(May 28, 2018 at 5:32 pm)Tiberius Wrote: Just wondering how our resident Christians would respond.
The hypothetical is: Peaceful aliens (i.e. intelligent non-humans from another planet, let's say outside of our solar system) make first contact. After getting to know them, the subject of religion comes up. They have a concept of religion, but none of their religions are compatible with Christianity. On top of this, their species made all the advancements that humans did (e.g. invention of writing, the wheel, agriculture, etc.) millennia before we did.
My question is, how would you react, especially with regard to their intelligence, and that their religions are incompatible with Christianity. Would it make you doubt Christianity, or that humans are "special" and made in God's image?
Technically extraterrestrial beings exist in the bible, also known as angels. They are intelligent, they too worship the creator but are not Christian, nor does scripture state that they were made in the image of God.
So who's to say this alien isn't an angel in your scenario? Seeing how the word 'angel" simply means 'messenger'.
