PoetPhilosopher
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What if they showed up with a Bible?
Mind = blown
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What if they showed up with a Bible?
Mind = blown
What if you were James T Kirk captain of the Starship Enterprise and on your main viewscreen you saw...
...wait for it...
Abraham Lincoln!
You mean if someone interpret some of the bible verses to mean that?What if they showed up with a Bible?
But you would agree that the aliens being much more advanced than us, must have been created in the image of God, meaning knowing good from evil, or that they at least got it from somewhere, which could potentially be as powerful as God or at least be able to challenge him in what is good or evil, if they didn't get it from him?
I think its an interesting thought, would it be possible for an alien race to achieve a high level of technological advancement without any concept of good and evil? or would they succumb to war and eventually their own destruction as they would never really knowing when to stop fighting?But another possibility in my mind, is that there could be alien worlds without the knowledge of good and evil, at this particular moment.
I mean so many worlds that they are beyond our ability to count. I'm saying more or less "the number of grains of sand on the seashore," in other words, LOTS. I'm not saying they are in our solar system or even in our galaxy. I just believe they're somewhere in the universe.What do you mean "worlds without number"?
oh yeahThe problem doesn't exist if you're a Star Wars fan.
1. How would that make you feel about God, would it make you feel less "special" as to why these aliens seems to have been created along time before us and that now the whole human race survival depends on these aliens intentions?
2. If it turned out through some advance technology that these aliens were able to speak any Earth language and you asked them about God and they told you that they had never heard or observed anything like that, in their travels around the universe, would that in anyway change your views?
3. Would it surprise you that there are no mentions of aliens in the bible and now they were suddenly here and why God would not have prepared humanity for this encounter?
I agree that technology does not solely decide whether something is older than something else. And the example you give is good, but I don't think it would deliver a reasonable answer in this case. But would allow to offer some other arguments for what you are saying that might be true, that I think would give a better explanation.No as the logic does not hold out. Being more technologically advance does not mean something is older than humans.
Again anyone able to travel through the universe as they like, can be assumed to have the ability to develop weapons equally potent, and them being up there in orbit and we down here stuck on Earth would leave us few chances of defending ourselves.
...ETs doesn't really fit the description of being divine or holy, at least how I see it. So I wouldn't call ETs angles or devils either, because I think it would be hard to classify them as such.