RE: Christians. Could you be wrong?
September 20, 2014 at 10:44 am
(This post was last modified: September 20, 2014 at 10:48 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(September 20, 2014 at 10:11 am)C4RM5 Wrote: As far as I know Christianity is the only religion to claim that God came to earth as a human.Not even close, it's a very common theme. Some gods actually started out as men - not an incarnation removed or prohibited from expressing their divine nature. Related to this (and sometimes part and parcel with it)- and with an even larger cast of characters- is the notion of apotheosis. You're unlikely to find much of anything that is unique to christianity. Not really an issue, we seem to revel in telling the same tale countless ways.
Quote: It doesn't say in the Bible that aliens were made, therefore ot means aliens don't exist or they are just not mentioned in the creation story.B-mine.
Yup, that's the long and short of it. The bible isn't exactly the best tool for determining what does and doesn't exist. I presume that you do not believe in dragons/sea serpents - and yet the bible not only claims that they exist - they are offered as a proof of gods existence and power (and even more specifically, our impotency relative to both dragons -and- god). After all, who but the lord could fashion Leviathan? Blake expressed an almost identical notion - but he had the sense to refer to a tiger in posing the question.
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