Aliens more plausible than Divine Revelation? (Did Aliens start religion?)

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I need to stop checking back XD
IWantGod said:
This is to say i am open minded about the possibility. Lets just say that we can still have a theological discussion about the possibility of aliens without looking like lunatics…
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To be clear, I agree. I do not believe in aliens, but I do not discount the possibility. My problem and my harshness is directed at people who try to use the potential as evidence of actuality. Even if I were to assume aliens were real, I would still take issue with people who put forward this sort of argument because, even if aliens are real, there’s no reason to assume, and no evidence to support the notion, that they created a religion.
 
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False prohets like Renard who wrote “The disappearance of the Universe”, and Schucmann and Thetford who wrote “A course in miracles” maintained that aliens visited them (so-called ascended beings) and told them all the religions got it wrong and God did not create the Universe but others/outsiders (aliis in Latin; we say aliens). So, if one does not believe in the Biblical account of Creation by God, the door is open for all these far fetched beliefs who hear other voices than the Holy Spirit and try to give them credence. Ron Hubbard and the sick mess he left behind called Dyanetics still maintains this. He spent the last days of his life screaming at “evil Thetans” that only he coudl see.
 
The truths contained in religion (like the truths in wisdom or ethics) seem to be transcendent. These truths span cultures and times and ethnicities and places. They are not localized and particular but rather universal and transcendent.

The statement, “The result would just be we have no reason to consider Christian revelation to be true,” would not seem to follow, even if aliens were the source. There might be particular aspects of the Christian religion that would be false. But the transcendental truths stand on their own—humans have intrinsic dignity, there is something amiss about this present world that needs correction, the desire of the Creator is to draw all men to himself in an afterlife…these and many others besides still obtain, no matter the source of the religion.

Also, there is something bizarrely akin to an “argument from silence” about your suggestion here. There aren’t testimonies of religions that claim aliens as their source. You’re arguing from a logical possibility, with no testimonial evidence, which is an argument from what isn’t there (from silence), right?

Yes? No? Maybe?
 
SteelArchangel said:
The way I was told to understand this is that…aliens would possess a technology the likes of which we have never seen. With it, they would be able to replicate just how the Earth/human beings were created. Thus proving that they created everything and not God.
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But who created those aliens, was it another bunch of aliens? Do we have an infinite regress of aliens and the first aliens who had no beginning, did they create the universe?

The job description for aliens; would have to match the job description for God, the creator of all that is seen and unseen.
 
I am unsure where the said aliens originated from. The above I wrote was how it was explained to me. The only other detail I remember is that the aliens had “seeds” of some sort that they planted on the different coastlines and land masses that “evolved” into the world today.
 
SteelArchangel said:
The only other detail I remember is that the aliens had “seeds” of some sort that they planted on the different coastlines and land masses that “evolved” into the world today.
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Yeah, but nobody liked Prometheus. Lol
 
Maybe aliens DID start a religion. That, does not, however, necessitate that that religion is true.
 
Why would aliens want to try to instigate the phenomenon called religion among humans? For the lols? For the ego boost of being considered gods? Why are they not still interacting with us? Did they have their fun and get bored? They could have at least strip-mined the Earth of it’s resources while they are at it. Unless they were somehow intelligent enough to master interstellar travel but did not think to do that.
 
SteelArchangel said:
Have no idea what that reference means.
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In the movie Prometheus, an alien drinks a black tar like liquid that dissolves his body which promptly falls into the ocean. Over time this jump-starts life on earth eventually leading to the emergence of intelligent life (human being’s).

An interesting concept which is poorly executed in my opinion. Most people don’t like the movie.
 
redbetta said:
Why would aliens want to try to instigate the phenomenon called religion among humans? For the lols? For the ego boost of being considered gods? Why are they not still interacting with us? Did they have their fun and get bored? They could have at least strip-mined the Earth of it’s resources while they are at it. Unless they were somehow intelligent enough to master interstellar travel but did not think to do that.
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While most of what you say is common-sense, it’s not far fetched to imagine alien-beings visiting other planets to study other life. It could even be the case that malevolent beings would attempt to alter the course of human history for their own pathetic nihilistic agenda if not for pure entertainment.

But even if that were true, it still wouldn’t mean that Jesus Christ is not our lord or that God doesn’t exist.
 
IWantGod said:
In the movie Prometheus, an alien drinks a black tar like liquid that dissolves his body which promptly falls into the ocean. Over time this jump-starts life on earth eventually leading to the emergence of intelligent life ( human being’s ).
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I remember that movie. I never understood what that intro was about. Science still has no clue DNA came into being, or how life came into being.
 
I think you have been watching too much TV or listening to too much clear channel.
 
Saw ET in the theatre back in then as well and do have a penchant for Reese’s Pieces.
 
Never seen any of the newer Alien films. Seen the first three or four, but Aliens is tough to beat for me. Love Cameron films.
 
I saw this one last summer The Predator. It wasn’t that great.

I read they may do a direct sequel to Aliens though. I’m not a big sci-fi person, in fact, I hate all things Star Wars.
 
That’s not true, I rather enjoyed it. It was no Alien, but it was still fun. 😛
 
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