by jam 25 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
Thanks folks, all good stuff to ponder. It just erks me
when someone bring up the bible to explain science, astrophysics,
nature. This one friend swears like a drunken sailor, haven,t been
inside of a church in years but she can tell you what the bible says.LOL
I'm always puzzled by the statement, whether from fundamentalists or atheists, that the Bible's message is not compatible with life on other planets. The two subjects simply have nothing to do with each other. So if anyone's expecting Judeo-Christianity to come tumbling down when someone finds a microbe on Mars (not that I expect this to happen), they'll be disappointed. Now, on the other hand, if we find intelligent life, and they're saying, "Who is this God you keep talking about? We've never heard of God", that would be problematic.
However, it's likely that, if there are intelligent minds on other planets, they too developed religion as an answer to their early questions and fears. Even if they've since moved entirely past religion (and we can't automatically assume that any amount of technological advancement will remove the tendency to believe in God), if they once believed in God, then this will be taken as a sign that they have gone entirely apostate as a race, and need to be reconciled with God. Interplanetary missionaries will be promptly dispatched from all major churches to help them come back to their senses.
If it turns out that they have a concept of God, but no record of a claimed Messiah in their history, this can simply be taken to mean that God has not yet delivered their Messiah, although admittedly this will give some Christians pause as they wonder why God would allow this race to advance so far, and contact other planets, while not being reconciled with God yet. Self-proclaimed Messiahs will likely spring up at this point, claiming to be mediators between the aliens and God. And so on and so forth.
Apog:
If it turns out that they have a concept of God, but no record of a claimed Messiah in their history, this can simply be taken to mean that God has not yet delivered their Messiah, although admittedly this will give some Christians pause as they wonder why God would allow this race to advance so far, and contact other planets, while not being reconciled with God yet. Self-proclaimed Messiahs will likely spring up at this point, claiming to be mediators between the aliens and God. And so on and so forth.
MP:
Your statement is utterly wrong. Every priest and king of Israel was a Messiah. DO a search of the OT for the term and you will find it many times. Messiah simply means someone special selected. The problem is the jewish concept of Messiah was a special man a mortal not a god man with magical powers. They just wanted a great leader, not a super man.
In that case; why did he bother create billions of solar systems with planets?
LOL omg exactly, Dismissing servant.
Just ask her to show you the scripture and the subject will never come up again.
smiddy
DISMISSING: According to bible history the planet earth was created before the sun, the moon and all the stars. In that way the earth has a special role in the creation myth in genesis.
LARS:
Not correct! Read again. The Bible clearly says "In the beginning God created the Heavens and the earth." So the earth was already here for who knows how long. The so-called "six days of creation" merely tell us how God made this desolate planet covered with water habitable.
When God said: "Let there be light" he merely moved the Earth to the correct proximity to the Sun, which also was already there.
A lot of people get this wrong and then claim the Bible is unscientific. Read it again. The earth was ALREADY THERE before the six days of creation began, so was the "heavens" and thus so was the Sun and planets. God merely rearranged things for the solar system and made the earth habitable.
