Extraterrestrials

[missmuffet]

10 hours ago, LaurenMay said:

Purely speculative here, but what would the implications for Christianity be if intelligent life was found on another planet out there?

Would it have any impact on your beliefs at all, why/why not?

It would have no impact on my born again Christianity because I do not believe that God created anyone else except for those on the planet Earth. Perhaps they are Satan's demons wanting to deceive.

[Whosoever]

Your question is deep.  The answer is this:  Everything in the creation (the whole material universe) has this one thing in common.  God, Romans tells us, that the entire creation has been subjected unto futility "...by Him who subjected it";  with a capital "H" or GOD!

Why? Because appart from finding God through faith, all other attempts will be FUTILE!  Futility simply means: Always searching, but never finding.  Another way: Chasing our tails endlessly.  Extraterestrials, if they're so inteligent and have figured everything out, what are they searching for...HUMMMM?   Why are they here?  If they have found "NERVANA" why the heck do they need us?

If you say will they are conquerers, well then I say they're searching for power and not happy with what they have, and that gives us all commality doesn't it? FUTILITY?  More, More, More, yet never enough.  

Romans tells us that the creation will come out of it's futility at the revealing of the children of GOD.  GOD is revealed through the Gospel, the good news that God has set us free, and we, His children have been given the power to preach the Gospel and to tell these creatures that they need to travel no further, that they have found their deliverance, for behold, you stand amidst the children and family of our Lord God Jesus the Christ. We have been created to reveal the righteousness of God to the entire creation.  They are no exception, and God does not compromise. 

[Ghostdog]

ive sometimes wondered that. is there life on other planet? maybe not intelligent life but life not the less. i would think that in as big as the universe is that somewhere there is some form of life even if its microscopic

[Tristen]

12 hours ago, LaurenMay said:

what would the implications for Christianity be if intelligent life was found on another planet out there?

Such a discovery would have no "implications for Christianity". The Christian (a.k.a. Biblical) model of reality makes no direct predictions regarding the existence of sentient space aliens.

 

12 hours ago, LaurenMay said:

Would it have any impact on your beliefs at all

None whatsoever.

 

12 hours ago, LaurenMay said:

why/why not?

I have fellowship with Christ. 

At-most, it would give me a new topic to discuss with Him.

 

[NConly]

4 minutes ago, Ghostdog said:

ive sometimes wondered that. is there life on other planet? maybe not intelligent life but life not the less. i would think that in as big as the universe is that somewhere there is some form of life even if its microscopic

And weird as it sounds if our leaders and scientist found microscopic life on another planet they would spend trillions trying to communicate with it and save it's life all the while allowing life on earth to be deliberately killed.

[farouk]

18 minutes ago, NConly said:

And weird as it sounds if our leaders and scientist found microscopic life on another planet they would spend trillions trying to communicate with it and save it's life all the while allowing life on earth to be deliberately killed.

@NConly They can't believe in a Creator to whom they thus would have moral responsibility, but they can believe all that sort of stuff.

[farouk]

13 hours ago, LaurenMay said:

Purely speculative here, but what would the implications for Christianity be if intelligent life was found on another planet out there?

Would it have any impact on your beliefs at all, why/why not?

@LaurenMay The believer's ultimate reference point is what Scripture reveals.

Deuteronomy 29.29:

"The secret things belong unto the Lord our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law."

[farouk]

12 hours ago, Vine Abider said:

My personal belief is that we are it (but I also don't see that the Bible precludes that He created life elsewhere).  So also is my personal belief that many of the various unexplained sightings of UFOs, crop circles and other such mysterious/paranormal manifestations, are generated by the dark powers to deceive mankind.  In these last days, these things may become part of the "strong delusion" to be unleashed on the world.

The point of a UFO is that it's unidentified. Once someone identifies it accurately, then it's sense of mystery dissolves. (Hence it's healthy to staking one's confidence on things for which there is no physical evidence or indeed evidence from what Scripture reveals.

[St_Worm2]

14 hours ago, LaurenMay said:

Purely speculative here, but what would the implications for Christianity be if intelligent life was found on another planet out there?

Would it have any impact on your beliefs at all, why/why not?

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Edited January 26 by St_Worm2

[farouk]

There is probably a link between speculative - as opposed to solidly Biblical - eschatology and UFOs.......... attracts a similar mindset, maybe.... But what counts is what Scripture clearly reveals; and fulfilled prophecy, which gives us assurance of what's to come also.........