Through out history man and the bible always claim that "God created man/human in his own images". Basically what we're saying is that God look like human. But the thing is that the Universe is vast and huge, there are most likely intelligent being out there that look completely different from us. So what right do we have to claim that God looks like human? Maybe he looks like completely different being?
So If there are other life out there in the Universe, does that basically proves the bible wrong?
2007-09-14 14:43:48 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
The Bible says there are many flocks.. some have interpreted that this means other beings on other planets.. I think that what we know equals about a billionth of a drop of water in the ocean of knowledge.
2007-09-14 14:50:13 · answer #1 · answered by WinterBorn 5 · 4⤊ 1⤋
The bible doesn't say anything about life in the rest of the Universe. Whether there is life there or not, or what form it might take. It only says that God made us in the image of Him and His angels (the phrase is "our image" - presumably he is talking to the angels or some spiritual beings on His plane. Or perhaps it's the editorial "we"). And then what does "our image" mean? All us humans obviously look very different. Presumably he was speaking of our inner nature. I would hope that God is at least nominally human in nature.
None of this makes a claim that there is no life in the rest of the universe, or whether or not it looks like us. In fact, we have ample evidence that there is other life in the universe - the billions of species that share this planet with us!
2007-09-14 15:00:58 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I believe that Christ told his followers "My Father's house has many rooms" or something of the kind. This could also mean that we only occupy one room in a vast mansion of life. God may have created man in His own image, and all other life forms on other planets in different ways. Let us keep in the back of our minds, however, that no-one has heard God say this, and that the Bible has been altered so many times that the books in it probably hardly resemble the original writings.
2007-09-14 14:55:08 · answer #3 · answered by firefysh 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It doesn't prove anything wrong or right. There are plenty of intelligent life forms on Earth. Just because they don't talk, doesn't mean they're not intelligent. There could be animals or other things out there that we don't know about. And maybe the Bible we know only relates to us on Earth. Perhaps other planets have their own Bibles. I'm not religious, but I'm just saying that your question cannot be answered until we come face to face with that which you're wondering.
2007-09-14 14:54:00 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Actually God created life on other planets first in his/her image so what does that do for you? God is not a person. That is misleading. To try to define God so small will take you to the slave traders.
God is everything and nothing and so much more.....
I do not put much faith in the bible for so many men have rewritten it from the original writings of man. God did not write it. And it must have been written by angry men for most of the women in it are treated unrealistically.
I see God in the face of evreyone I meet, for he/she is there! But I do not limit what form God can take.
2007-09-14 15:49:26 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
There is no life there and the Bible is a book made my the disciples and men of Christ and compiled together. But God is the father and head of the universe.... have you ever read the Bible fully? LOL
MG
2007-09-14 21:36:57 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are asking a question assuming that there is other life out there in the universe we still have no evidence that there is anything out there but as to your question the bible says nothing about us being the only forms he ever created but if you are a Cristian then why concern yourself with these thing if you are meant to know these things if they where important to God he would have revealed them to us by know.
2007-09-14 15:53:43 · answer #7 · answered by Big Daddy D 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The existence of life on other planets doesn't prove anything in this regard. Two main reasons exist for this position:
1. Life on other planets could be vastly different from our own. God's revelation to us on earth is meant for us and our particular natures and needs; it need not apply to life on other planets that could have different natures and needs.
2. The image and likeness of God refers to human's capacity to love and share their life with others, just as God did with us. That could certainly apply to life on other planets, in which case we share something with them as well - our natures and our God.
2007-09-14 15:02:59 · answer #8 · answered by Jude & Cristen H 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The image and likeness of God is interpreted theologically as indicating rationality and will, not the physical appearance of a human body.
2007-09-14 14:57:25 · answer #9 · answered by Timaeus 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Well... according to the wacko church I attended as a child, aliens are Satan's minions in disguise...
I think there is life out there, but it's avoiding us because of reasons like disease, different atmospheric/gravitational conditions, or because they might be way beyond us in some way and we are infantile in comparison. Besides, I don't think they would be keen on being captured and studied by us. That alone would label us as savage to them.
2007-09-14 15:59:22 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋