Christians! Do you believe in aliens?

Question

Christians did not believe in many things that were proven to be correct. Some hundred years ago, they thought God resided in the heavens, then people went there and there was no God. So you deluded yourself and said that the Bible spoke of a metaphorical heaven.

What are you going to invent when we are going to contact aliens?

Oh, hyubris, big words!

By heavens I mean the skies. Does not the Bible state that God resides in the skies?

Yes, wierd, it is called positivism.

Deslok of Gammalon - Oh, Chrestian soul, I do not use my mind to wonder? let us apply fermi's principle to God. Where is he?

Jihad Jill - Hi sis

Answer 1

Christianity like all religions is made for two reasons; 1) To keep society in check. If people have no rules given by a higher power then they would run around insanely. not that people aren't crazy, I mean look at the situation in Serra Leone, but those of with moral restraint need a reason why we should restrain. and 2) religion is a good OLD fashion way to give people hope for the future. i emphasize old because Aliens weren't take into consideration when these text were written so people who live according to these texts won't take aliens in to consideration either. When & if aliens show up, they will probably be seen a signs from God as a part of the appoloclyps.

Answer 2

Man went the the heavens? When? I thought they only went to other planets in our solar system. Why should God be where people decide He should be? I don't think Heaven is metaphorical in any way. It has not been proven that Heaven is not a real place.
Also, I don't not believe in aliens. I think if a huge God can create the entire universe, why would He only put this puny little group of people in it? But then I'm not the "usual" Christian.

Answer 3

Yep, I like to believe that there is intelligent life on other planets, but evidence is sorely lacking. Nevertheless, I find the idea fascinating!

We still believe God resides in Heaven. In Hebrew, Greek, German, and English "heaven" has dual meaning. None of the ancient Jews believed God actually lived in the sky. They believed that Heaven and Earth (the dimensions, not the geographic locations) intersected at certain spots in the space-time continuum. This is the only way that the Tabernacle or the Temple can be understood. They were the places where the Hebrews believed Heaven and Earth intersected. In the New Testament, Paul writes that through the Holy Spirit of God, the bodies of Christians and the "body" of the Church are the new places where Heaven and Earth intersect. These beliefs pre-date anyone being sent into space by at least 1900 years. They deal with "heaven" not as the sky, but as the dimension where God and angels reside and "earth" not as the globe or dirt we stand on, but as the dimension where humans, animals, and other matter as we know it reside. The two words still kept their other meanings in other contexts as they do in English and German today.

The "proof" that God was not in heaven was presented by a communist Russian cosmonaut who was sorely uneducated in the area of religion.

To say that there are no extraterestrial biological entities would be foolishness; it is a statement of a universal negative. Simply because we have not seen them yet does not mean they do not exist. In the same way, it is folly to say "there is no God". One may say, there is insufficient evidence for me to extrapolate whether or not there is a God or gods, but to say that because there is insufficient evidence, is must not exist is quite unscientific.

Answer 4

Your question is rude and rhetorical, only asked to harrass and inflame. Also ALL your "information" is wrong. Who went to Heaven a hundred years ago and there was no God? How do you know this? Who told you this? Where do you get your information? Do you realize how insane that sounds? People have been going to Heaven since the beginning of time and no one yet has come back to tell us God wasn't there. And as far as delusion, you seem to have the copyright on that one.
And I do not believe in aliens but I don't go around slamming thsoe who do. I believe in live and let live and not harrassing those whose beliefs differ from my own. You might try the same behavior, if you're capable. Lose the sarcastic hubris and open your eyes and your heart.

Answer 5

Wow. I was planning on responding to this with a fun answer, because I thought it was a fun question.

Unfortunately, it was just an insulting, silly attempt to generalize and poke fun.

EVERYTHING changes with the times. Although The Bible may express some universal moral truths, the fact is that all of it was written during a point in history when mankind didn't have enough knowledge to comprehend the complexity of the universe, the development of life, even the way our own bodies work. We have to learn some things on our own. What would be the point to life if we already knew everything? Our lives would be boring, mundane ... pointless.

Answer 6

First, when they said God resided in the heavens they never meant the places that we have been. The "heavens" is not a specific location but a general location.

Second, I do not believe there is intelligent life. I do think there is possibly plant or life on a cellular level but I do not think that there is intelligent life elsewhere in the universe. If we ever contact intelligent life, which most Scientist believe this is an unlikely happening I may have to do some slight readjusting but we all change as truth is revealed to us.

Answer 7

Maybe we'll "invent" an open and honest discussion with them, share our religious beliefs, and they can marvel at the fact that during mankind's most barbaric and savage, ethnically-divided point in their history, a simple man emerged from the whole bloody mess and brought the radical concept of "live, and let live" with him.

Christians have seen the ultimate alien -- that which is utterly inhuman, all-powerful, and far advanced next to our own carnal and savage ways. All we have tried to do is open our hearts and learn from that remarkable individual. We can only hope we'll be decent stewards of his word when we encounter others that don't know of him.

Jesus said, "All men are created equal." That's wherever we find them.

By the way, I've been in your shoes before, and I respect your honest line of questioning. I would request you be a little more polite in the future.

Answer 8

I'm Christian. I'm also a creationist and I'm an engineer. So I will give you a scientific explanation on what we educated Christians know on this subject, child.

The Fermi paradox is the apparent contradiction between high estimates of the probability of the existence of extraterrestrial civilizations and the lack of evidence for or contact with such civilizations.

According to some observers, the extreme age of the universe and its vast number of stars suggest that extraterrestrial life should be common. Discussing this proposition with colleagues over lunch in 1950, the physicist Enrico Fermi is said to have asked: "Where are they?" Fermi questioned why, if a multitude of advanced extraterrestrial civilizations exist in the Milky Way galaxy, evidence such as probes, spacecraft, or radio transmissions has not been found. The simple question "Where are they?" (alternatively, "Where is everybody?") is possibly apocryphal, but Fermi is widely credited with simplifying the problem of the probability of extraterrestrial life. Wider examination of the implications of the topic began with Michael Hart in 1975, and it is sometimes referred to as the Fermi-Hart paradox.

There have been attempts to resolve the Fermi Paradox by locating evidence of extraterrestrial civilizations, along with proposals that such life could exist without human knowledge. Counterarguments suggest that intelligent extraterrestrial life does not exist or occurs so rarely that humans will never make contact with it.

A great deal of effort has gone into developing scientific theories and possible models of extraterrestrial life and the Fermi paradox has become a theoretical reference point in much of this work. The problem has spawned numerous scholarly works addressing it directly, while various questions that relate to it have been addressed in fields as diverse as astronomy, biology, ecology and philosophy. The emerging field of astrobiology has brought an interdisciplinary approach to the Fermi paradox and the question of extraterrestrial life."--wikipedia

To the objective (or open minded ) person there are several possibliities:

1. Earth is unique-- Earth is the only planet capable of supporting life as we know it.
2. Earth is not unique in that there is life elsewhere but there are no other advanced civilizations in the universe.
3. Earthlike planets are extremely rare therefore any advanced civilizations are to far away for us to contact.
3. Earthlike planets are not rare, there are many civilizations out there but they are so far ahead of us technologically that they do not wish to be contacted.
4. Earthlike planets are not rare, there are many civilizations out there but their form of life may be so different than ours that communication may be impossible.
5. The Zoo hypothesis--we are being deliberately isolated by some advanced race wishing to protect us or cultivate us technologically.
6. We have been contacted but our governments feel that the general public is not "ready" for such a discovery and the aliens have respected that viewpoint.
7. They are already amoung us but we cannot see them (deliberate hiding or so differnet that our eyes can't see them)and our government doesn't know.

We creationists are scientists, doctors, engineers, entreprenures, Lawyers, teachers, etc. Who live by Plato's "Follow the evidence where ever it leads!" You fools have too much faith for us; that's why you accept evolutionary theory w/o question. You say we have no experimental evidence. Since we actually do, it's clear you have not taken the time to look at it, because you are too much of a follower. You have no mind to think on you own. You just regurgitate what is taught to you. Take this quote to heart it may one day open your eyes!!! "There is a principle which is a bar to all information, which is proof against all arguments, and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance--that principle is contempt prior to investigation." -- Herbert Spencer

Answer 9

Every look up at the sky? Of course! Almost every spec of light, is another solar system. True, some of those stars aren't really stars, they might be satellites etc. But 99% of them are solar systems. You can't even count all the stars up there. Now...to say that no life exists in ANY of those solar systems is ignorant. What God would create that much, and so far that we can never get to it, if there wasn't other beings created to live in some of those places? Hardcore Christians out there, I went to a school run by nuns and was force fed their crap and decided to start looking into what I THOUGHT the Bible was trying to say....not the church. Do you realize how many references there ARE in the Bible that sound strikingly like UFO sightings today?! It's all about how you read it. The Bible is one big code book. Think about the stories of "Chariots of fire" in the sky...think of gleaming balls of light... think of even the star that led the 3 wise men. I'm not saying that IT WAS aliens...but who's to say it wasn't.

Answer 10

Heaven is a place that's in the spirit realm,it's God's home ... And yes. I believe in the possibility of alien creatures from another planet. God didn't make all those planets for nothing,it is possible they are planets destroyed by some of God's creatures still unknown to us...They are still discovering solar systems, I'm sure there are planets that man has not yet discovered...