Re: [Nolug] E-T and evangelism

Sig seen on slashdot this morning:

God does exist!
There is a plan!
And the spaceship is coming!

--Joey

On Wed, 2002-12-18 at 19:22, Scott Harney wrote:
> 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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