On the 8th day, God created ET...maybe?

I have been pondering something...a bit of a disclaimer beforehand though

I am an Agnostic, this means I find the bible to be akin to lord of the rings or other works of neat fiction...I am simply interested in this as a curiousity of a bible worldview held by followers of biblical faiths...ok, now the question

The bible talks about the heavens and earth creation...and stops around the time he puts the finishing touches on earth with man...after that, its pretty focused on mankind and whats going on here.

Could God, after the creation of earth and all the stuff on it, have decided to start creating other inhabited worlds here and there. Some very religious types state that there are no ETs because the bible makes no direct reference to them, however the bible (especially the old) is a pretty dated book, and it would be rather difficult to believe God coming to earth to add his latest amendments and accomplishments 400 light years away which would be of little consequence to us to begin with.

Whats your theory on what God did on the 8th day. We look through the hubble and see nearly infinate amounts of galaxys, all housing stars, many stars of which have planets...could the biblical God be keeping busy making world after world and simply not bothering to write new passages every few years/days/hours whenever he does something new, or is God pretty much limited to this one world and no other?

btw, I personally dont care if you believe or disbelieve in the bible...this thread is to speculate about the limitations of God as far as ET goes...if the several thousand year old documents cuffed his creation, or if it simply is not of our concern..not if some dude in the midwest believes in the bible..so try to keep on posts on topic.

No, because the story is basic polytheistic etiology that teaches readers to obey and follow rules.


Polytheistic, yes = ""Behold, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil; and now, lest he put forth his hand and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever" -- 23 therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken"

Also, if you look at every piece of etiology from around the world, you will see that the gods create man and are frightened of his capabilities. That is due to the fact that the story is teaching against the unbounded aspirations of the mind. It is meant to temper people, lowering their desire for reckless ambitions, least they become to vain and dangerous.

Sorry to derail.

Anyways, if God created aliens, it was certainly when he created the heavens.

reply to post by TheOneElectric


So, your theory is that God wouldn't create anymore because the initial creation (us) became too powerful and unpredictable to begin with...best not to make that mistake again?

reply to post by SaturnFX


Oh, no no. Sorry about that, the first part was basically saying that the seven day discussion is almost useless because it is just a story to teach people to:
1.Obey
2.Don't be too ambitious

My last sentence is my take on the creation of aliens. If we had to use the Genesis time frame, I would say it would be when God created the heavens. So, basically, before the Earth.

Sorry about the mixup

reply to post by TheOneElectric


Ahh, but the initial post question remains. Genesis can be debated and basically say because Genesis didnt talk about little green men, they therefore dont exist even to today.

I am asking...post-bible, could God have and be creating civilizations. Is there any reason why 2 weeks ago, God didnt create a thriving world of monkeymen over in Alpha Centuri, or like 20 minutes after the last word in the bible was scribeed, God decided to create banana people on some distant planet...is there any contingency or belief that God wont create more worlds...

reply to post by SaturnFX


It all matters on ones belief system. I know life was created pre-bible, and is continuing to be created post bible...I don't believe they are springing up out of the ground, but more or less deriving from the true God's natural order of things, slow evolution. So yeah, you can say that God is still cooking up more and more sentients, but I can assure you, we are definitely not the first.

reply to post by SaturnFX



There is no Day 8 in the bible, God could have created hundreds of Millions of Planets with little green men on board, we have no clue....

As far as we know after god rested on day 7, he hung out for a few billion years and created man, to say the Earth is only 10,000 years old is kinda of mockery of science. I have noticed relgious people and secular people are close minded when it comes to things of this nature.

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I would say... First the aliens A.K.A. angels. But they weren't any fun.
Only said yes and amen.

Then He let them watch us for him. After creating us. Obviously !
Then he finally gets surprised, by some of his angels going hay wire.

He was mad about it. Laughing his ass off. It cost ed him creating another species, finally making them fun to be with.

So,for his entertainment, bound them to the Earth and live with the very thing they lost a screw on. For future entertainment.

Like that film with Jim Cary.
Which I found to be the most hilarious part, was to see him getting suspicious and Trey's to confirm his suspicions.

His tummy must be painful, after at least two millennia of laughter.


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I think on the eighth day GOD said "You are supposed to be at work! Get to work and do the whole week over again." At least that is how my life works.

Hey Saturn...your posts are better than your threads.

is there any contingency or belief that God wont create more worlds...

If a god exists and is responsible for creating this world, a world that yearns for a religious crutch, I can only hope god/it has lost the recipe...


The idea that there are other worlds where religion thrives in a similar way that it does here, makes it all seem like a sick joke.


And, if a god did indeed create other worlds and not just ours, I wonder if they took to religion as quickly and negligently..?


If so, I wonder if they tweaked the good word as poorly as some on this planet have...if this is the case, we better hope they can't travel from point A to point B yet - otherwise we may find ourselves screwed as Alien Missionaries land here and 'convert' us...





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this makes sense considering that god created us then why would he not create other planets with life?....yet the bible says god created us in replication of him so what if on the other planets the aliens look like humans?

From a Christian perspective i personally believe that the universe is filled with life. The bible doesn't say really either way whether there is or isn't. I know that God only gives you what you really need to know that pertains only to you. But, there are strong indicators that there is extra terrestrials for example. Angels were created before Man, there is one account of a non human race created. We have fossilized data of ancient civilizations that existed before the creation of man yet we have no information in the bible about these civilizations except the account of war in the heavens before man was created about the lucifer rebellion. So my point is, very strong possibility there is life out there besides our own, its just God has chosen not to reveal it unto us either because he wants us to discover them for ourselves or reveal it to us when we're ready.


-Keeper

Quit a can-o-worms you open up here. I hear both religious and non-religious reason in there minds, "I mean there are countless billions upon billions of Stars, certainly we aren't the only ones." But I think this misses the point. I think the point of the absolute mind blowing massiveness of the Universe is to show how great and magnificant God is. It should also show us how special we are, not how insignificant compared to the vastness of the universe we are. So to the point, I do not think there is another Earth out there like ours. However, I know there is other life. There are many Heavenly creatures that are out there somewhere. They are not like us, and they were probably created before us. Im thinking of cherubim, the creatures that dwell in Heaven, etc. etc.

Since you asked, let try this in another way of thinking.

Alien? What is an Alien? Something that is foreign to "Earth"? Something that habitates a place other than "Earth"?

What are the Sons of GOD? Something that is foreign to "Earth"? Something that Habitates a place other than "Earth"?

How can we be certain? Lets look at the account of the fall, covered in Genesis 6.

6:2 That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they
were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
6:3 And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with
man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an
hundred and twenty years.
6:4 There were giants in the earth in those days; 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.

Now this defines what "SOME" of the Sons of GOD had been doing, and who they where doing, and what all that doing produced. This example is to indicate the Sons of GOD had come to Earth, since it is very clear, the Daughters of man did not go to the Heavens. The balance of this Chapter covers where these problems occured and how GOD intended to correct it.

We see in the following the fact that the Sons of GOD came to Earth and left their place of Habitation to do some doing, as noted above.

Jude

1:5 I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.
1:6 And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.
1:7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.

Are you seeing some familiar events yet.

Aliens coming to Earth, taking women and creating Hybrid Creatures.
Does this sound like what the Sumerians discussed in Ancient texts?
Does this sound like Greek and Roman Mythology?
or
Does this sound like anything you may have recently seen on T.V.? How about the seires V for an example. How about George Noory on Coast 2 Coast at least twice a week.

These events noted in the Bible are events which are occuring once again today.

We are even forewarned that this would occur, right after the Parable of the Fig Tree, (Israel reborn)

Luke 17

26 And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.
27 They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.

As it was in the Days of Noah, so shall it be in the days.....

What Days? The End Day's, after Israel is Reborn. Funny how the "Alien" Encounters increased and became "Noticable" after 1949. Strange isn't it.

We can even take another source, Biblical in some circles and see what took place.

Enoch 6 thru 10
VI-XI. The Fall of the Angels: the Demoralisation of Mankind: the Intercession of the Angels on behalf of Mankind. The Dooms pronounced by God on the Angels: the Messianic Kingdom (a Noah fragment).

CHAPTER VI.
1. And it came to pass when the children of men had multiplied that in those days were born unto them beautiful and comely daughters. 2. And the angels, the children of the heaven, saw and lusted after them, and said to one another: 'Come, let us choose us wives from among the children of men and beget us children.' 3. And Semjâzâ, who was their leader, said unto them: 'I fear ye will not indeed agree to do this deed, and I alone shall have to pay the penalty of a great sin.' 4. And they all answered him and said: 'Let us all swear an oath, and all bind ourselves by mutual imprecations not to abandon this plan but to do this thing.' 5. Then sware they all together and bound themselves by mutual imprecations upon it. 6. And they were in all two hundred; who descended ⌈in the days⌉ of Jared on the summit of Mount Hermon, and they called it Mount Hermon, because they had sworn and bound themselves by mutual imprecations upon it.

The balance of these 4 Chapters is well worth the reading, especially if you would actually like to know what these "Aliens" actually are. They were doing exactly what the "Alien" events today are doing and will do. There is NOTHING NEW under the SUN.

Now, you spoke about the 8th day, and this creation occuring. I will suggest this event is older than that. MUCH OLDER.

What you have proposed, is something created in a period of Time between Genesis 1:1 and Genesis 1:2

As is clearly covered within the following Chronology of Creation in the Bible... it doesn't start in Genesis! there is a large period of time that is actually occuring between the first two verses of Chapter 1 of Genesis.

It would be "within this period" that your ETs/Aliens/Sons of GOD would have been designed.

I have gone to this extent to offer you various views that should be considered and reviewed when faced with questions such as you have asked.

Your Question itself, is a great question. It is something that SHOULD BE DISCUSSED openly, freely, and collectively.

I have presented some things you MAY NOT have considered previously, and trust this would assist you in settling this question for yourself. There are many more examples, and actually several TOPICs Specifically directed towards these thoughts.

In closing I would suggest, the only thing that may have been created on the 8th day, was The MAN, Adam, the one to Till the Ground, and I only say this, because Adam is created after the 7th day, the Day of rest.

Good luck in your search for answers.

Ciao

Shane

The 'Eighth' day has not come yet imo. That is the day when the Son of God rules the Universe.

I believe with all my heart that humans are not the only species of "aliens" the Creator has created. There are many other perhaps infinite other "alien" species that are not humans.