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life on other planets
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life on other planets
A friend and I were discussing the possibility of life on other planets. He said that a dinner guest once asked his mother if aliens from other planets would go to heaven, and she replied "if they have taken Jesus Christ as their personal saviour".  

There are hundreds of Xtian websites that scoff at the idea of life on other planets. They're terrified that we aren't the only "intelligent" life in the universe. The possibility that the universe wasn't made just for humans by an all-powerful being who loves them personally and individually would destroy their entire concept of who they ARE. 

Well, bring on the aliens! I say it's a great test. If these aliens have their own version of a god who died to keep them from going to hell, . . . Xtiens! Rejoice, your churches will be packed to overflowing within the hour.           Smile
"The family that prays together...is brainwashing their children."- Albert Einstein
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#2
RE: life on other planets
Aliens from outer-space would not be descendants of Adam so they would have no need of a savior.

There is no universe in the Bible. In fact, I find no evidence that the biblical writers had the slightest idea of any other planets. In the Bible, there's only the Earth, with the sun and the moon and the stars right here in the Earth's atmosphere. Above that is heaven.

Remember that episode of the Twilight Zone where the space aliens came and gave man a book titled "How to Serve Mankind?" While all the linguists and scientists were trying to decode what was in the book, the aliens offered to take some volunteers for a ride in their spaceship. Just when they were on board and about to close the hatch, a man ran up, "Don't go! Don't go! It's a cook book!"
The god who allows children to be raped out of respect for the free will choice of the rapist, but punishes gay men for engaging in mutually consensual sex couldn't possibly be responsible for an intelligently designed universe.

I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.

Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire

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#3
RE: life on other planets
I remember that episode lol.


Life on other planets is likely.
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#4
RE: life on other planets
(July 4, 2015 at 1:19 pm)drfuzzy Wrote: If these aliens have their own version of a god

I doubt any sufficiently advanced race that would travel millions of lightyears just to visit our dimwitted species would have any need for a god.
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#5
RE: life on other planets
The bible was clearly written only to us earthlings, so we don't know how he relates to other beings in the universe.
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#6
RE: life on other planets
Does he watch THEM masturbate too? O_o
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RE: life on other planets
(July 4, 2015 at 2:29 pm)Napoléon Wrote:
(July 4, 2015 at 1:19 pm)drfuzzy Wrote: If these aliens have their own version of a god

I doubt any sufficiently advanced race that would travel millions of lightyears just to visit our dimwitted species would have any need for a god.
Once they make contact with us, they might feel that need
Quote:To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.
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#8
RE: life on other planets
The word of God can be interpreted to not only say that there are aliens but that they are the source of our knowledge, and suffering, and the reason for our evolutionary jump.
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#9
RE: life on other planets
That's great pops. One question.....
Have you been watching history channel?


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#10
RE: life on other planets
I believe there is a good possibility that extraterrestrial life exists. If intellegent I would like the aliens to be from bizzaro world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bizarro_World
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