A post someone else made, just made me want to start a discussion on the ideas of aliens, people from other planets, etc and our ideas of God, Jesus and Angels/Demons.
The first time I ever even thought about this on any real level was when I was taking a Greek Mythology course and we were talking about avatars and the like, at the very same time I was taking a philosophy course and started discussing "Did God Create Man or did man create God". It was during that semester that that a group of friends and I started having these very existential discussion which lead to some very interesting questions and dialogue. I have never looked at things the same.
Flash forward to about three and a half years ago and through a chain of events, I am in a room with people from NASA working on a grant proposal. These are very high level people, people that had PhD out the you know what, some of them had helped build space shuttles and design them, one person that had actually been on a space flight. After a long day sitting in a room, we started talking off topic and because of the position I was in, I asked questions directly of them. I threw out about the first time we landed on the moon - there's a lot of controvery over that subject, area 51 (a friend of mine worked at the Los Alamos lab for over five years) and the bottom line question, "are we alone, are there aliens out there that the government is communicating with on a regular basis?"
The response was quite interesting, and that's all I will say.
I say all of that to say, my personal view is that we are not alone in this universe, that there are being from other planets. However, people are free to think what they want on this.
Which brings me to the question of God, Angels, Demons, etc...
We discuss "the heavens" and we say "our creator" and we talk about "angels/demons" as if they are not of this world, well where exactly is the heavens and where is these things that we call "angels" and "demons" and everything in between. Isn't it plausible that heaven is just another planet and that our bible is really a lot of man made justifications and retelling of our interaction with beings from other galaxies and such?
I am curious about other people's thoughts on this. I have more to say, but I would really like to read what other people think.