Space Aliens?

[Jeremiahcp]

Would visting space aliens find our religious beliefs enlightened or primitive? Please explain your reasoning.

 

[Quetzal]

Would visting space aliens find our religious beliefs enlightened or primitive? Please explain your reasoning.

Let's break it down. If they visit, we could assume that have technology that far out paces our own. If they are able to explore the cosmos on demand, we can begin to piece together the idea that they have transcended religious belief. On the other hand, they could just as easily have access to answers/resources that affirm certain religious principles. We might never know...

 

[PureX]

Beings that could traverse such distances in space would have already unraveled mysteries that we can't yet even imagine. For them, visiting Earth would be like visiting a primitive zoo, and our ideas about the nature and purpose of existence would be about the equivalent of a squirrel's understanding, to us.

 

[Jeremiahcp]

I think a general notion is that space aliens that can travel to our world will be smarter than us, but what if because of their advance technology they never have to bother with learning things like math or physics. Computers do all the hard thinking and work.

 

[shunyadragon]

Would visting space aliens find our religious beliefs enlightened or primitive? Please explain your reasoning.

Neither, it is expected, the Baha'i Faith describes life, and possibly intelligent life in many worlds.

 

[YmirGF]

Neither, it is expected, the Baha'i Faith describes life, and possibly intelligent life in many worlds.

Heck, I'm still looking for signs of intelligent life on Earth. You guys are way ahead of me.

 

[It Aint Necessarily So]

Would visting space aliens find our religious beliefs enlightened or primitive? Please explain your reasoning.

Primitive.

Clever extraterrestrials wouldn't tell us as much , however. They would come to earth with a Christian Bible and tell us that a Zorkian god came to their planet Zork and left them the same scripture we have modified mutatis mutandis (Bethlehem becomes Zork City, Jericho is Zorkville, etc.)

Imagine the reception they would get and the havoc they could wreak.

 

[Jeremiahcp]

Without the word of Christ are space aliens condemned to Hell? Let's not forget Christ is God's only begotten son.

 

[Jeremiahcp]

Neither, it is expected, the Baha'i Faith describes life, and possibly intelligent life in many worlds.

What does that have to do with my question?

 

[Jeremiahcp]

Heck, I'm still looking for signs of intelligent life on Earth. You guys are way ahead of me.

Your posted reminded me of this song:

 

[Geoff-Allen]

Heck, I'm still looking for signs of intelligent life on Earth.

Someone beat me to it - the Monty Python song

There are intelligent people - if you know where to look ...

On the subject of aliens, here's an interesting site -

Cosmic Harmony, the State of Enlightenment - Stories and Ancient Wisdom of Sages, Saints, Avatars.

Cheers

 

[ChristineM]

Without the word of Christ are space aliens condemned to Hell? Let's not forget Christ is God's only begotten son.

Or the only one he told Mary about. "Of course i love you, you are the only one"

 

[Desert Snake]

Would visting space aliens find our religious beliefs enlightened or primitive? Please explain your reasoning.

They have religions, that vary. Similar to ours. So enlightened.

 

[Jeremiahcp]

They have religions, that vary. Similar to ours. So enlightened.

I didn't realize you were an expert in xenotheology.

 

[Father Heathen]

The aliens will tell us about Zunak and how he snurged for our polgars, and that we must accept him into our hearts in order to save our immortal vythans from eternal fowok.

 

[shunyadragon]

What does that have to do with my question?

i do not believe they would consider the Baha'i Faith primitive, but older religions may be considered primitive, based on their scripture. For me they would be expected guests.

 

[Rational Agnostic]

Would visting space aliens find our religious beliefs enlightened or primitive? Please explain your reasoning.

Any space alien advanced enough for interstellar travel would laugh hysterically at our primitive, superstitious religions.

 

[Father]

if they are far enough above us to travel through space. well off enough to waste time in some backwoods solar system and even more so as to talk with the primitive life on it. they are either Atheistic by nature or by logical reasoning. agnostic as in holding no opinion. or Deistic. as knowing some order or hidden code we dont know. but the odds of them being a theistic faith similar to what humans concoct with a personal wrathful and flawed deity is very small. and i pray to nothing that we are the only life stupid enough to have such ideals and that life elsewhere is smarter.

 

[DennisTate]

Would visting space aliens find our religious beliefs enlightened or primitive? Please explain your reasoning.

Good question......
a related idea is could aliens have played a role in the ways that certain religions
developed?


"What about beings from other planets, do you think they visit here?

Yes I do. And I think those who have been permitted to cross over into our world have been doing so for a very long time now (for a very important purpose) as Divinely arranged by Heaven. Since my NDE, because of a few things I was shown, it is now my deep belief that some of the more phenomenal events depicted in the Old Testament (such as the Great flood of Noah, the parting of the Red Sea for Moses, the mass explosion of Sodom and Gomorrah, etc) are not only very true, but were moments in time which were orchestrated and performed by beings of a much higher order and intelligence than our own "who may have volunteered their technology and understandings or even sent to help guide and shape a culture within humanity during a pressing time within its development and evolution." (Christian Andreason, chapter 2 of online book)

Spirituality

 

[Sleeppy]

We make a lot of assumptions about alien life as it is..