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Ha, I got booted out of RE class in about 1972 for asking if Jesus had to appear on every planet in which intelligent life appears.
by infradig 6y ago
Ha, I got booted out of RE class in about 1972 for asking if Jesus had to appear on every planet in which intelligent life appears.
- bandie91 6y agoIMO it's bad to dismiss someone just because he asks tricky question. a practicing religion teacher should at least humble himself and admit that it's a deep question which he has not got the ready answer yet, but ready to discover the options accoring to church tradition and principles. you have just a few "stone-graved" truths in religion (like axiom) but it does not mean that you can not explore beyond that. see the great church doctors (eg. Thomas Aquinas), they discovered new answers within the base framework of the faith. sticking to your question, IMO it must be analogous to discovering sentient beings on the New World continents here on Earth in the 1500's. People there are turned out to be "human" (finally), so they are eligible for the gospel. so I guess if we discover extraterrassial sentient beings, even though they are not human in the sense of "homo sapiens" human, but they qualify to the criteria of being (in biblical terms) "the heirs of the heaven" (having free will, consciousness, etc. - we may figure out what really are these exactly by that time), then it's the same procedure as in Acts 1;8 "be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth^?^?^?^?^? OUTER SPACE".