So....

[badstar]

If Jesus was born on Earth and revealed to humans as the Messiah and whatnot...

what about the inhabitantsof other planets (yeah,I know...that's debated. personally, I believe in the existence of life on other planets as a default. I think it's unreasonable to consider how huge the universe is and think that the only intelligent life exists on Earth...)

But I digress. For serious...assuming that there is life on other planets, what becomes of them when they die? Is/was there some alien Jesus to show them the way? Or do they get to burn in hell?

(Yes, I am sitting at my computer at work and contemplating these and other questions. shows just how much fun I'm having, eh?)

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[nofate301.livejournal.com]

I think...

I don't care.

*toddles off*

[leiacat.livejournal.com]

If there's life on other planets, their contract with their alleged creator might be different. Meaning, they might use an altogether different afterlife mechanism, or they might have a tentacle.Jesus of their very own.

(Not that I believe in this planet's Jesus, either, but just sayin'.)

[fuego.livejournal.com]

hehehe...yeah, i know.

it's just the sort of thign that my brain comes up with when left to its own devices.

[seaya.livejournal.com]

I think that beings on other planets might have such a different way of communicating and thinking than we do that we might not be able to understand it.

For example their language could be communicated by bodily odors.

Or perhaps their logic could have 3 positions rather than our binary.

So, your question really only applies to Star Trek style aliens which are really humans in rubber suits and analogous to current problems among peoples ;).

Jesus as Space Alien

[saratoga80.livejournal.com]

If we assume the Chrstian Triune God, and Jesus as Fully God and Fully Mortal as a divine mystery, then it's entirely possible that Jesus appeared as an equivalent Messiah on another planet. I am making this assumption for the ake of the original post, and mean no disrespect to any other religion here.

Since I am a more pragmatic religious type, I believe Life is God's gift to the universe, and that all forms of belief are neither more correct nor better than any other.

At the end of the day, Christiantiy is a very adaptable religion - after all it adapted the Christmas tree, the rabbit, the egg and a bunch of other pagan symbols. It certainly is possible that if Jesus was God, or an incarnation of God, that therefore there could have been mutltiple Jesus or Jesus like figures through the history of the universe.

At the end of the day, I belief life has a purpose, and that we are all a a part of the spark of Creation. Or to put it this way: The matter that formed you as a living being was present at the Big Bang. So, who's to say what or who was responsible for said and what may have formed across a universe? There's infinite possiblities. And we're just here to do what we can while we're here.

[georgiamagnolia.livejournal.com]

And what about parallel universes and alternate timelines? That will make your mind boggle, 'eh?

(seriously, this is the sort of thing I wonder about when I am zenning out during work)

[fuego.livejournal.com]

you might appreciate this then...

Imagine numbers so high they dont have names...and no matter how high you count, you can always count one higher.
Where does this universe end? What shape is it? Is it spherical? What marks the boundaries? Are there walls? I kinda imagine it like on The Truman Show...after the storm, when Jim Carey's boat hits the wall and he finds the stairs. Maybe the universe doesn't have stairs and a door to exit the studio...but the universe is either infinite or it isn't, and if it isn't...well, it has to end somewhere. And what would the walls be made of? There's a thought...What contains the universe?

(it's a blurb from an entry I wrote last december)

[georgiamagnolia.livejournal.com]

That is also a boggling thought, indeed!