If alien life is real, did Jesus die on their planet also?

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It’s not an issue of what’s possible. I do not doubt it would have been possible for multiple incarnations. I just say we know that’s not what God did. God the Son has two nature’s. Mary is the Mother if Gid, not a Mother of God. The Church is the mystical body if Christ, not a mystical body if Christ.
 
I don’t think so. The first book describes aliens and civilizations that did not fall. Perelandra describes the test of a new rational race.
 
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Angels and demons are a form of aliens from beyond planet earth. Jesus didn’t save the sinful demons. They will be separated from God forever.
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Demons are rebellious Angels, God created them as He created us. You have a Guardian Angel given you by God.
Angels are not alien to Gods creation
 
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I guess it depends on if you view the church’s statement that Jesus has only two natures ad implicit or explicit. The statement ‘Jesus has two natures’ can either be viewed as explicitly stating he has two and only two, or that he has two, but it’s possible to have more, we just have no reason to believe otherwise.

My problem is, if we go with your line of thinking, that means that if there are other rational aliens, then either a) they can’t have fallen, or b) if they did fall, redemption is impossible for them or c) if redemption is possible, it does not require the intervention of the Son. To me this either denies free will (the aliens can’t choose to fall) or denies Gods love (that he’d refuse to save a fallen race that could be saved). Or it implies that it’s possible to be saved without Gods intervention. All three seem unacceptable to me.
 
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They both deal with the unfallen , but Perelandra is more akin to the Adam and Eve story in an unfallen world. However, I’d just read them all!
 
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So, you’re thinking Moses actually wrote the entire book of Genesis? And that, if he had, God would have revealed everything about the universe to him?
 
Why would anyone think alien life had immortal souls!? It would be the equivalent of an animal (albeit a potentially advanced animal) that was from another planet.
 
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My problem is, if we go with your line of thinking, that means that if there are other rational aliens, then either a) they can’t have fallen, or b) if they did fall, redemption is impossible for them or c) if redemption is possible, it does not require the intervention of the Son.
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Or, d) God has not revealed to us His plan for them
 
Very true. I suppose it could be possible for God to save them in a way that doesn’t involve an incarnation
 
I do not understand your thought reasoning for option c at all. Nothing I said precludes intervention by the Son. It’s a matter of how He would intervene. Why would God be limited to one means, a means no one could ever have imagined.
 
What if there are multiple universes with multiple mr chatsworths in them. And each one needs saving and the only difference is that instead of Coca Cola these universes only have Pepsi. That’s about as worthwhile to discuss as aliens and Jesus dying for them on their planets.
 
Yes I know, I was only pointing out that JulianN was correct on his storyline: ie what life would have been like.
 
JulianN said:
So, you’re thinking Moses actually wrote the entire book of Genesis?
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Yes - that is the traditional belief even down to Protestant KJV days. The book of Genesis in their bible starts out, “The First Book of Moses, called Genesis”.
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And that, if he had, God would have revealed everything about the universe to him?
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Not everything, but probably this.
 
Yeah …that’s a tradition that is not actually taken seriously in biblical scholarship. And certainly not incumbent on Catholics to accept literally.
 
JulianN said:
Yeah …that’s a tradition that is not actually taken seriously in biblical scholarship.
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“Biblical Scholars” (The Jesus Seminar, Reza Aslan, etc. etc. etc.) have bogus ideas about the faith and Jesus to begin with, so I don’t care very much for their opinions.
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Actually, why this? It would have had virtually nothing to do with Earth and our salvation.
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Nothing to do with Earth? I’d disagree - the presence or absence of superior aliens would be important. But if you think it’s not important, I respect that too.
 
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ReaderT said:
“Biblical Scholars” (The Jesus Seminar, Reza Aslan, etc. etc. etc.) have bogus ideas about the faith and Jesus to begin with, so I don’t care very much for their opinions
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How about the USCCB?
 
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