Re: [Nolug] E-T and evangelism

I now invoke the specter of Hitler and the Nazi's and alien Nazi's etc so that
this thread may end and we can resume our regularly scheduled *nix
discussion.

;)

On Thursday 19 December 2002 06:19 pm, Dave Prentice wrote:
> Ron,
> Hope you'll be there tonight so we can have a good Bible
> discussion.
> Dave Prentice
> prentice@instruction.com
> http://www.originsresource.org
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>
> To: NOLUG ML <nolug@joeykelly.net>
> Date: Thursday, December 19, 2002 12:12 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...)
>
> 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?
>
> 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.

-- 
Scott Harney <scotth@scottharney.com>
The only thing I need to know about NT is "fdisk"
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