From: drwho@omar.WPI.EDU (Eric Ant Von Laudermann)
Newsgroups: talk.religion.newage,alt.alien.visitors
Subject: Re: Bigfootf spaceman?
Date: 12 Dec 1992 02:23:07 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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In article <1992Dec11.163629.3130@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> rwd4f@poe.acc.Virginia.EDU (Rob Dobson) writes:
>Dear God-fearing people: I believe that all of these space people that
>Mr Winston and others talk about are not actual biological organisms like
>humans but either Demons or Angels. Read the Bible sometime: in Genesis
>you will find no mention of God creating humanoids, or, in fact, any other
>life, on any othe planet besides Earth. 

The Bible also says that the Earth goes around the sun, that pi=3,
that God *made* the Pharoah keep Moses from leaving Egypt, and has an
explicit list of which animal to kill for each sin you commit. The
Bible claims that knowing the difference between good and evil is evil
in itself, and that a sinner's descendants are just as guilty as the 
sinner was.  It claims that every human has sinned, which, I presume, 
also includes infants who die mere minutes after birth; I guess these 
infants go straight to Hell.

The Bible does not mention life on other planets.  It doesn't mention
the *existence* of other planets, either.  But they're there.
The Bible does not mention America, or Antarctica, or the dinosaurs, or
television, or the Usenet.  It doesn't mention *you*, either.  There
are lots of things the bible doesn't mention.  Perhaps there was
simply not enough room?  Perhaps God didn't want the focus of the book
to get buried and swamped by other things?  Perhaps many of the things
God could have described (like TV's, VCR's, Post-It note pads)
wouldn't have made sense to the readers of the first century A.D., so He 
left them out?

It also says that the end of the world is just around the corner, and
that was almost 2000 years ago.  I wonder what you were doing on
October 28, 1992?

>If you really are seeing or hearing
>people floating over Lake Isabella what you are really hearing is probably
>demons speaking in an attempt to get you to curse Christ. 

Do you believe in God?  In the angels?  If so, why do you assume that
any supernatural event must be evil?

I have heard many stories about aliens interacting with humans, but I
have never once heard of an alien that told anyone to curse Christ.

>Be careful; even
>if the space people appear to be angels, it is very likely that they
>are really demons in the guise of angels. DO NOT FALL DOWN AND WORSHIP
>THEM--no real angel would ask such a thing.

And no alien ever has.

Did it ever occur to you that maybe the angels and demons in the Bible
*are* aliens, but since nobody knew there were any other planets
back then, nobody had invented the word "alien", so they called them
"angels" and "demons" instead?

If the angels really were aliens, would it make them any less superior
or holy?  If God the Creator was an alien, would he be any less God?
(Besides, God *is* an alien.  Is He from the planet Earth?  No.)

Did it ever occur to you that if you have to read a book in order to
see the glory of God, then something is terribly wrong with the
Universe?

I am a Christian.

--E.V.L. (drwho@wpi.wpi.edu)  # Biblical contradiction of the week:
a.k.a.:  The Eternal Newbie,  # Luke 14:26,
The Amazing Tubeman!,         # Matthew 19:19
Murphy's Law Incarnate        # 
Any similarities between what I say and what I mean are purely coincidental.