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L
Ooh, I want to be the first one to get a good seat for this thread. I brought popcorn, and I'm ready. Get your Bibles out everybody and get your quotes ready. Who will be the first to claim that aliens are fallen angels? Who will it be? Oh man I wish I could take bets on it. This is gonna be good.
THUNDERDOME!
THUNDERDOME!
U
Nothing i've read discusses aliens. I won't dismiss the idea, but i find it highly unlikely.
What i do dismiss is that they can travel to earth. IF aliens do exist, i don't believe God would have us meet them. That would be a major experience in the life of humanity and likely referred to in the bible.
But more likely they don't exist. We are God's special creation.
What i do dismiss is that they can travel to earth. IF aliens do exist, i don't believe God would have us meet them. That would be a major experience in the life of humanity and likely referred to in the bible.
But more likely they don't exist. We are God's special creation.
L
Yes, as much as I don't agree with the jokes made about this, I do believe that there will be a great lie perpetrated on the earth by the devil to explain what happened to all those people who disappeared when the rapture of the church (the bride of Christ) leaves to meet the Lord in the air.
Amplified Bible version;
1Thessalonians 4:13-18 Now also we would not have you ignorant, brethren, about those who fall asleep in death, that you may not grieve for them as the rest do who have no hope beyond the grave.
For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will also bring with Him through Jesus those who have fallen asleep in death.
For this we declare to you by the Lord's own word, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord shall in no way preceded into His presence or have any advantage at all over those who have previously fallen asleep in Him in death.
For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a loud cry of summons, with the shout of the archangel, and with the blast of the trumpet of God. And those who have departed this life in Christ will rise first.
Then we, the living ones who remain on the earth, shall simultaneously be caught up along with the resurrected dead in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air; and so always through the eternity of the eternities we shall be with the Lord!
Therefore comfort and encourage one another with these words.
Bible commentary below..
Paul was giving instruction to those who had experienced the death of a believing loved one. He stated clearly that the purpose of this instruction was to keep them from sorrowing like unbelievers who have no hope.One of the most painful things about experiencing the death of a loved one is the thought of never seeing that person again. It all seems so final;
Paul revealed that all the dead in Christ shall rise first, and then we who remain will be reunited with them for eternity (1 Thessalonians 4:16-17). This is comforting (see note 16 at 1 Thessalonians 4:18). Understanding this makes death for the Christian nothing more than a long separation.
For the person who is not a believer, this is not so. It is true that Christian and non-Christian alike will be resurrected, but the non-Christian will be banished from God and everything that causes pleasure, for all eternity. It is not clear from this side of eternity exactly what this torment will be, but isolation will likely be a part of it.
Note 3 at 1 Thessalonians 4:13 :
Paul was not saying that it is wrong for us Christians to have sorrow over people we love who have died. He was saying we shouldn’t sorrow “even as others which have no hope” (unbelievers). It is normal to miss the people we love, but as Christians,
our hope of being reunited with those people in the resurrection greatly diminishes the pain and actually gives comfort.
As surely as Jesus died and rose again, those who die in Christ will return with Him when He comes again. That’s assurance!
Note 5 at 1 Thessalonians 4:14 :
The word “sleep” refers to the Christians who have died (see note 9 at John 11:12 and note 10 at John 11:14). Paul said that all the true believers in Christ who have already died will return with Jesus when He comes.
Amplified Bible version;
1Thessalonians 4:13-18 Now also we would not have you ignorant, brethren, about those who fall asleep in death, that you may not grieve for them as the rest do who have no hope beyond the grave.
For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will also bring with Him through Jesus those who have fallen asleep in death.
For this we declare to you by the Lord's own word, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord shall in no way preceded into His presence or have any advantage at all over those who have previously fallen asleep in Him in death.
For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a loud cry of summons, with the shout of the archangel, and with the blast of the trumpet of God. And those who have departed this life in Christ will rise first.
Then we, the living ones who remain on the earth, shall simultaneously be caught up along with the resurrected dead in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air; and so always through the eternity of the eternities we shall be with the Lord!
Therefore comfort and encourage one another with these words.
Bible commentary below..
Paul was giving instruction to those who had experienced the death of a believing loved one. He stated clearly that the purpose of this instruction was to keep them from sorrowing like unbelievers who have no hope.One of the most painful things about experiencing the death of a loved one is the thought of never seeing that person again. It all seems so final;
Paul revealed that all the dead in Christ shall rise first, and then we who remain will be reunited with them for eternity (1 Thessalonians 4:16-17). This is comforting (see note 16 at 1 Thessalonians 4:18). Understanding this makes death for the Christian nothing more than a long separation.
For the person who is not a believer, this is not so. It is true that Christian and non-Christian alike will be resurrected, but the non-Christian will be banished from God and everything that causes pleasure, for all eternity. It is not clear from this side of eternity exactly what this torment will be, but isolation will likely be a part of it.
Note 3 at 1 Thessalonians 4:13 :
Paul was not saying that it is wrong for us Christians to have sorrow over people we love who have died. He was saying we shouldn’t sorrow “even as others which have no hope” (unbelievers). It is normal to miss the people we love, but as Christians,
our hope of being reunited with those people in the resurrection greatly diminishes the pain and actually gives comfort.
As surely as Jesus died and rose again, those who die in Christ will return with Him when He comes again. That’s assurance!
Note 5 at 1 Thessalonians 4:14 :
The word “sleep” refers to the Christians who have died (see note 9 at John 11:12 and note 10 at John 11:14). Paul said that all the true believers in Christ who have already died will return with Jesus when He comes.
M
We are all aliens - sojourners looking for a better eternal life instead of this
temporary fallen life.
From that perspective we are the aliens!
But I don't believe in aliens on other planets.
The stars, planets etc were created by God for
our benefit, not for the benefit of little green men.
Genesis 1:14 NLT
[14] Then God said, "Let lights appear in the sky to separate
the day from the night. Let them be signs to mark the
seasons, days, and years.
temporary fallen life.
From that perspective we are the aliens!
But I don't believe in aliens on other planets.
The stars, planets etc were created by God for
our benefit, not for the benefit of little green men.
Genesis 1:14 NLT
[14] Then God said, "Let lights appear in the sky to separate
the day from the night. Let them be signs to mark the
seasons, days, and years.
C
It mentioned about celestial beings, beings of light. In the old testament that it says that Moses face had light up like the sun as how Jesus whole body had lighted up as well. And scientist had discovered that our bodies emits a light; but there's a spiritual realm it is within our realm, that we cannot see it unless we concentrate very hard. But who know about how things really work. Some of these sightings can be from this world that people has created a hoax, and or from another time or dimension. But then the devil can manipulate the mind or the materials; but some of these sightings that might seem as an alien from another world, but from a biblical point of view, they could be angel of light or darkness.
Does it matter?
It only matters to evolutionists who believe life evolved from random interactions to create life.
If you want a dose of reality, look at the universe. It is so hostile whole galaxies could not support life because the amount of radiation would destroy it in an instant. The distance between stars is vast, and between galaxies so big unless you can jump between it would be useless.
Now the simplest form of life here has 250,000 base pairs which it is impossible to create randomly, impossible.
Scientists want life out there because the option that life came from earth alone is becoming impossible to believe it evolved, so either they accept God exists, which they hate to the core of their being, or it must have come from space.
If you want to here theoretical physicists they are so lost, the only answer other than God is parallel universes which are forming all the time.
Occams razor
Among competing hypotheses, the one with the fewest assumptions should be selected.
Again the problem is when seeking the truth it points to God. In the end we know this rebellion will see the man of perdition or lawlessness rise, the scene is just being set. There is a reason why the Lord hides his presence, because people need a chance to choose when things are neutral, because once open the rebellion is complete.
It only matters to evolutionists who believe life evolved from random interactions to create life.
If you want a dose of reality, look at the universe. It is so hostile whole galaxies could not support life because the amount of radiation would destroy it in an instant. The distance between stars is vast, and between galaxies so big unless you can jump between it would be useless.
Now the simplest form of life here has 250,000 base pairs which it is impossible to create randomly, impossible.
Scientists want life out there because the option that life came from earth alone is becoming impossible to believe it evolved, so either they accept God exists, which they hate to the core of their being, or it must have come from space.
If you want to here theoretical physicists they are so lost, the only answer other than God is parallel universes which are forming all the time.
Occams razor
Among competing hypotheses, the one with the fewest assumptions should be selected.
Again the problem is when seeking the truth it points to God. In the end we know this rebellion will see the man of perdition or lawlessness rise, the scene is just being set. There is a reason why the Lord hides his presence, because people need a chance to choose when things are neutral, because once open the rebellion is complete.
J
Other than if you want to call spirit beings aliens, there's zero indication in scripture of aliens in the science fiction sense. And, if so, they would have to be very long lived, since it would take about 18,000 years to get to the nearest star, in practically conceivable spaceship speed terms. (It would take something around 150,000 years for the likes of the space shuttle, a lot of botox later, you ladies!) The Bible account of creation also indicates, anyway, the Lord created the heavens and earth, then the living creatures, Adam and Eve, the heavens of adornment nature surrounding His earth creation.
If there were flesh or flesh-like, mortal beings out there of mass, we can be certain we'd never meet them. So, if they were out there, you'd have to depend on getting some sort of signal, and this provided, in the neighborhood of the nearest star, they used signal transmitters on the order of a hundred million watts or more. That being the case, you may get a television signal around four years later from the nearest star, which would be three years after a truly good TV show is cancelled, re: Journeyman, the best show, in years, that only went 13 episodes. Of course, banking on there being life around the nearest star, out of countless others, is probably about as statistically probable as getting hit by lightening from a blue sky. Other than all that, Leonard Nimoy died.
If there were flesh or flesh-like, mortal beings out there of mass, we can be certain we'd never meet them. So, if they were out there, you'd have to depend on getting some sort of signal, and this provided, in the neighborhood of the nearest star, they used signal transmitters on the order of a hundred million watts or more. That being the case, you may get a television signal around four years later from the nearest star, which would be three years after a truly good TV show is cancelled, re: Journeyman, the best show, in years, that only went 13 episodes. Of course, banking on there being life around the nearest star, out of countless others, is probably about as statistically probable as getting hit by lightening from a blue sky. Other than all that, Leonard Nimoy died.
