How would religions react to a direct message/encounter with aliens?

[Mudda]

God is an alien.

I believe He believes we are the aliens.


a·li·en
ˈālēən/
adjective

1. 1.
   belonging to a foreign country or nation.

What foreign country do you live in?

 

[Mudda]

God is an extra-terrestrial.

 

[ding]

God is an alien.

I believe He believes we are the aliens.


a·li·en
ˈālēən/
adjective

1. 1.
   belonging to a foreign country or nation.

What foreign country do you live in?

Lol. AMERICA

 

[RWNJ]

How would religions react to a direct message/encounter with aliens?
So let's just say that an alien spaceship came down and visited Earth. The event was broadcasted all over the media. The aliens were friendly and had about 24th century Technology. They offered to give us their space travel technology in exchange for all the information we know about everything. How would religions react to such an encounter? Would the pope give up?

Since such an event will probably never happen, I see no reason to answer the question. However, there is nothing in the Bible that rules out the existence of life on other worlds. It also does not mention life on other worlds. So the appearance of aliens would mean nothing, as far as my faith in God goes.

Now, here's a question for you. How would you react if those aliens were Christians?

 

[RetiredGySgt]

How would religions react to a direct message/encounter with aliens?
So let's just say that an alien spaceship came down and visited Earth. The event was broadcasted all over the media. The aliens were friendly and had about 24th century Technology. They offered to give us their space travel technology in exchange for all the information we know about everything. How would religions react to such an encounter? Would the pope give up?

There is nothing in the Bible that precludes other advanced civilizations in the Stars.

 

[Mudda]

God is an alien.

I believe He believes we are the aliens.


a·li·en
ˈālēən/
adjective

1. 1.
   belonging to a foreign country or nation.

What foreign country do you live in?

Lol. AMERICA

Poor you.

 

[hobelim]

How would religions react to a direct message/encounter with aliens?
So let's just say that an alien spaceship came down and visited Earth. The event was broadcasted all over the media. The aliens were friendly and had about 24th century Technology. They offered to give us their space travel technology in exchange for all the information we know about everything. How would religions react to such an encounter? Would the pope give up?

It wouldn't happen that way. When any of the prophets, Jesus included, heard from God, made contact with strange creatures, and were inspired to prophecy they were already adults who previously lived their entire lives in darkness like everyone else..

They all had their 40 days and 40 nights questioning their sanity, being prepared and tested in the wilderness.

After this they became avatars, an alien/human hybrid if you will, a strange new creature who brought news of a higher form of intelligent life and better way of living like priceless treasure gifted from another world. Even Jesus clearly stated that his kingdom was not of this world.

What would religious leaders want to do?


Persecute, kill them, and then honor their lives to show how much they are loved through the ritual celebration of their slaughter........its a tradition!

 

[ding]

God is an alien.

I believe He believes we are the aliens.


a·li·en
ˈālēən/
adjective

1. 1.
   belonging to a foreign country or nation.

What foreign country do you live in?

Lol. AMERICA

Poor you.

Blessed are the poor of spirit. We have chosen the better portion and it will not be taken away.

 

[Mudda]

God is an alien.

I believe He believes we are the aliens.


a·li·en
ˈālēən/
adjective

1. 1.
   belonging to a foreign country or nation.

What foreign country do you live in?

Lol. AMERICA

Poor you.

Blessed are the poor of spirit. We have chosen the better portion and it will not be taken away.

Mexicans already have the southwest.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

"They're made out of meat."

"Meat?"

"Meat. They're made out of meat."

"Meat?"

"There's no doubt about it. We picked up several from different parts of the planet, took them aboard our recon vessels, and probed them all the way through. They're completely meat."

"That's impossible. What about the radio signals? The messages to the stars?"

"They use the radio waves to talk, but the signals don't come from them. The signals come from machines."

"So who made the machines? That's who we want to contact."

"They made the machines. That's what I'm trying to tell you. Meat made the machines."

"That's ridiculous. How can meat make a machine? You're asking me to believe in sentient meat."

"I'm not asking you, I'm telling you. These creatures are the only sentient race in that sector and they're made out of meat."

"Maybe they're like the orfolei. You know, a carbon-based intelligence that goes through a meat stage."

"Nope. They're born meat and they die meat. We studied them for several of their life spans, which didn't take long. Do you have any idea what's the life span of meat?"

"Spare me. Okay, maybe they're only part meat. You know, like the weddilei. A meat head with an electron plasma brain inside."

"Nope. We thought of that, since they do have meat heads, like the weddilei. But I told you, we probed them. They're meat all the way through."

"No brain?"

"Oh, there's a brain all right. It's just that the brain is made out of meat! That's what I've been trying to tell you."

"So ... what does the thinking?"

"You're not understanding, are you? You're refusing to deal with what I'm telling you. The brain does the thinking. The meat."

"Thinking meat! You're asking me to believe in thinking meat!"

"Yes, thinking meat! Conscious meat! Loving meat. Dreaming meat. The meat is the whole deal! Are you beginning to get the picture or do I have to start all over?"

"Omigod. You're serious then. They're made out of meat."

"Thank you. Finally. Yes. They are indeed made out of meat. And they've been trying to get in touch with us for almost a hundred of their years."

"Omigod. So what does this meat have in mind?"

"First it wants to talk to us. Then I imagine it wants to explore the Universe, contact other sentiences, swap ideas and information. The usual."

"We're supposed to talk to meat."

"That's the idea. That's the message they're sending out by radio. 'Hello. Anyone out there. Anybody home.' That sort of thing."

"They actually do talk, then. They use words, ideas, concepts?"
"Oh, yes. Except they do it with meat."

"I thought you just told me they used radio."

"They do, but what do you think is on the radio? Meat sounds. You know how when you slap or flap meat, it makes a noise? They talk by flapping their meat at each other. They can even sing by squirting air through their meat."

"Omigod. Singing meat. This is altogether too much. So what do you advise?"

"Officially or unofficially?"

"Both."

"Officially, we are required to contact, welcome and log in any and all sentient races or multibeings in this quadrant of the Universe, without prejudice, fear or favor. Unofficially, I advise that we erase the records and forget the whole thing."

"I was hoping you would say that."

"It seems harsh, but there is a limit. Do we really want to make contact with meat?"

"I agree one hundred percent. What's there to say? 'Hello, meat. How's it going?' But will this work? How many planets are we dealing with here?"

"Just one. They can travel to other planets in special meat containers, but they can't live on them. And being meat, they can only travel through C space. Which limits them to the speed of light and makes the possibility of their ever making contact pretty slim. Infinitesimal, in fact."

"So we just pretend there's no one home in the Universe."

"That's it."

"Cruel. But you said it yourself, who wants to meet meat? And the ones who have been aboard our vessels, the ones you probed? You're sure they won't remember?"

"They'll be considered crackpots if they do. We went into their heads and smoothed out their meat so that we're just a dream to them."

"A dream to meat! How strangely appropriate, that we should be meat's dream."

"And we marked the entire sector unoccupied."

"Good. Agreed, officially and unofficially. Case closed. Any others? Anyone interesting on that side of the galaxy?"

"Yes, a rather shy but sweet hydrogen core cluster intelligence in a class nine star in G445 zone. Was in contact two galactic rotations ago, wants to be friendly again."

"They always come around."

"And why not? Imagine how unbearably, how unutterably cold the Universe would be if one were all alone ..."

MIKE!!!!

That's one of the best posts ever!!

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Just finished reading "Saturn Run" excellent plausible sci-fi and given the ship recently caught exiting F ring, very timely as well

 

[miketx]

How would religions react to a direct message/encounter with aliens?
So let's just say that an alien spaceship came down and visited Earth. The event was broadcasted all over the media. The aliens were friendly and had about 24th century Technology. They offered to give us their space travel technology in exchange for all the information we know about everything. How would religions react to such an encounter? Would the pope give up?

Probably say hello and offer donuts, like everyone else. Why would it make a difference to the religious?

Man, some people are so dense as to be totally unreachable. Because the bible states that we are created in the image of God, and if little green men from Zork come down with three heads four eyes and who knows what else, what's that gonna do to the concept of being made in the image of our creator? Now, spin and deflect!

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

How would religions react to a direct message/encounter with aliens?
So let's just say that an alien spaceship came down and visited Earth. The event was broadcasted all over the media. The aliens were friendly and had about 24th century Technology. They offered to give us their space travel technology in exchange for all the information we know about everything. How would religions react to such an encounter? Would the pope give up?

Probably say hello and offer donuts, like everyone else. Why would it make a difference to the religious?

Man, some people are so dense as to be totally unreachable. Because the bible states that we are created in the image of God, and if little green men from Zork come down with three heads four eyes and who knows what else, what's that gonna do to the concept of being made in the image of our creator? Now, spin and deflect!

According to the original scenario, they could well look just like us.

You add little green men? Little green men may also be the image of God. Who are you to limit God so?

Of course, the image of God may not be physical at all, which renders the argument purely academic.

 

[miketx]

How would religions react to a direct message/encounter with aliens?
So let's just say that an alien spaceship came down and visited Earth. The event was broadcasted all over the media. The aliens were friendly and had about 24th century Technology. They offered to give us their space travel technology in exchange for all the information we know about everything. How would religions react to such an encounter? Would the pope give up?

Probably say hello and offer donuts, like everyone else. Why would it make a difference to the religious?

Man, some people are so dense as to be totally unreachable. Because the bible states that we are created in the image of God, and if little green men from Zork come down with three heads four eyes and who knows what else, what's that gonna do to the concept of being made in the image of our creator? Now, spin and deflect!

According to the original scenario, they could well look just like us.

You add little green men? Little green men may also be the image of God. Who are you to limit God so?

Of course, the image of God may not be physical at all, which renders the argument purely academic.

Yes, we are all alien looking aren't we? The arrogance of people who think everything has to be like us, and while it may be, it certainly does not have to.

 

[ding]

I believe He believes we are the aliens.


a·li·en
ˈālēən/
adjective

1. 1.
   belonging to a foreign country or nation.

What foreign country do you live in?

Lol. AMERICA

Poor you.

Blessed are the poor of spirit. We have chosen the better portion and it will not be taken away.

Mexicans already have the southwest.

Good for them. They are good people.

 

[Mudda]

What foreign country do you live in?

Lol. AMERICA

Poor you.

Blessed are the poor of spirit. We have chosen the better portion and it will not be taken away.

Mexicans already have the southwest.

Good for them. They are good people.

Ya, they did a super job with Mexico.

 

[ding]

Lol. AMERICA

Poor you.

Blessed are the poor of spirit. We have chosen the better portion and it will not be taken away.

Mexicans already have the southwest.

Good for them. They are good people.

Ya, they did a super job with Mexico.

What? You never been to Cabo?

 

[HaShev]

How would religions react to a direct message/encounter with aliens?
So let's just say that an alien spaceship came down and visited Earth. The event was broadcasted all over the media. The aliens were friendly and had about 24th century Technology. They offered to give us their space travel technology in exchange for all the information we know about everything. How would religions react to such an encounter? Would the pope give up?

Probably say hello and offer donuts, like everyone else. Why would it make a difference to the religious?

Man, some people are so dense as to be totally unreachable. Because the bible states that we are created in the image of God, and if little green men from Zork come down with three heads four eyes and who knows what else, what's that gonna do to the concept of being made in the image of our creator? Now, spin and deflect!

But they already got that wrong, because they never read it in the Hebrew or ask a Rabbi.
The word translated as "Image" in Genesis means nature type image not physical type.
They are forbidden to make a physical image but because they do they are anthropromorphizing the word "image" out of full context and thus confuse themselves and others who get these precepts from them instead of the source or keepers of that commentary.
In essence they are already stumped and contradicting at assuming any figure or form whether man or other species, because the Essence of life created them, they have a further process in creating them, thus
can't be the finite Creator.
That's why only an Essence (non tangible) makes sense in describing the power and source of life.

Sources:
Isaiah 42:8 we can't pray to any image of anything physical- Exodus 20:3-7 and Deuteronomy 5:8-10
God is not a man nor form-(Isaiah 2:22, 14:13, I Samuel 15:29, Numbers 23:19, and Hosea 11:9, Deuteronomy 4:11-12 and the 13 major principles of the Jewish faith based on the Rambam's teaching of "ain lo demus haguf ve'ayno guf" -- that Hashem has no physical form.)

The Gemarah (Baba Batra 75) Tells us YeruShalem is named after the Hebrew concept of G0D and is the place commemorating his name(description)& essence. Shalem means stability completeness & wholeness=Essence to be all we could and should be.

What makes this difficult to understand is the translations and losing context that physical words like "HE" are mistakingly used & defined in assumptions
literally, instead of keeping non anthropromorphic context whereby such words are poorly labeled to a non tangible Essence.

 

[Mudda]

Poor you.

Blessed are the poor of spirit. We have chosen the better portion and it will not be taken away.

Mexicans already have the southwest.

Good for them. They are good people.

Ya, they did a super job with Mexico.

What? You never been to Cabo?

I don't go to failed countries with bean eating sweaty midgets.

 

[Indeependent]

How would religions react to a direct message/encounter with aliens?
So let's just say that an alien spaceship came down and visited Earth. The event was broadcasted all over the media. The aliens were friendly and had about 24th century Technology. They offered to give us their space travel technology in exchange for all the information we know about everything. How would religions react to such an encounter? Would the pope give up?

Probably say hello and offer donuts, like everyone else. Why would it make a difference to the religious?

Man, some people are so dense as to be totally unreachable. Because the bible states that we are created in the image of God, and if little green men from Zork come down with three heads four eyes and who knows what else, what's that gonna do to the concept of being made in the image of our creator? Now, spin and deflect!

But they already got that wrong, because they never read it in the Hebrew or ask a Rabbi.
The word translated as "Image" in Genesis means nature type image not physical type.
They are forbidden to make a physical image but because they do they are anthropromorphizing the word "image" out of full context and thus confuse themselves and others who get these precepts from them instead of the source or keepers of that commentary.
In essence they are already stumped and contradicting at assuming any figure or form whether man or other species, because the Essence of life created them, they have a further process in creating them, thus
can't be the finite Creator.
That's why only an Essence (non tangible) makes sense in describing the power and source of life.

Sources:
Isaiah 42:8 we can't pray to any image of anything physical- Exodus 20:3-7 and Deuteronomy 5:8-10
God is not a man nor form-(Isaiah 2:22, 14:13, I Samuel 15:29, Numbers 23:19, and Hosea 11:9, Deuteronomy 4:11-12 and the 13 major principles of the Jewish faith based on the Rambam's teaching of "ain lo demus haguf ve'ayno guf" -- that Hashem has no physical form.)

The Gemarah (Baba Batra 75) Tells us YeruShalem is named after the Hebrew concept of G0D and is the place commemorating his name(description)& essence. Shalem means stability completeness & wholeness=Essence to be all we could and should be.

What makes this difficult to understand is the translations and losing context that physical words like "HE" are mistakingly used & defined in assumptions
literally, instead of keeping non anthropromorphic context whereby such words are poorly labeled to a non tangible Essence.

When God is referred to as "He", it is a term of 3rd person reverence.
Pretty much any statement where God's Kingship is mentioned will be followed by references to God in 3rd person.
That's why blessings that begin with "Blessed are YOU", and then you encounter God's Kingship, as in "Our God, KING of the universe", continue to reference God as "He" rather than "You".