Life on other planets

[someguy]

Just out of curiosity here.  Do any of you think we will find life on other planets eventually?  Do you think it exists and we won't find it?  If found, how would this life fit into God's plan?  I don't mean specifically little green men, but any sort of life, single-celled or whatever.

[Heidi]

In Genesis, it says that God made the stars for man. I apologize for not looking up the exact quote but my time is limited at the moment. There is much more evidence that Christ existed than there is that there are aliens out there. The belief in Aliens simply fits into the human belief system that there must be life on other planets because of how big the universe is. This logic comes from the linear human mind. Man is simply deducing this because of the ratio of earth to planets/stars. Man can't possibly imagine that we are alone because then he would have to answer the question of "Why?" There has to be some mathematical (human) explanation for it. Thus, the search for life on other planets.

[Knox]

Thanks to the Hubble Telescope, we now know that patches of the 'sky' that appeared empty, are actually full of distant galaxies.

I read last month about an Australian star counting project, and the astronomers there concluded that there were 70 thousand million million million stars in the visible universe, a number 10 times greater than the number of grains of sand on all the world's beaches. And that's just the visible universe, the part we can see, which is probably just a portion of a much larger totality.

Those are some fantastic numbers, and it seems inevitable that there is other life out there. Will we ever find it, or have contact with any? Who knows? I kinda would doubt it though, as it is probably just too darned far away.

[Heidi]

Did these scientists actually count the stars or are they simply projections based on mathematical formulas? I doubt that they counted all the grains of sand either. Those theories are based on perception which is also relative. It's similar thinking as lightyears. Lightyears are calculated by the time it takes the light from stars to reach the earth. Yet, who knows if way up in the universe, the properties don't change and time is slower or faster? After all, time is relative. The clock is an invention of man.

[aw]

If there is, God created it and they need Jesus as Saviour.

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[Corpus]

Maybe Jesus has already been there.

[Ambassador4Christ]

If there is, God created it and they need Jesus as Saviour.

aw

Amen

[Knox]

If there is, God created it and they need Jesus as Saviour.

Not necessarily. If God created intelligent life on other planets, who's to say the the same scenario that played out here played out all over the cosmos?

What if on a planet far far away the local Adam and Eve never ate what passes for an apple there? What if there was no tree with a serpent in it to tempt Eve. What if the local version of Adam never fell?

[Corpus]

Knox,

Have you been reading Lewis' Perelandra Chronicles??

[Tibby]

Yeah, or Lawhead's "dreamthief"?

[Knox]

Actually I've only read "Out of the Silent Planet", and that was a few years ago!

[Tibby]

You need to read the rest!

[Royo]

First off, I think your first response was excellent Hiedi.
As for life on other planets, I don't think so. And this is from what I feel the scriptures say.
We are told that God created the heavens and the earth, and then He created man because He wanted children.
The Word says that at the end, God will burn up the heavens and the earth, and create a new heaven and a new earth, and that we will live with Him for all eternity upon this new earth. This leads me to believe that life exists only on the earth, where we will live with Him forever.
I do not claim revelation about this; it is just how I see it.
Love in Christ. Roy.

[Heidi]

Thanks, Royo. I also tend to believe that there is no life on other planets. Even if there is, it is obviously not something that God deems important enough for us to chase after or He would have placed more emphasis on it.

[Whitehorse]

Just out of curiosity here.  Do any of you think we will find life on other planets eventually?  Do you think it exists and we won't find it?  If found, how would this life fit into God's plan?  I don't mean specifically little green men, but any sort of life, single-celled or whatever.

I tend to think not. I think He made this endless universe to reveal His glory, but I do believe God has an infinite number of other equally endless universes and that there is life there.