If there's no god as described in the bible, why don't christians accept that god isn't all powerful? Oh...wait, the bible describes god as not being all powerful. So why do christian think god is all powerful?
Hmmm...it seems that if god were an alien then things would make more sense.
If angels are aliens then it would make sense.
God doesn't have to be the most powerful thing in the universe...god can be simply the most powerful that we know of...ALIENS
First, you have to prove aliens are here and active - based, of course, on the concept that gawd and angels interact with human society to suspend natural laws.
"Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith. I consider the capacity for it terrifying." ~Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Throughout religious mythologies, deities are described as "Him" or "Her". Seldom "It". They are also normally human in form, and live on top of high mountains (Graeco-Roman), clouds (assorted), or nowhere (christianity), the only common parallel is that all places were inaccessible at the time of the respective deity's creation or relocation.
If the common myth of a God was to be interpreted as being alien, then that would throw everything about like small pieces of fine china in a toddler's hands. The Bible at least states that aliens do not exist by omission. Man is the only form of intelligent life, or at least higher intelligent life as opposed to dolphins and chimps which also wouldn't exist under a literal interpretation. Therefore, either their God is the only member of his species (and so not a very successful species) or there's horse manure flying around along with the fine china.
My interpretation of the Bible is that it's false and your interpretation, by definition, is no better ;-)
Interesting...so where did you have a chance to review my definition of the bible?
In any case, god as described in the bible has been given colleagues time after time, from gen. to rev.
daniel, ezekiel, and rev. all discuss technologically advanced "beings" with descriptions of "vessels".
So, according to the bible, there are either aliens (non earth intelligent life) or time travelers, or there was a time when humans had advance tech. and became dumbed down.
quote:Interesting...so where did you have a chance to review my definition of the bible?
In any case, god as described in the bible has been given colleagues time after time, from gen. to rev.
daniel, ezekiel, and rev. all discuss technologically advanced "beings" with descriptions of "vessels".
So, according to the bible, there are either aliens (non earth intelligent life) or time travelers, or there was a time when humans had advance tech. and became dumbed down.
*according to the bible*
Actually Ezekiel only *saw* a wheel.
The four horsemen of the appocolypse were riding - um, horses.
Mary appeared standing on a serpent standing on a crown (if I recall correctly - I really try to avoid Rev at all costs).
Now, the chariots of gawd might be construed to mean....However, dumbed down? Um, a bunch of homeless vagrants wandering in the desert for 40 years - had high tech? Don't think so. These things were always described in a manner which *fit* with the current technology of the time (until recently - where the tech is now described as greater). Yet we are still left with the problem of how exactly the *aliens* arrive at our planet through interstellar space and why a species from another corner of our little galaxy would visit our nothing special star. Why would they bother taking the time to visit? We've only been polluting space with random radio waves for the 70-80 years - which would attract attention from any alien species. However, there is nothing of interest with that 70-80 ly range. The voyager space craft can't be that far - it only passed Neptune a scant 14 years ago (I think) and has been slowing unexpectedly. So, why would aliens come here in the first place? Nothing of much interest and now that they might know something of our species - I'd imagine they'd avoid us like the plague and devise something to contain us within our own small region of space.
It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them. -Mark Twain
quote:Interesting...so where did you have a chance to review my definition of the bible?
In any case, god as described in the bible has been given colleagues time after time, from gen. to rev.
daniel, ezekiel, and rev. all discuss technologically advanced "beings" with descriptions of "vessels".
So, according to the bible, there are either aliens (non earth intelligent life) or time travelers, or there was a time when humans had advance tech. and became dumbed down.
*according to the bible*
Actually Ezekiel only *saw* a wheel.
The four horsemen of the appocolypse were riding - um, horses.
Mary appeared standing on a serpent standing on a crown (if I recall correctly - I really try to avoid Rev at all costs).
Now, the chariots of gawd might be construed to mean....However, dumbed down? Um, a bunch of homeless vagrants wandering in the desert for 40 years - had high tech? Don't think so. These things were always described in a manner which *fit* with the current technology of the time (until recently - where the tech is now described as greater). Yet we are still left with the problem of how exactly the *aliens* arrive at our planet through interstellar space and why a species from another corner of our little galaxy would visit our nothing special star. Why would they bother taking the time to visit? We've only been polluting space with random radio waves for the 70-80 years - which would attract attention from any alien species. However, there is nothing of interest with that 70-80 ly range. The voyager space craft can't be that far - it only passed Neptune a scant 14 years ago (I think) and has been slowing unexpectedly. So, why would aliens come here in the first place? Nothing of much interest and now that they might know something of our species - I'd imagine they'd avoid us like the plague and devise something to contain us within our own small region of space.
It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them. -Mark Twain
Try the first couple of chapters of Exodus. It's supposed to be an account of contact with aliens/future travelers.
Ya know, if you put a little hat on a snowball, it lasts a long time in hell.
quote:Try the first couple of chapters of Exodus. It's supposed to be an account of contact with aliens/future travelers.
Ya know, if you put a little hat on a snowball, it lasts a long time in hell.
Huh? I don't remember that when I was reading it. Personally thought Moses was a bit of a (hell I don't know) one of those people that hear odd voices inside their head and actually think something outside them is speaking. (I don't know why I can't remember what this is called.)
It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them. -Mark Twain
One other issue about accounts from the Bible involving aliens is not only where did they come from and why the hell did they bother to come here only to populate our mythologies, but after putting on the show where did they go? All of the examples given in no way indicate alien visitation unless the reader decides to stretch the meaning far beyond what's actually there.
quote:Interesting...so where did you have a chance to review my definition of the bible?
In any case, god as described in the bible has been given colleagues time after time, from gen. to rev.
daniel, ezekiel, and rev. all discuss technologically advanced "beings" with descriptions of "vessels".
So, according to the bible, there are either aliens (non earth intelligent life) or time travelers, or there was a time when humans had advance tech. and became dumbed down.
*according to the bible*
I never discuss religion. The subject is so deadly boring...
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