Timeline for Does the Bible make any allusions to life on other planets?
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| Apr 4, 2016 at 18:05 | comment | added | Samuel Bradshaw | They'd learn about it through prophets, the same as us. And perhaps they would be visited by Christ after his resurrection. We do have the advantage here on earth of historical record agreeing that there most likely was a man named Jesus who lived and influenced a lot of people, but it's simply through the scriptures and prophets that we know, for example, that he was resurrected and that he's our Savior. It might require more faith from them, but God wouldn't leave them on their own. So, basically, I don't think point 2 is an issue. | |
| Apr 4, 2016 at 8:10 | comment | added | Reinstate Monica - Goodbye SE | @Samuel - indeed, that is my point. But how would they know about Christ's death on Earth? | |
| Apr 4, 2016 at 6:42 | comment | added | Samuel Bradshaw | Regarding point 2, because Christ's atonement on this earth was infinite and eternal, it would not have to be repeated on other worlds for it to be applied there. | |
| Dec 10, 2011 at 3:59 | comment | added | aceinthehole | @user729 anamals may have free will in a sense, however they are not free moral agents. They are incapable of making a moral decision (ie, killing another animal would not be considered murder). | |
| Sep 30, 2011 at 15:55 | comment | added | Steven | I disagree with this. Deuteronomy 14:21 (KJV) specifically mentions that the Israelites may sell meat to aliens ;) (maybe this was to protect them from their mis-interpretting the alien book: "To Serve Man"). | |
| Sep 29, 2011 at 18:19 | comment | added | user729 | Don't animals have free will? | |
| Sep 29, 2011 at 17:44 | comment | added | Mason Wheeler♦ | For once I agree with Marc here. If I understand correctly, it was only a few months ago that we detected the first potential evidence of the existence of another planet sufficiently Earth-like to be capable of supporting life as we know it. And that's very, very far away, and the scientists aren't sure yet if it's a real Earth-like planet or not. | |
| Sep 2, 2011 at 18:48 | comment | added | Marc Gravell | The Fermi paradox is a bit more subtle than "we should have seen evidence of it by now", and is a topic of active research (indeed, as a race we have been capable of such for only a tiny fragment of time). It would seem questionable to suggest this as overly strong evidence in either direction. Or at best, it only makes sense to do so when the audience is well-versed in the science and able to make a professionally-based reasoning of it (i.e. in discussion with astrophysicists) | |
| Sep 2, 2011 at 18:19 | history | answered | Reinstate Monica - Goodbye SE | CC BY-SA 3.0 |