Soul for Aliens?

AlphaOmega · Apr 23, 2008

johnco said:
hi,

there are no aliens we are quite alone in the universe.
there is God, angels, demons, and us.

cpayne · Apr 24, 2008

cecilia97 said:
Can’t believe I’m responding to a post in the Philosophy forum.

We welcome you, Earth Creature.

ChristIsTheWay · Apr 24, 2008

johnco said:
imagine, if the Word had to redeem other planets, how many blessed mothers would we need? how many queens of heaven?

Actually, that might not be an issue at all. If there are alien beings out there and they possess an immortal soul, there is no reason to conclude that they need redemption. Why? Because we do not know if they experienced a fall like we did. It is quite possible that when tempted, they turned away from sin and are still in an Eden-like state.

Second, I don’t see why Christ’s once for all sacrifice on Earth wouldn’t cover a fallen alien race. If they did fall from grace, presumably the wages of their sin would be death. Since Jesus Christ paid that price, it seems unlikely He would have to go to each fallen world, incarnate, and die, over and over again, when He has already paid the price once before .

Finally, since the universe is so large, even if life were exceedingly rare, it seems unlikely (to me, anyways) that we would be the only life around.

johnco · Apr 24, 2008

hi,

Christ’s redemption was for the human race on earth, because we , unlike an alien, are decendents of adam and eve. we needed redeemed from adam’s sin.

ChristIsTheWay · Apr 24, 2008

johnco said:
hi,

Christ’s redemption was for the human race on earth, because we , unlike an alien, are decendents of adam and eve. we needed redeemed from adam’s sin.

Of course. But there is nothing that I know of that would prevent Christ’s redemption from applying to all fallen races, whether descendants of Adam and Eve or not.

Malperdy · Apr 25, 2008

mangy_dog said:
The contactees are seeing real, nuts and bolts “transports”. The message is deception, aimed at a pseudo-benign awareness of “other-worldly” ways apart and independent from the truth of Jesus Christ and His salvific plan.

What are these “transports” you write about?

And who, or what, is sending messages of deception?

Tammy111 · May 6, 2008

Sir_Knight said:
We are made in the image and likeness of God. Would it be an accurate assumption that if aliens do not appear human, then they do not have a soul and that if they did appear human, then they did have a soul?

If one has to appear human to have a soul, what do we do with severly malformed infants? I think that if there are non-terran sapient life-forms then their relationship to God as Creator would be similar to ours. However, we do not know their story. C.S. Lewis explores these ideas in his space trilogy, Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, and That Hideous Strength.

mangy_dog · May 6, 2008

Tammy111 said:
If one has to appear human to have a soul, what do we do with severly malformed infants? I think that if there are non-terran sapient life-forms then their relationship to God as Creator would be similar to ours. However, we do not know their story. C.S. Lewis explores these ideas in his space trilogy, Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, and That Hideous Strength.

Severly mal-formed infants are still human infants - product of procreation.

“if” is a very big and muddled “if”…“non-terran; sapient life-forms” exist! Except, they are not from some utopian, idyllic civilization in the constellation of Malnax - out there somewhere.

This is the planet and the human race that God shed all His graces on.

Pax Domini sit semper vobiscum.

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