My beliefs. God created man in his likeness, that is God gave man a body that looked like his body, and woman recieved the body his wife had.
(I did not say that, btw)
I think when God created man in his likeness, it was more a mental figure of speech, as apposed to a physical similarity. I've found most of the bible, is in fact, a huge figure of speech....
my personal beleifs say God is just an idea, one I like to call The Collective Human Conscious. Generally, we all think the same. We all have the same basic rutines we all make. Sure, the details are different, but we all enter our homes the same way, toss the keys in the same place, leave the wallet somewhere, etc.
Simialarly, we all deal with the same problems, just at different times. Therefor, I feel its safe to say no matter who you are or what you do, we're all equil as long as you're indeed living life, and not going through the motions. By that, I mean learing from lessons, and living the human experience. Not so much going places and seeing things. Aren't we really just seeing the same things?
I think there's a universal truth as far as religions go. They're all pretty much the same. Sure, some are harsher than others, but in essence.....
So basiclly God (all knowledge, or in a word, everything) creates man with the same basic mental processes, and puts us in this place where nothing is really right. Sure, we all know whats good and bad, but the thing is being purely good and purely bad is not the right way.
therefor, Balance is nessisary. Balance is both good and evil, right and wrong. After all, did God basiclly make both Jesus and the Devil.
look at the Yin-Yang. You have black and white equil, with a little of each in the other. There's those of us who are Purley good. There's those of us who are Purley evil. And then there's the people who do bad, but have good intentions, and the people who do good, but with bad intentions.
now drawing that annalogy into something relivant, White is Jesus, Black is Satin. God is the whole figure.
Now with all that said, lets get back to topic:
God also said that he created life on other planets for his own reasons, so yes, I do believe in aliens, but I think they look exactly like us.
again, they have the same mind as us, per se.
The only thing that maybe would be different is the way the animals look.
animals look the way they are because the enviorment shapes them like that. If the idea of Evolution was around when the bible was written, I'm sure it would have been included, but unfortunately, the bible was written when people thought the world was still flat, and the smartest people had basiclly 5th grade education levels.
Some of the races on other planets are more advanced, some are less advanced, but I one heard that we were the only 'world' that would kill Jesus.
sounds like a blief that would come from Jehosaphs Whitnesses (ouch on that butched spelling
h: ). They also beleive God will send a space craft to save them, take them to space, and return them once God makes earth right again.
I'm not knocking it, just bringing some insight.
Originally posted by azn_redneck
The aliens are actually angels of God. I read it on the internet, so it must be true.
Seriously though, some people think that the grey alien dudes are the "Sons of Man" mentioned in the Bible.
It seems possible, since no one really knows. I won't rule it out, tho.