Did Jesus die for Klingons too?

[1938 Observer]

Where Oh where to place this topic??? Science & Technology or Religion ? so I opted for religion as this appears to be the main thrust of the article.

October 3, 2011 2:16 PM ByClara Moskowitz .CBSNEWS.


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(Space.com) ORLANDO, Fla. -- The discovery of intelligent aliens would be mind-blowing in many respects, but it could present a special dilemma for the world's religions, theologians pondering interstellar travel concepts say.


Christians, in particular, might take the news hardest, because the Christian belief system does not easily allow for other intelligent beings in the universe, Christian thinkers said Saturday at the 100 Year Starship Symposium, a meeting sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to discuss issues surrounding traveling to other stars.

In other words, "Did Jesus die for Klingons too?" as philosophy professor Christian Weidemannof Germany's Ruhr-University Bochum titled his talk at a panel on the philosophical and religious considerations of visiting other worlds.

"According to Christianity, an historic event some 2,000 years ago was supposed to save the whole of creation," Weidemann said. "You can grasp the conflict." (10 Alien Encounters Debunked)

Here's how the debate goes: If the whole of creation includes 125 billion galaxies with hundreds of billions of stars in each, as astronomers think, then what if some of these stars have planets with advanced civilizations, too? Why would Jesus Christ have come to Earth, of all the inhabited planets in the universe, to save Earthlings and abandon the rest of God's creatures?


ful article & video at the link. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/...20114884.shtml

[Lizzie]

No takers on this one, Gordon, you rascal! Setting the cat amongst the pigeons, are you? May I offer the possibility that God was a prolific procreator and the Klingons had their own Son of God along with many other alien forms having theirs.

[1938 Observer]

No takers on this one, Gordon, you rascal! Setting the cat amongst the pigeons, are you? May I offer the possibility that God was a prolific procreator and the Klingons had their own Son of God along with many other alien forms having theirs.

[sandyc]

Just what is an intelligent life form?
We think somehow that mankind is the ultimate creature (?) in the universe. How typically inward thinking.
As to the postulation, I see no reason why Jesus could not also the Klingon's saviour.
The church has for reasons of Job Safety and power kept much secret over the centuries since its founding - e.g. Dead Sea scrolls.

I for one have to believe that other areas in the Universe are home to intelligence, even using our own narrow definition.
After all we know now that life forms can and do exist in what would have been impossible environments only a few years ago - e.g. Undersea vents and the amazing life forms way down there.
We are just too conceited...
I have to believe in something better, looking at what we are doing as so called intelligent creatures.

Sandy

[apictish1]

The death of Jesus to save humanity from it's original sin is allegorical.
Jesus represents the PHYSICAL incarnation of God, just as we all (including aliens) are focused on our individual physical incarnations. However, the spiritual reality is that we are all part of god. The story of Jesus dying to save us from sin is just a parable to represent how the physical illusion of our separation from god can disappear when our souls rise above the limitation of a merely physical "reality".

[WYScotsman]

C.S. Lewis alluded to the possibility of this in his space trilogy. If life existed on other planets, Jesus probably would have travelled to such places after Earth to deal with all creation seeing. He noted that His mission was restoration of creation to God so this would be a natural course of events.