The National Space and Aeronautics Administration (NASA) has recently contracted aid from 24 different theologians to help the organization better understand the effects of alien life in outer space, and how mankind would react to extraterrestrial contacts.
NASA’s Center for Theological Inquiry (CTI) at Princeton University says this sector of the group is to provide “bridges of understanding by convening theologians, scientists, scholars, and policymakers to think together – and inform public thinking – on global concerns.”
The program started in 2016, and aims ‘to answer questions that have baffled us since the begging of time such as what is life? What does it mean to be alive? Where do we draw the line between the human and the alien? What are the possibilities for sentient life in other places?,’ writes The Daily Mail.
Religious traditions would be an important feature in how humanity would work through any such confirmation of life elsewhere.
Because of that, it features as part of NASA’s ongoing aim to support work on ‘the societal implications of astrobiology’, working with various partner organizations, including the Center of Theological Inquiry at Princeton.
Rev. Dr. Andrew Davison, a priest and theologian at the University of Cambridge with a doctorate in biochemistry from Oxford
Davison is releasing a book in 2022 titled Astrobiology and Christian Doctrine, which he describes mankind is getting much closer to finding new life on other planets.
The headline findings are that adherents of a range of religious traditions report that they can take the idea in their stride.
Non-religious people also seem to overestimate the challenges that religious people … would experience if faced with evidence of alien life.
Snippets from the book
Astronomer and physics professor at Catholic University, Duilia de Mello, says she has several students who have posed philosophical questions about life outside of Earth.
If we are the products of creation, why couldn’t we have life evolving in other planets as well? There’s nothing that says otherwise.
Head of the Vatican Observatory and a former scientific adviser to Pope Benedict, Rev. Jose Gabriel Funes, a Jesuit priest, said in 2008 there is no conflict in believing in God and what he referred to as “extraterrestrial brothers” that are possibly more evolved than we are.
How can we exclude that life has developed elsewhere?
Certainly, in a universe this big you can’t exclude this hypothesis.
Pope Francis in 2014 also turned some heads when he said he would gladly baptize ETs if asked, stating, “who are we to close doors [to anyone?]”
If, for example, tomorrow an expedition of Martians came to us here and one said ‘I want to be baptised!’, what would happen?
When the Lord shows us the way, who are we to say, ‘No, Lord, it is not prudent! No, let’s do it this way’. Who are we to close doors?
The Roman Catholic church has been increasingly having these discussions on non-human life. In April of 2021, the Society of Catholic Scientists (SCS) held in a conscience in Washington D.C. to discuss non-human intelligence, called “Extraterrestrials, AI, and Minds Beyond the Human.”
They covered ‘scientific and theological insights on the subjects of real and hypothetical intelligences, especially extraterrestrial and artificial intelligences,’ according to the Catholic News Agency.
Furthermore, other invited speakers discussed Catholic theology, astrochemistry, astrophysics, and evolutionary biology.
[It’s] very important nowadays because there are many people out there who think that science and faith are incompatible.I think if people see that there’s a large organization of a large number of scientists, [who are] devout, practicing Catholics, I think it has a witness value and is stronger evidence for people in the science department.
Dr. Stephen Barr, president of the Society of Catholic Scientists
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[11] And when the people saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voices, saying in the speech of Lycaonia, The gods are come down to us in the likeness of men. [12] And they called Barnabas, Jupiter; and Paul, Mercurius, because he was the chief speaker. [13] Then the priest of Jupiter, which was before their city, brought oxen and garlands unto the gates, and would have done sacrifice with the people. [14] Which when the apostles, Barnabas and Paul, heard of, they rent their clothes, and ran in among the people, crying out, [15] And saying, Sirs, why do ye these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and preach unto you that ye should turn from these vanities unto the living God, which made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all things that are therein: [16] Who in times past suffered all nations to walk in their own ways. [17] Nevertheless he left not himself without witness, in that he did good, and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness. [18] And with these sayings scarce restrained they the people, that they had not done sacrifice unto them.Acts 14:11-18
All these aliens and ETs are just spirits and devils – “which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation” (Jude 6) – are what is being blamed on.
I did a video years ago debunking the whole alien craze pushed in mainstream media, who try to rip the Bible apart to prove that other intergalactic beings exist.
But, leave it to the Catholics, who wish to subjugate everything under their feat, want to “evangelize” the Martians.
But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
Matthew 24:37
In Noah’s day, the fallen angels fornicated with women which created the giants. These angels are now rapidly returning because of the wickedness of man. But, they will be blamed on green men from Mars. Eventually the Vatican might float out some of these devils in physical flesh, from some lab-born creature they made.
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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Food for thought: when the catching up takes place (wrongfully called the rapture) they’re going to be saying all over the news “it was UFOs, aliens, planet such-and-such, etc.) the elitists will know it was Jesus but being His enemies, they’ll say otherwise. Then when the Antichrist shows up, they’ll say it’s Jesus.
I’ve wondered that for years. I don’t know. It may reveal itself when we get closer.
Do you think the Giants build the pyramids? Or were ancient men just that strong to lift those massive stones?
Hundreds of thousands of men I believe the Israelites if I’m not mistaken. If I’m mistaken, correct me.
I tend to think it was the angels that fell. Jesus Christ is the chief cornerstone, and a cornerstone is the same as a capstone. The pyramids all over the world are missing their capstones. Moreover, New Jerusalem is foursquare, the shape of a pyramid, as is the universe itself. So the angels created little heavens on earth type of a thing.