Life On Other Planets

by Black Man 10 Replies latest jw friends

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  Black Man

  What do y'all think? The Society has taken stabs at it in the past only to double-talk the issue to death and insert their own prograndized spin on it. I remember one article encouraged peeps to not look for life on other planets, but instead try to draw close to extra-terrestrials that want to draw close to us (Jehovah, Jesus, Faithful angels) or either imply at the end of one publication that Jehovah has a purpose for the universe but that the earth will always be special because this is where his name/right to rule was vindicated.

  But really are there little spacemen/women out there? BTW, hit up www.space.com. They have some awesome pics of the universe posted up each day..........
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  proplog2

  I am very skeptical of UFO reports. Until it happened to me. I won't describe the event but it involved my family, and about a dozen neighbors. I am thoroughly convinced that there are beings from some dimension that are able to visit here and that have a very advanced technology. I don't believe they travel through space like Star-Trek but that they come from some parallel domain.

  When everything is figured out Gods, Angels, Demons are probably material beings with an advanced technology.
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  josephus

  back on the old h20, i posted a thread called,

  GODS AN ALIAN!

  if you try to imagine an alian visiting us, you see a vastly more
  advanced creature that would be able to amaze us with its knowledge, and power.

  now try to inagine the bible accounts of "alian" contact.

  that big chariot in isiah= spaceship.

  miricles= superior technology.

  following a star! pleeeease.

  if you were a superior being trying to talk to inferior creatures
  may be as difficult as us communicating with ants or bees.

  instead we try to learn thier language, and speak to them.

  perhaps the bible is a crude attempt to contact us, and jesus
  is really a mediator between us and a bigger being.

  just my two cents.

  josephus

  of course alians exist they wrote the bible.
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  Mulan

  Does anyone remember the old blue book from dubdom, called "Things in Which it is Impossible For God to Lie"? What a title, right? I remember a little nugget in that book, that said ".....not that the earth will be the only planet ever to be inhabited......." That comment kind of rocked my world at the time. I think it was about 1965 or earlier, even.

  Anyway, I think it is LIKELY that there are other inhabited planets out there. In fact, I think it is naive to think we are the only ones in the vast universe.

  Marilyn (a.k.a. Mulan)
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  joelbear

  I always thought it odd that if there was a creator that he didn't put life on all the planets in the solar system. Also, why not populate a billion planets all at once and show that the one's that stayed loyal to him did the best instead of putting all your eggs in one basket. At the very least you could have created more than one man at a time. Why not just fill the earth to begin with?

  Also, doesn't the fact that 2/3 of the angels stayed loyal to god prove his universal sovereignty in itself. Always seemed odd that the issue would be left up to humans when angels were much more powerful beings and also had been around a lot longer.

  I personally think life is rare which is why it should be highly highly valued. By life, I mean all life, not just human life. I think humans are terribly humancentric. The only life that is important is human life.

  I have a theory that once a planet's life has any one life form that evolves to the point that it can manipulate the ecosystem of the planet, that eventually that life form will destroy life on the planet and the planet will have to start over again.

  Thus, I don't believe intelligent life ever evolves to the point that it can manage intergalactic space travel, which I really think is probably physically impossible anyway.

  There is life out there somewhere but the human race will never meet up with it so we better learn to cherish the precious gift of life we have here on the earth before we muck it up completely.

  environmentally safe hugs

  Joel
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  proplog2

  Until you have had experience with a UFO you will believe the conventional line. I certainly did. But now I at least know there is either someone somewhere on earth that has some amazing stuff or we are definitely hosts to some uninvited guests.

  I am perfectly sane. I am an atheist. I don't believe in alien abductions or direct contact with these entities. But I believe they are hanging around.

  I believe we are going to see a lot more of these craft in the near future.
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  logical

  Of course theres life out there.

  The face, pyramids & canals on Mars didnt get there by chance.

  The earth is full of life. Why would the universe not be the same? Theres most likely a planet supporting life orbiting the majority of stars.

  Jah after all is the God of life.
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  ozziepost

  I thought he was the Creator of life, not the God of life.

  Cheers,
  Ozzie

  "You can know the law by heart, without knowing the heart of it"
  Philip Yancey, What's So Amazing About Grace?
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  trevor

  Blackman

  Most people in England are struggling to comprehend that there is life in other countries. We thought for years there was just us.
  Trevor(Whiteman)

  Logical,
  How would you know if there was life out there? You never go out!
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  blondie

  [Just reporting]

  Here are some comments from the WT pubs...why no life now...but can't rule out life later (space travel...through angel power?)

  *** g90 4/8 9-11 Extraterrestrials-Finding the Answer ***
  What About Life on Other Planets?
  Some influential religious figures have insisted that God would not create any world without purpose and that all habitable worlds must therefore be inhabited. Is that what the Bible says? No. The Bible indicates that it is very unlikely that God at this point has created intelligent physical creatures on any planets other than our own. How so?

  If God did create such beings, he did so before he created Adam and Eve. Such beings either remained faithful to their Creator, or like Adam and Eve, they sinned and fell into imperfection.

  But if they became imperfect, they needed a redeemer. As one essayist put it: “One has this dreadful thought that on Friday [the day Jesus Christ was executed], every Friday, somewhere in the universe Jesus is being hanged high for someone’s sins.” But that is not Scriptural. The Bible tells us that Jesus “died with reference to sin once for all time.”—Romans 6:10.

  What if these beings had remained perfect? Well, when Adam and Eve sinned, they were, in effect, questioning God’s right to rule over a world of intelligent physical beings. If another planet existed at that time, a world full of intelligent physical beings who were living harmoniously and loyally under God’s rule, would they not have been called in as witnesses to testify that God’s rule does indeed work? This conclusion seems inescapable, since he has already used even imperfect humans as witnesses in his behalf on that very issue.—Isaiah 43:10.

  Does that mean, then, that God created all those countless millions of suns (and planets if they exist) for no purpose? Not at all. While we know, considering the uniqueness of Jesus Christ, that the earth is the only inhabited planet in the universe right now, and while we know, too, that it will forever stand unique as the planet where the Creator vindicated the rightfulness of his rulership, what the future holds we do not know.

  *** g73 5/22 15 Is There Life Beyond the Earth? ***
  But what about the other planets? Were they put in space and into orbit for no reason at all? No, we cannot conclude that. All that God does has meaning and purpose. Obviously the Creator Jehovah God has a purpose for these planets, including the planets in our own solar system. In time, he may well reveal that purpose to obedient mankind. We should not be so shortsighted as to think that the earth is the center of the universe.