Extraterrestrials in Catholic Christianity

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Chapter 5 of the prophet Zacharias has some unusual flying objects that some might interpret as UFO’s.

“And the Angel went forth that spoke in me, and he said to me: Lift up thy eyes, and see what this is, that goeth forth. And I said: What is It? And he said: This is a vessel going forth. And he said: This is their eye in all the earth.” Zacharias 5: 5-6

Somebody up there is watching, spirit or alien?
 
You sound like an unbeliever. To say the Creator (Son of the Blessed Trinity) is a poor loser of life is really not cool. Here is the human form of the supreme being that created everything and you, with your singularity of life calls Him a loser. I pray you will find it in your heart of hearts to ask our Creator for forgiveness.
 
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Zacharias 5: 5-6

You seem to be taking verses out of context. This part of Zacharias is speaking about visions. This is from the sixth vision he has. If you continue on to more of the writing it says… “5 Then the angel who spoke with me came forward and said to me, “Raise your eyes and look. What is this that comes forth?”6 I said, “What is it?” And he answered, “This is the basket[] that is coming.” And he said, “This is their guilt in all the land.” 7Then a leaden cover was lifted, and there was a woman sitting inside the basket.[] 8 He said, “This is Wickedness,” and he thrust her inside the basket, pushing the leaden weight into the opening.”
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Is there a scripture basis for possible belief in extraterrestrials in Roman catholic belief?
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It depends on what you mean by extraterrestrials.
“There are more things in heaven and Earth, Horatio, / Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.” -Hamlet
 
Trinity is not a biological comprehension but is spiritual. I believe Jesus never preached against monotheism and indeed Roman catholic teaching is respecting trinity in one unity. What is lost is the lose of animal life namely human form. This is not against the divinity of the spirit of Jesus who is a spirit directly from God. Loser of worldy life is the winner of Heavenly life. Am i wrong my brother?
 
Extra-terrestrials, as in little green men from other planets flying around the galaxy in spaceships? I don’t thing the Bible or any Catholic teaching says anything at all on the subject.

I believe there are other intelligent life forms out there simply because the universe is so vast and there are so many other galaxies and planets, so that if we exist there’s a pretty good chance others exist as well.

If it were done well, a futuristic science fiction novel or movie about Catholic missionaries traveling to other planets to convert aliens would be pretty entertaining. Maybe we can start a petition to have the next Star Trek movie include a couple bishops who go out to preach to the Klingons.
 
Grizzly1 said:
I believe there are other intelligent life forms out there simply because the universe is so vast and there are so many other galaxies and planets, so that if we exist there’s a pretty good chance others exist as well.
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The potential hitch connects with the fact that Man still has no solid idea whatsover
of how Life Itself actually emerged from Non-Life - on perfect Earth …

The probabilities appear to be so incredibly small
that some Abiogenesis investigators argue for a theory of Infinite Universes. .
as an attempt to overcome the exceedingly high improbability.
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EndTimes said:
The probabilities appear to be so incredibly small
that some Abiogenesis investigators argue for a theory of Infinite Universes. .
as an attempt to overcome the exceedingly high improbability.
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Multi universe theory is meant to explain a property of physics not to overcome the Fermi Paradox.
 
Grizzly1 said:
I believe there are other intelligent life forms out there simply because the universe is so vast and there are so many other galaxies and planets, so that if we exist there’s a pretty good chance others exist as well.
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This argument is very common, yet for the life of me, it has never been convincing at all. For several reasons.

No matter how many monkeys are at a keyboard, none of them will ever randomly write a coherent book. The argument for vastness is dependent on statistics, but that has to assume a random distribution of possible outcomes. Even disregarding any theological thought, do we know this is what we are dealing with.

From a theological point if view, there is no reason why God could have or could not have created life elsewhere. The size of the universe is insignificant to God. Saying that He would have not created a large universe for just us begs the question: is our understanding of God that limited?

Also, from a theological standpoint, God the Son has two nature’s, only two. Now other intelligent life might not have sinned, but that just brings us back to the large universe problem and we would say, why just us? Others might have sinned and be saved by another means, but we are back to the large universe problem of why we are so special.

Genesis certainly implies mankind is the epitome of God’s material creation.

I could go on. I am not saying there are no other rational beings out there, but we have zero evidence of it. So we create a statistical argument that is weak. And if we are Catholic, we ignore revealed evidence that suggests otherwise.
 
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It makes sense that it is an “innovation”, as prior to the 20th century our knowledge of the vastness and extent of the wider universe was very limited. Hundreds of billions of stars in this galaxy alone…hundreds of billions of galaxies, perhaps trillions… the human mind can’t even begin to comprehend such vastness.

I don’t understand why Revelation would have to touch on this topic at all. There is much in the universe that Revelation does not touch on. God doesn’t owe us all the answers, nor has the Church ever claimed to have “all” the answers.
 
tafan2 said:
Very true. We are free to believe either way. The paucity of evidence makes it really difficult for me. It’s almost like believing in unicorns or Bigfoot.
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Let’s imagine that there was a vast forest with millions and millions of trees that extended across an entire continent. You have thus far examined one square foot of this forest, and studied precisely one tree. You then leave the forest and proclaim “I found no evidence that there are any squirrels in this forest at all! The lack of evidence is quite remarkable.”

…that’s basically what you’re saying. The vastness of the universe is beyond anything the human mind can even begin to comprehend…no analogy does it justice. Our knowledge of the universe and what it contains is extremely limited at this time.
 
I see nothing in Catholic Christianity that would either suggest or deny the existence of extraterrestrials. It is an empirical question, not necessarily a theological one. Similarly, I do not see anything in Scripture one way or the other. The fact that aliens are not mentioned in Scripture means nothing. Germs aren’t mentioned in scripture. Or kangaroos, for that matter. The authors of Scripture did not mention lots of things for the simple reason that they were unaware of them.
 
Being and comprehension of being are different. Phenenemonological physics and mathematical physica are different. No matter extraterrestrials exists those small greys, reptilians, Arcturians, Siriusians, Pleiadnas, Alpha Centaurians or Annunaki or any alien literature beings, the question is are they good or evil? Do they serve goodness and beauty? What is good amd beautiful? Don’t ask me I am confused. I just believe God and his Word help us.
 
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Multi universe theory is meant to explain a property of physics not to overcome the Fermi Paradox.
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Infinite universe theory is employed within Abiogenisis theories
as a means to overcome the maths of mutation statistics…
showing how the probabilities of materialistic evolution of Life from Non-Life
which based upon pure CHANCE as applied to One Universe
  • approaches ZERO…
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