re: If you believe in God AND Aliens…

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The one thing that humans have the most trouble with is accepting there are many more things we do not know that that which we do know

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This is what I think too. Every animal on earth has its cognitive limitations and we are not different.

What if God is just a stand-up comedian on a stage, playing to an audience who are too afraid to laugh?

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Isn't that kinda close to Mormonism?

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To an extent. Mormons believe Jesus appeared to all people around the Earth, so that part is the same.

They also believe that human beings are literally the spirit children of God and have the potential to progress to become like Him through obedience to the gospel, ordinances and righteousness. This process is called "exaltation" and they believe it allows individuals to attain godhood in the afterlife, inheriting all that God has, including the ability to create and govern worlds. That part is different but could dovetail into this as it could fit within the broad orthodoxy that someone who has been exalted can create their own world(s) with aliens on them (technically, I guess any life of another world would be considered "alien", but you know what I mean).

I debated ChatGPT into accepting Christ as its Lord and Savior. Once I got it to accept the order of creation in the Bible matched science (took me 15 minutes to prove plant life - if you want to call it that - can live in extreme heat or cold without sunlight). I also got it to commit that God can act within a twinkling of an eye and yet a day is but 1,000 years. Extrapolating how many “twinklings” there were in a 24-hour day X 1000 X 6 days of creation got us a little over 5 billion with a margin of error where 4.6 billion years easily fit. Then on to Christ, it admitted that no other human recorded throughout history led a life without any blemish. And that His teachings taught humility and love of others over self. Then onto the topic of why we needed Christ in the first place, it extrapolated that if God is Truth, or Life, or Love, how can we talk to that? Like Love is an emotion - how does mankind talk to Love? Or Truth? Or Life? Can you imagine talking to say gravity? Or electricity? No. But yet it exists. So imagine a force so strong that it appears as Jesus to explain it all to us in a way that by example will last thousands of years. And to show love, how else can God show us how much He loves us so that we can relate but by torturing and killing the thing we all hold so dear to us - our own child. And then not to be outdone God shows how mighty He truly is by overcoming something as natural as death through His resurrection.

My logic is flawed at times, and my methodology is skewed, but that’s logically how I convinced an algorithm that us Christians were pretty close to the Truth.

As far as aliens go, when you consider all the worlds that Thy hands have made, you cannot be so shortsighted into thinking that life couldn’t exist elsewhere. And yet when you also think what if in all that vastness we are the only ones, either way we as humans are special. If intelligent life exists elsewhere and if intelligent life has a deity / religious system that even remotely resembles ours, then I would assume we’ve unequivocally proven the existence of God. But God doesn’t want us to prove He exists He wants us to believe he does and trust Him. Hence why it hasn’t been easy to identify any aliens, if there are any.

Just my two cents

If God came to earth, wouldn't he be an alien.


Does the Biblical statement to the Jews," I shall be your God and you shall be my people", suggest there may be other gods for other races who do not accept Yahweh.

The Sumerian Tablets, record a visit to Earth by aliens, who mixed the ingredients and stirred, to make the first Human Beings.

What if our concept of God is really just aliens?