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suminonA

Maybe religion is inherently human.

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suminonA

May I ask what your mother tongue is?

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suminonA

Iâ€™ve heard the version that â€œin His imageâ€ means just â€œwith intelligenceâ€, therefore the â€œanthropomorphicâ€ interpretation is just that, an interpretation (and not a fact). For the ones that take that â€œlikenessâ€ more literally, there is one little question Iâ€™d like to ask: what is...

suminonA

Youâ€™re in a desert walking along in the sand when all of the sudden you look down , and you see a tortoise, itâ€™s crawling toward you. You reach down, you flip the tortoise over on its back. The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself ov...

suminonA

Feh. Smarter beings would realize they have no chance against us.

Or they might have realized that they don't have to go against us, we're dooming ourselfs already. This would explain why are we so "alone" in the Universe.

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suminonA

Could be because of the eventual retaliation.

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suminonA

YFD? Your f****** Diety?

Your Favourite Deity

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suminonA

Hmm, are you calling "us" animals?

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suminonA

Epistemology is one of the branches of theology. How we know what we think we know, where does this knowledge come from, etc, etc. A branch I think you'd be quite interested in. ;) Yes, yes !! This is the stuff Iâ€™d like to hear more about. :) If only someone who knows this things could present th...

suminonA

[debate] [â€¦] But if someone believes something in humility, is that still egocentric? I don't think it is. I wonder how this concept of â€œhumilityâ€ really works. I mean, is it for example believing that YFD loves you (and all the galaxy), but maybe youâ€™re wrong to believe so? (I know Iâ€™m e...

suminonA

Many thanks to you too, Eaquae Legit. Could you develop a bit the second point, â€œthe theology of the Eucharist.â€, please? You were talking in a previous post about the epistemology of theology. That too would be a nice thing if you (or someone else) could present in large lines for starters. You...

suminonA

That is funny! Thanks Dr. Mobius

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suminonA

KennEnder, thank you greatly for your input. I like the fact that even if you couldnâ€™t answer my question as it stands (or seems to stand), you said whatâ€™s â€œwrong with itâ€. Just my two cents, because I have no time to recite lessons of millenia. For the record, and as I already said in a pre...

suminonA

*Bump*

I really thought that there would be more answers. Is it such a difficult question? I'm still waiting, but I reserve my right to bump this from time to time, so maybe new people would take an interest in it.

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suminonA

Just to clarify, voting â€œYesâ€ means that if it were possible to see/perceive the face of the deity (it may vary from one deity to another), it would be recognizably human in appearance (as in two eyes, one nose, one mouth and so on). This would also imply anthropomorphic â€œbodyâ€. Voting â€œNo...

suminonA

So somewhere, aliens are being taught that on a planet somewhere this happened? No, we aren't deity but our planet is the one of promise and prophecy. So, maybe they're religion pushed them to more exploration. Maybe they were given commandments about contacting us, and that's why SETI hasn't found...

suminonA

As for you, suminonA, it wasn't a theory. Not even a hypothesis. A what if thought that is only good for a couple of short stories. You are also taking things too seriously. But it serves I guess. Very comforting to know that the religious people are once again out of their frickin' minds. Well, ma...

suminonA

So we are, after all, the centre of the Universe!!

Every time I here such theories I re-check the explanation.

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suminonA

Hey guys! It's been about a year! Welcome back! :) If life on other planets was indeed discovered there would be three groups when it comes to the religion aspect of the discovery. 1) People who would attempt to convert the aliens 2) People who would not attempt to convert the aliens 3) People who ...

suminonA

word.

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suminonA

Noted, Rei. As it seems, you'd prefer having the aliens believe in the Christian deity (and the TRUE Bible). I for one, think that we can â€œposeâ€ as divinities for any alien race a lot more inferior technologically than us. We might be â€œfar from perfectâ€, but we surely can have â€œgood intent...

suminonA

First off, what do you mean by getting closer to self-destructive tech? We've been there since the 1940's What's 60 years at the scale of this experiment? My answer: If this is all a giant experiment as you say and we're basically lab rats to them (why does that sound so familiar...?) then there's ...

suminonA

Oh, donâ€™t get me wrong, there are plenty of â€œdeitiesâ€ that didnâ€™t create us (see the IPU). But in order to get into the â€œBibleâ€, there must be some â€œcreationâ€ act, donâ€™t you agree?

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suminonA

I don't recall creation being a prerequisite of divinity.

Ok, ask the religious folks.

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suminonA

Ok, following the latest trend in this part of the forum, I have one purely hypothetical ethical dilemma : Should they get involved? What should they do? What could we do to get them involved? When I say â€œusâ€ I mean â€œthe human race as a wholeâ€ (a hypothetical entity to be sure). Who are â€œt...

suminonA

What if we were the deity in the aliens' bible?

Do you remember us (as a race) having created some alien race?

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suminonA

At this point, the specific details are just that, details. The important thing is that we have a sample of a definition that somehow â€œeliminatesâ€ the possibility described in my hypothetical. Eaquae Legit says that â€œmost of the definitionsâ€ are like this, but Reiâ€™s example will do, for th...

suminonA

I'm not sure what you're asking. Epistemology? Soteriology? Christology? Non-Christian theology? History of theology?

If in doubt, let's start with epistemology.

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suminonA

What if the aliens were the deity in the Bible?

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suminonA

Probably the Nicene Creed sums up what the Catholic view, along with many if not most Protestant views, says God is (the last few lines were not included as they pertain more to the faith itself than directly who God is): We believe in one God, the Father, the Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, o...

suminonA

I'll admit, I'm not really certain what you are asking. It sounds like you are asking what theology has concluded about the nature of God , but that question is so impossibly huge that it would be impractical to try and answer on a public forum, which leads me to suspect that I'm not quite followin...

suminonA

Well?

* taking another patience pill *

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suminonA

I wonder what the theologians would do when theyâ€™ll find out that the Deity in the Bible is actually an alien (race) in another galaxy. Probably not much. By definition , it couldn't be the God of the Bible. - - - emphasis added - - - (Ok, maybe this is for another thread, but as this one is abou...

suminonA

BTW Eaquae Legit, thanks for the wikipedia quotes.
You linked it. I assumed you'd read the article, and agreed with it, or you wouldn't have posted it.

I haven't put ONE link in this thread.

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suminonA

Again: theology is the study of the nature of God. The only premise necessary in this study is that it assumes diety exists. Theology includes Buddhism, Hinduism, etc. This is a definition of theology that came up in another thread. I donâ€™t think the author is relevant, thatâ€™s why I give no scr...

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Does YFD have a human face?

Should they get involved ?

The results of theology