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Old 12-19-2022, 04:09 PM
 
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God does share knowledge of Ghosts and UFOs even Sasquatch beast when people take the time to love God and get to know Him and His truth ...... See the dumb humans from the OP are the world and their physical laws, where these are all unseen spirits instead..... See, every one of these have been known to disappear in thin air, create no wake in air or water ... WHO does that ? ...... But unseen spirits who can use the physical of the earth and the spirit of another realm or dimension....... Where all this spirit are evil, but the living God rejected all these
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Old 12-19-2022, 05:16 PM
 
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Why didn't God share knowledge of Ghosts and Aliens ????...........Ghosts and Aliens are a phenomena that constantly show up in History and even present day (read your history books).
God warned against consulting Mediums/ fortune tellers (today's clairvoyant consultants) for they are not dealing with a real person but in contact with demons pretending to be the ghost/spirit of someone.

Because the ' sin issue ' originated here on Earth it has to be settled first here on Earth before there will be intelligent life elsewhere in the universe.
The ' sin issue ' will Not be settled before Jesus' coming thousand-year reign over Earth happens.
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Old 12-19-2022, 05:31 PM
 
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Why didn't God share knowledge of Ghosts and Aliens ????

Ghosts and Aliens are a phenomena that constantly show up in History and even present day (read your history books).

The mere presence or idea of an Alien being shakes ones 'Beliefs to the core' ----
  1. Is my Religion Real or Fake?
  2. If my Religion is Real, why didn't 'MY GOD' tell me about these Aliens----did he think i would never hear of them?
  3. Was there a reason he kept me in the dark about Ghosts / Aliens ?
  4. IF so, why didn't God have one of his apostles or Writers speak of them in the Torah or Bible?
I have come up with 4 possible answers to this conundrum;
  • God is a Hoax and the Bible is the Play-book of Charlatans
  • God didn't think we would ever 'think to ask' about Ghosts or Aliens (she thought we were dumb)
  • Ghosts and Aliens don't exist... they are another Scam.
  • Ghosts and Aliens are really 'Satan's Devils'----looking to deceive more 'Dumb Humans' into another explanation (other than Jesus and Saints).
Any other ideas on 'Why God didn't share knowledge of Ghosts or Aliens?'

Thoughts / Comments ?


Ghosts don't exist in my estimation and there is no actual confirmation proof that aliens have visited us. I don't see why God would need to teach us all in that book. The Bible is more of a spiritual/lifestyle roadmap than a here is everything.
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Old 12-19-2022, 06:27 PM
 
Location: Sun City West, Arizona
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God does share knowledge of Ghosts and UFOs even Sasquatch beast when people take the time to love God and get to know Him and His truth ...... See the dumb humans from the OP are the world and their physical laws, where these are all unseen spirits instead..... See, every one of these have been known to disappear in thin air, create no wake in air or water ... WHO does that ? ...... But unseen spirits who can use the physical of the earth and the spirit of another realm or dimension....... Where all this spirit are evil, but the living God rejected all these
oh my

and unicorns too, i suppose
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Old 12-19-2022, 06:36 PM
 
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God does share knowledge of Ghosts and UFOs even Sasquatch beast when people take the time to love God and get to know Him and His truth ...... See the dumb humans from the OP are the world and their physical laws, where these are all unseen spirits instead..... See, every one of these have been known to disappear in thin air, create no wake in air or water ... WHO does that ? ...... But unseen spirits who can use the physical of the earth and the spirit of another realm or dimension....... Where all this spirit are evil, but the living God rejected all these
You can shoehorn pretty much anything into a 750,000+ book full of various tales.

That's really the thing about the Bible - it's everything to everyone. It's everything you want it to be, whether you're you, or some other rando... or Jim Jones... or David Koresh.

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Old 12-19-2022, 07:42 PM
 
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I am not saying a word until Michael posts first, because you all know where I am going with this one.....I guess I have become too predictable

Happy 2nd Night of Hanukkah BTW
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Old 12-19-2022, 09:36 PM
 
Location: El Paso, TX
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Why didn't God share knowledge of Ghosts and Aliens ????

Ghosts and Aliens are a phenomena that constantly show up in History and even present day (read your history books).

The mere presence or idea of an Alien being shakes ones 'Beliefs to the core' ----
  1. Is my Religion Real or Fake?
  2. If my Religion is Real, why didn't 'MY GOD' tell me about these Aliens----did he think i would never hear of them?
  3. Was there a reason he kept me in the dark about Ghosts / Aliens ?
  4. IF so, why didn't God have one of his apostles or Writers speak of them in the Torah or Bible?
I have come up with 4 possible answers to this conundrum;
  • God is a Hoax and the Bible is the Play-book of Charlatans
  • God didn't think we would ever 'think to ask' about Ghosts or Aliens (she thought we were dumb)
  • Ghosts and Aliens don't exist... they are another Scam.
  • Ghosts and Aliens are really 'Satan's Devils'----looking to deceive more 'Dumb Humans' into another explanation (other than Jesus and Saints).
Any other ideas on 'Why God didn't share knowledge of Ghosts or Aliens?'

Thoughts / Comments ?


The idea of the existence of life on other planets, even intelligent beings, doesn't shake my beliefs. In the vastness of this universe there almost certainly is intelligent life elsewhere.

As for ghosts, all I can say is that my brother and I once got on an elevator just a second or two after another man got on, and when we got on, he wasn't there. So . . .

Okay, KingCat. You're up.
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Old 12-20-2022, 12:40 PM
 
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THanks Michael

It does not shake my beliefs at all, in fact, I think it is exciting. Humans need to have mysteries, it motivates us to explore.

If the OP was referencing in some way the Bible, and we do have a few people here who are into Sola Scriptura, then let me point out first that ghosts are in fact referenced in the Bible. In fact, from an anthropological perspective, animism and spirit worship likely predated written history . There are a few old testament references (rules?) forbidding the contacting of spirits or those who contact the dead. As such, there had to be a belief in ghosts, lest there would be no shamans or other charlatans (Deuteronomy 18:10-11 )
I seem to recall a story in the New Testament whereby a Risen Jesus appeared to his followers, who thought that they were seeing a Ghost...Luke 24:39, as well as thinking that a Ghost was walking on water at one time (turned out, according to the story, to be Jesus) SO belief in Ghosts has been around since pre-Biblical times.
What we do not have, and have never had, is scientific demonstrable proof of ghosts, but we have accounts such as Michael's now and this goes way way back to as long as humans have been around.

Now in regard to Aliens, and again, this is answering if someone asks why God did not reveal Aliens in the Bible, we must remember that the writers of the Bible practiced a very Earth-Centric belief. Earth, according to the thoughts and ideas of many cultures, was the center of the Universe, and was all that was. (Some people still believe this) It was not until scientific advancements and mathematical knowledge (thank the Arabs for Algebra) let Galileo to demonstrate that the Earth Rotates around the Sun, and unknown to people in ancient times, the Sun is in fact a star. Now Astrologers noted that some stars had specific patterns, and they were called wanderers. Astrologers labeled them later as planets, but knowledge that they were anything like what we know now did not exist. So the idea of other life on one of those planets or around the stars did not exist at the time because Biblical writers focused, as many people did, ONLY in what was happening in their immediate world. Some of these people never traveled more than a mile or two from where they were born anyway.

As for Aliens on other planets, we have zero information one way or the other .

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But a good description of a mathematical theory in 1961 can be seen here, and in the 51 years since, we can say now that we understand that almost all stars have a solar system, and with the Billions of stars in the galaxy, many could have feasibly sprouted life.

SO the reason the Bible mentions no aliens was simply because no such concept would have existed in the culture of the time, being that the widespread belief and accepted fact of the time was that the earth was a unique creation of God and the Center of the Universe, if not the WHOLE universe.


Now I have to throw in The Sasquatch and Mermaids briefly.. They have revealed themselves only to a select few, not enough that we can prove one way or another that they exist and certainly in no way to study them. Same situation with ghosts and Aliens, perhaps someday though our technology and scientific breakthroughs might show that in fact Aliens are all around and so are ghosts. but until then, we as humans will have to be entertained but remember that the Yeti and the Mermaid are fictional beings.
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Old 12-20-2022, 01:11 PM
 
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OH and Happy 3rd night of Hanukah



I am not Jewish, but I do appreciate the Influence that Jewish Mythology has had on the shaping of world cultures. And when I bought my youngest son a chocolate advent calendar and the older on a cheese advent Calendar, I bought an 8 day of Hanukkah one for the wife and I to share, as neither one of us has any need for 8 pieces of chocolate over any days...
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Old 12-20-2022, 01:53 PM
 
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THanks Michael

It does not shake my beliefs at all, in fact, I think it is exciting. Humans need to have mysteries, it motivates us to explore.

If the OP was referencing in some way the Bible, and we do have a few people here who are into Sola Scriptura, then let me point out first that ghosts are in fact referenced in the Bible. In fact, from an anthropological perspective, animism and spirit worship likely predated written history . There are a few old testament references (rules?) forbidding the contacting of spirits or those who contact the dead. As such, there had to be a belief in ghosts, lest there would be no shamans or other charlatans (Deuteronomy 18:10-11 )
I seem to recall a story in the New Testament whereby a Risen Jesus appeared to his followers, who thought that they were seeing a Ghost...Luke 24:39, as well as thinking that a Ghost was walking on water at one time (turned out, according to the story, to be Jesus) SO belief in Ghosts has been around since pre-Biblical times.
What we do not have, and have never had, is scientific demonstrable proof of ghosts, but we have accounts such as Michael's now and this goes way way back to as long as humans have been around.

Now in regard to Aliens, and again, this is answering if someone asks why God did not reveal Aliens in the Bible, we must remember that the writers of the Bible practiced a very Earth-Centric belief. Earth, according to the thoughts and ideas of many cultures, was the center of the Universe, and was all that was. (Some people still believe this) It was not until scientific advancements and mathematical knowledge (thank the Arabs for Algebra) let Galileo to demonstrate that the Earth Rotates around the Sun, and unknown to people in ancient times, the Sun is in fact a star. Now Astrologers noted that some stars had specific patterns, and they were called wanderers. Astrologers labeled them later as planets, but knowledge that they were anything like what we know now did not exist. So the idea of other life on one of those planets or around the stars did not exist at the time because Biblical writers focused, as many people did, ONLY in what was happening in their immediate world. Some of these people never traveled more than a mile or two from where they were born anyway.

As for Aliens on other planets, we have zero information one way or the other .

\
But a good description of a mathematical theory in 1961 can be seen here, and in the 51 years since, we can say now that we understand that almost all stars have a solar system, and with the Billions of stars in the galaxy, many could have feasibly sprouted life.

SO the reason the Bible mentions no aliens was simply because no such concept would have existed in the culture of the time, being that the widespread belief and accepted fact of the time was that the earth was a unique creation of God and the Center of the Universe, if not the WHOLE universe.


Now I have to throw in The Sasquatch and Mermaids briefly.. They have revealed themselves only to a select few, not enough that we can prove one way or another that they exist and certainly in no way to study them. Same situation with ghosts and Aliens, perhaps someday though our technology and scientific breakthroughs might show that in fact Aliens are all around and so are ghosts. but until then, we as humans will have to be entertained but remember that the Yeti and the Mermaid are fictional beings.
thanks for this great post! I enjoyed reading it. To think in just the observable universe there are 100's of billions of galaxies (our own very average galaxy has several hundred billion stars). Even if there would be on average only one intelligent species per galaxy in just the observable universe, that would mean there are still hundreds of billions of intelligent civilizations. Who knows how many in the possible infinity of the cosmos.

Big problem though - if there aren't that many intelligent civilizations in any given galaxy, they are so incredibly far away that its quite possible we have a universe teeming with intelligent life as a whole, but the distances too far and great that the vast majority of them will never know another. What a downer lol but I guess each of them would feel special.
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