Re: [Nolug] E-T and evangelism

Not to get religious on everyone but there are questions I have answers for.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ron Johnson" <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>
To: "NOLUG ML" <nolug@joeykelly.net>
Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 12:10 PM
Subject: [Nolug] E-T and evangelism

> On Thu, 2002-12-19 at 10:28, Joey Kelly wrote:
> > On Thu, 2002-12-19 at 10:22, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > >
> > > Well, The White Man goes to remote, underdeveloped to spread the
Gospel
> > > of Christ. Maybe ET evangelists would come here to spread *their*
> > > religion to "the savages on Sol 3".
> >
> > This is my main argument against ETs. If the bible is true, then God's
> > attention is focused here, not Out There Somewhere. Plus there's the sin
> > question: Christ died once, as a human. He didn't die for the little
> > green men. Conjecturing that the little green men didn't have a fall on
> > their planet stretches things a litle thin, in my opinion.
>
> As I said, it would be *their* religion they would be spreading, not
> ours.
>
> You made the crucial qualifier: "If the bible is true". What if it
> isn't? (Note that as an atheist, this is just an intellectual excersise
> for me...)

It is, and has been proven mostly by those trying to disprove it. Look up
the research on radio-halo's around the early 1970's.

> Also, "If the bible is true, then God's attention is focused here".
> Why is that so? If He is omniscient, omnipresent & omnipotent, why
> couldn't He be handling multiple worlds at the same time?

We are the only planet that fell into sin. SETI will fail because there are
no radio dishes out there to respond to us. The other planets are still
following God's plan that He had for us in the garden. They obeyed where we
failed. Lucifer fell once and came here. While we were not the first
planet he stopped at (after all there are so many), we were the only one
that failed the trial of temptation. Jesus died to correct what he
(Lucifer) started.

> Furthermore, "Christ died once, as a human". Following the Bible,
> true, and far as it goes. Other species may not have fallen from
> grace in *their* versions of the Garden of Eden, and for other species
> that also Fell, Christ would have sacrificed Himself for them, in what
> ever way that each of those sets of civilisations evolved...
> Since Christ is part of the Triune God, and is also thus omniscient,
> omnipresent & omnipotent, He could be handling multiple worlds at the
> same time just like His Father.

But he has no need. Christ died once and only once. We are quarantined due
to sin. We are the only solar system in the universe that has fallen.
There will be no contact with aliens and there are no little green men. The
world is less than 7000 years old (again, go look up the research on radio
halo's, and helium crystals - I can provide research dates for those
insterested) and probation ends soon. God spoke everything into existence
except one thing. Us. We are the only thing valuable enough to have been
created with His own hands.

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~!

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