Extraterrestrials

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What do creationists think of extraterrestrials?
We call them angels.
Are there any?
Billions.
Would they have been created by god too?
Yes.
What if they were told by their god that they were made in his image?
I believe they were made in His image.
What should humanity do with these creatures?
Nothing -- they are currently prohibited from making angelic appearances in this dispensation, except they do it in human form.
Just curious.
You've brought your curiosity to the right place!

Nice to meet you, and I hope you'll enjoy it here -- :wave:
 
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We call them angels.
Amen brother.

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We also call them "the sons of God" or "the Watchers."

"...and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown." -- Genesis 6:4

"... for in his days the angels of the Lord descended on the earth, those who are named the Watchers, that they should instruct the children of men, and that they should do judgment and uprightness on the earth." -- Jubilees 4:15-16

"... ye are of this world; I am not of this world." -- Jesus Christ, John 8:23

"Democritus, Epicurus, and their scholar Metrodorus affirm that there are infinite worlds in an infinite space ...." -- Plutarch, historian, 1st century

"Alexander wept when he heard from Anaxarchus that there was an infinite number of worlds; and his friends asking him if any accident had befallen him, he returns this answer: 'Do you not think it a matter worthy of lamentation that when there is such a vast multitude of them, we have not yet conquered one?'" -- Plutarch, historian, 1st century

"... I should have found very noble Patronage for the cause [of extraterrestrial life] among the ancients, Epicurus, Democritus, Lucretius, &c. Or if justice may reach the dead do them the right, as to show, that though they may be hooted at, by the Rout of the learned, as men of monstrous conceits, they were either very wise or exceedingly fortunate to light on so probable and specious an opinion...." -- Henry More, poet, Democritus Platonissans or The Infinity of Worlds, 1647

"Stored in each orb, perhaps, with some that live." -- John Milton, poet, Paradise Lost, Book VIII, 1667

"... there are more worlds, and on them more creatures of beauty to be found." -- Immanuel Kant, natural philosopher, 1764

"... there are inhabitants in other worlds." -- Immanuel Kant, natural philosopher, 1781

"... the sixteenth century, an age -- as you must have been told at school -- when it was the great fashion among poets to make the denizens and powers of higher worlds descend on earth and mix freely with mortals...." -- Fyodor Dostoyevsky, author, The Brothers Karamazov, 1880

"As the popular religion peopled the atmosphere with daemons, so Democritus supposed that in the atmosphere were beings of a similar form to men, but far surpassing them in size and duration of existence, whose influences were sometimes beneficent, and sometimes malign..." -- Eduard Zeller, philosopher, Outlines of the History of Greek Philosophy, 1881

"He [Lord Kelvin] asked me if I believed that other worlds other than our own were inhabited. I naturally disclaimed expressing an opinion to him, and I found that he does not believe any other of the sun's planets to be inhabitable by life, but thinks there may be stellar planets in such a condition." -- Dr. Watson, reverend, Autumn 1903

"Grandfather, Great Spirit, you have been always, and before you no one has been. There is no other one to pray to but you. You yourself, everything that you see, everything has been made by you. The star nations all over the universe you have finished [created]." -- Black Elk, medicine man, August 1930

"Two thousand years ago these extraterrestrials created a being to be placed on this planet to teach homo-sapiens about love and peace." -- Linda M. Howe, journalist, 1989

"I wonder if what we now call the UFO reality, and what the Bible calls angels of God, are not the same reality. If this is true, then we humans have a lot of thinking to do." -- Barry H. Downing, reverend, 1997

"I believe it is time we explored the possibility that UFOs carry the angels of God." -- Barry H. Downing, reverend, 1997

 
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We call them angels.

Billions.

Yes.

I believe they were made in His image.

Nothing -- they are currently prohibited from making angelic appearances in this dispensation, except they do it in human form.

You've brought your curiosity to the right place!

Nice to meet you, and I hope you'll enjoy it here -- :wave:

I pity the poor children growing up in communities like yours who are being fed this crap.
 
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I pity the poor children growing up in communities like yours who are being fed this crap.
Isn't it exactly what the Bible teaches? Angels and demons, angelic encounters in human guises, etc?
 
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Isn't it exactly what the Bible teaches? Angels and demons, angelic encounters in human guises, etc?

I think AV's dispensational nonsense and belief in billions of extraterrestrial angels might be taking a few liberties with bible interpretation. But as even bible literalism itself is a dogma from the dark ages that nobody who isn't slightly retarded takes seriously, I think my comment stands.
 
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I pity the poor children growing up in communities like yours who are being fed this crap.

An extraterrestrial (out of this world) would categorize an Angel or a god. They have every right to learn that things not of this world are by definition,extra-terrestrial. Needless to say, It would be a sad sight indeed, where Mr Tomatoman is teaching that things of this world are extra terrestrial
 
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I think AV's dispensational nonsense and belief in billions of extraterrestrial angels might be taking a few liberties with bible interpretation.
It takes no liberties actually. Extraterrestrial is by definition, out of this world.
But as even bible literalism itself is a dogma from the dark ages that nobody who isn't slightly retarded takes seriously,
We are in a Dark Age actually, where you are castigated, expelled and insulted on Christian forums for not believing in Darwinism or presenting the 21st Century scientific evidence against it. Bible literalism which fully accommodates and promotes the dawning of the new knowledge in the mechanism of adaptation, is actually a relief point.
I think my comment stands.
On what? Youre gloating over insults as a relevant argument?
 
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It takes no liberties actually. Extraterrestrial is by definition, out of this world.

Part of the definition. They are also regarded as natural beings, not supernatural.

But hey, this line of argument of yours is a good example of Clarke's Law.

We are in a Dark Age actually, where you are castigated, expelled and insulted on Christian forums for not believing in Darwinism or presenting the 21st Century scientific evidence against it.

And the same applies if you do believe in it.
 
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AV1611VET said:
Hang the Arab phone up please, and read the OP again.

OP mentioned extraterrestrials, which simply means beings from outside the Earth. Normally this is used to describe aliens. If we're getting technical than angels are extraterrestrials, since they don't come from Earth. This doesn't mean that aliens are angels though.

Arab phone? :confused:
 
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Hang the Arab phone up please, and read the OP again.
In the UK, 'alien' and 'extraterrestrial' refer unambiguously to 'life that has developed elsewhere in the universe, usually biological, usual intelligent'. It is only in the US that I've heard 'alien' be a synonym for 'foreign', though I'd guess that that's its original meaning.

In any case, there's no Arab phone going on (which we call a Chinese whisper; I had to look up 'Arab phone').
 
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OP mentioned extraterrestrials, which simply means beings from outside the Earth. Normally this is used to describe aliens. If we're getting technical than angels are extraterrestrials, since they don't come from Earth. This doesn't mean that aliens are angels though.

Arab phone? :confused:
Google informs me that 'Arab phone' is another term for Chinese whispers, and 'alien' is used in the US to refer to foreigners ('illegal aliens' refers to illegal immigrants from Mexico, say, rather than Wolf 359), so maybe he's cautioning against going from 'extraterrestrial = angels' to 'extraterrestrial = space aliens' to 'space aliens = aliens' to 'aliens = terrestrial foreigners'.
 
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In the UK, 'alien' and 'extraterrestrial' refer unambiguously to 'life that has developed elsewhere in the universe, usually biological, usual intelligent'. It is only in the US that I've heard 'alien' be a synonym for 'foreign', though I'd guess that that's its original meaning.

In any case, there's no Arab phone going on (which we call a Chinese whisper; I had to look up 'Arab phone').
Do you guys want to yak, or do you want to address my post, as I wrote it?

You're only confusing yourselves by changing the wording of what I said.

I can't get you guys around your own mental blocks.
 
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