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According to Christian doctrine, the Most High created man by his image and likeness, and in addition, he sacrificed the only son for the salvation of the human race. However, what if we are not the only sentient beings in the universe?
What if life exists on other celestial bodies, and on the Earth itself has long been “grazed” by aliens from other planets, other measurements? Who saved the aliens in this case? And did you save at all? Beyond no doubt for world religions the discovery of extraterrestrial civilizations and sentient beings can be a serious test and even a challenge.
Finnish theologian Vesa Nissinen from the University of Helsinki already decade working on a voluminous dissertation on what impact can provide a picture of the world that the largest world religions, especially Christianity, proof the existence of aliens.
According to the researcher, the mere discovery of a simple life beyond the earth is capable of making a real revolution in consciousness of humanity, commensurate with the discoveries of Nicholas Copernicus in sixteenth century. Then the church was forced to admit that our the planet revolves around the sun and is not the middle of the universe. And the discovery of extraterrestrial civilizations will make the role of our “blue ball “in the universe is even less significant.
Did God create aliens?
Nissinen says: “The Bible describes the process of creation by God. life on earth. However, could the Creator create life elsewhere? The most logical message suggests that the Higher Mind is the root cause of the whole universe, and in this case the Almighty could create not life itself on Earth, on Mars or elsewhere, but simply conditions for her appearance. Many believers share this point of view, like many proponents of the theory of evolution, they believe that constantly a developing and changing universe appeared out of nothing. ”
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Theological colleague Jussi Solberg, who works at the Finnish Center for study of the church, believes that extraterrestrial life does not represent for Evangelical Lutheran teachings are absolutely no threat. The expert reports: “My position is not official for the church, but I personally don’t see any difficulties for religions in life exists (always existed) and beyond our the planet. But the discovery of intelligent life would certainly change religion. Most likely, when the first signs of contact with extraterrestrial intelligence, the reliability of such a finding will first cause heated debate, and another split will occur in the church. Not less after some time the existence of aliens most people will be taken as fact. ”
According to a recent survey, the existence of a reasonable Extraterrestrial life is believed by 32% of American Christians, 44% living in the USA Muslims, as well as 55% of atheists and agnostics.
The subject of the existence of extraterrestrial intelligence raises a number of curious questions. For example, what do aliens look like? Do they look representatives of extraterrestrial civilizations per person? If not, then why did God create in his image and likeness only humans? A maybe it is the aliens who are similar to the Creator, and not us?
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And by the way, will the “green men” believe in God? More precisely, Will they believe in our God? It is believed that the Vatican holds a clear position on this issue: it will be necessary conduct missionary activity among aliens. But rather total, aliens will be more perfect spiritually creatures than us? What should the Church do in this case?
Will our religions become worthless?
Some clergymen suggest that salvation could be granted to each civilization separately. However, such a theory also criticized, and here’s why. Or Jesus Christ traveled from one planet to another, bringing himself and there in sacrifice, or God’s children are much larger (countless since the mind is infinite in the Universe)). And in fact, and in another case it undermines the evangelical view of uniqueness this event.
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Of course, aliens will bring mental confusion to the world believers, if they are more developed in relation to us (and this, in general, and so it is clear to many). If they are ahead of us in this plan for many billions of years, then such creatures may even seem to us gods (or maybe these are gods?). Recall that in Indigenous peoples of the USA, for whom the technology of the conquistadors looked like real magic. Now imagine how advanced aliens can be in compared with earthlings in general …
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There is an opinion that the appearance of “green men” in general will result in a large-scale religious crisis, about which the Church does not will be able to recover. Either they disappear altogether, or new ones appear. religions dramatically different from those we have Today.
On the other hand, what should happen so that religions do not became at all? Yes, with many tasks that are traditionally performed by the Church (organization of society, maintaining morality, justification of wars, explanation of the structure of the universe), today perfectly do the legislation, the natural sciences, state and human rights.
But what about spiritual tasks – for example, the meaning of life? Obviously, the natural science position is that the meaning of life is only in the continuation of the human race, many will no longer be satisfied. Also ideas of karma and salvation that bring to the human are very important the existence of faith in justice. Finally, let’s not forget reincarnation and the afterlife. But there is still a theory that we all live in the matrix.
Can the reality of all of the above be refuted aliens or, conversely, scientifically proven? Most likely the answer will be completely different from what we expect it to be, and to the present earthly race (the fifth race, which is already being replaced by the sixth) does not understand that will become with the consciousness of the future man, his spirituality, and therefore with religions on our planet …
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