least one of the ways that he is worshipped on Earth-- that would be a compelling argument.

For the record, scientists have figured that there is roughly a 1 in 1 million chance that we find alien life in the universe. Many people say that makes it an impossibility to achieve. Still, those same people play Lotto with a 1 in 47 million chance in winning--- and they plan their retirements on those odds.

Answer 4

There may be aliens. I'm not sure. They wouldn't disprove God anyway. The Bible doesn't mention a lot of things that we know to be fact now. In the age when the Bible was written people would not have been able to wrap their brains around life on other planets (it's still a stretch for most of us). You speak to a simple people in terms that they can relate to. You don't overwhelm & alienate them with information overload. I don't take the Bible literally. I believe much of it is in parable form. There is nothing that disproves the existence of God. There is much more evidence to support his existence. (How else do you explain creation? the existence of all things? My money is on first cause & intelligent design -- St. Thomas Aquinas explains it far more eloquently than I can.)

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Answer 5

They do not have any bearing on one another. It would prove that the anthromorphic godhead was a whole lot less anthro than his believers could concieve. What most don't realize is that if God is all that he is proported to be, God is the ultimate alien. As for the creation myth of the Garden of Eden, wherein God created man in his own image, no one knows what Adam and Eve looked like, but most probably was not like us.

An amusing thought to me has always been, what if the aliens looked like devils, but were totaly non-violent? What a conundrum for the faithful!

Answer 6

You don't need aliens to prove that. Do you really think that a supposed supreme being would have human characteristics? Man made god in his own image and not the other way around.

Answer 7

I also wondered if that happened and people found out that the religion of the aliens had nothing in common with Christianity.

If you're not a Christian then many Christians believe you will go to hell forever. The rules could be different on another planet, but if the religion had NOTHING in common with Christianity, then that would be suspicious because by Christian logic, those aliens might go to hell

Answer 8

No. It would prove nothing. Because even if one's conception of God was entirely anthropomorphic, one could still assert that such a God possesed the capacity to create those alien creatures, or even the alien's God, or that the anthropomorphic God was the true God and the alien God was false. Maybe you are trying to say that the multiplicity of gods would negate the existence of one God? But this does not follow by necessity. One could simply assert, as many have and still do, that there are gradations in divinity.

Your argument is based on a misconception about the identity and nature of God. You are presuming that conceptions of God are necessarily like that of a creature that is like an extremely powerful version of ourselves. Some have conceived of God or the Gods in these terms, but it is a relatively unsophisticated way of understanding the nature of God or adjudicating questions of God's existence. Consider for example St. Anselm's definition of God as being "that which nothing greater can be thought" as a starting point to your inquiry. Or St. Thomas Aquinas' understanding of God as being not a being in the world but the sheer act of being itself. The conceptions of God in classical philosophy and theology use anthropomorphic concepts in reference to God only as metaphors and analogies, they do not assert that God is a being or a creature like ourselves.

No one can coerce you to believe in God. You have to make a prudential judgement yourself about whether or not it is reasonable to believe in God's existence, but it would be a good intellectual exercise to achieve some clarity about what is meant when one speaks about God and questions of God's existence.

Answer 9

If alliens existed, and I do believe they do, the first thing that would happen is that people would go crazy trying to disapprove every kind of religion in the world that is based on gods or spirits instead of them trying to explain why alliens exist and defend themselves.

This is because all that we are focused on right now is trying to get rid of religion by creating our own kind of religion which has humas as the person that resembles god.

Answer 10

God is one and God created all the world


i as muslim in islam God created all the world , i am very sure that it is the same in cristinailty and jewish the 3 religons are from one God and we all must worship one God who created us animals plants earth aliens hell and haeven ..............etc every thing in the world is created by God