just reading another psot bout aliens and it got me thinking

[The Sherman]

what if aliens landed and had the same scripture as our bible?

What if they knew of Jesus christ an all and said a prophet or whatever had visited their world light years away and told them the bible story and they all believed the same as us?

Would that be enough proof for non believers?

[Davethedog]

What if they said the moon was made of cream cheese.

And the tooth fairy actualy existed.

[nix-j-c]

but if there was just a sentence different in the two bibles then people would say that its a coincidence

[The Sherman]

ok dave what if they didnt say the moon was made of cheese and all other stupid ideas but did believe in jeebus?

[jake-the-peg]

What if they read the Koran instead would that be enough proof for you?

[The Sherman]

ok jake my point is if they followed any major religion of planet earth and they had no contact with us before

would that not tell you that for them to have the same book of god that he must be real or otherwise how else could you explain it?

[rojash]

There are hypothetical questions and there are silly hypothetical questions; this is one of the latter.

You might as well ask "What if God turned up in your local and performed a few miracles? Would that be enough to convince you?" or just: "What if there was absolute proof?"

The fact is: Aliens haven't landed, God hasn't turned up in my local, and there ain't no absolute proof.

[chakka35]

Says it all, rojash.

[jake-the-peg]

Are you suggesting they spoke the same language?

There are many translations and versions!

I'm guessing that you're suggesting that it's basically the same.

Take the Story of Noah and the Great flood.

A strikingly similar story appears in babylonian myth predating the earliest bible references.

A man is warned by God to dismantle his house and build a greak boat to avoid a great flood.

How do we explian this? Do we assume that the events must be true?

No we assume that there was cultural connections between the two and the story was adapted one from the other.

In your scenario that would be the first port of call to establish where the connection was.

Exactly the same as if they turned up with the Complete works of Shakespere

[beso]

And what if they landed and told us the truth?

That the act of worship in all of its forms is an evil practice used by the wicked to hypnotise the gullible into committing atrocities.

That books purporting to document the will of God are the tools of the wicked and were written by self serving, racist, sexist biggots.

That religion stands in the way of intelligence, morality and progress. That they only succeeded when the true nature of religion was revealed to all.

[terambulan]

Aliens & an eclipse happened in Sinai 2k years ago - misconstrued by tribal arab nomads as todays faiths.

[The Sherman]

chakka rojash thank you for bleesing this stupid post with your presence but if all you can do is say how stupid it is then why waste the fugging keyboard! Not every question has to be of such importance that the mighty chakka must demonstrate his/her superior intellect.

all i said was if an alien landed and said "oh the koran! We have that book on our planet"
would that be proof to you?

[The Sherman]

also if anyone wants to theorise how it might be possible that another race believed in the same god how that might have happened would love to hear these theories!

[jake-the-peg]

Dear atheists

Please come up with a scenario that will involve you totally changing your minds and accepting my particular God.

PS please include aliens in this answer

Would that be about the size of it?

[The Sherman]

gosh i only meant this as a bit of fun!

i dont believe in god or any gods but if another alien came to earth and believed in buddha etc then it would make me reconsider my views yeah. was just wondering if anyone else felt the same as noone seems to be able to do this will remove this thread.

[WaldoMcFroog]

I think Jake's already given the logic answer. Rather than assume that the alien race's knowledge of Religion X's conferred authenticity, it would be more rational to consider whether, given they have the ability to manage interstellar travel, Religion X originated with them and was shared with us or vice versa.

[jake-the-peg]

Well maybe a better way is to ask what would make any of us reconsider our opinions?

In my humble experience bringing hypothetical aliens into any discussion about religion is always the start of a downhill slide!

You can basically propose any situation with the "yeah but what if aliens did it" line.

[biggerlonger]

They could have seen our tv, jeebus christ super star, in fact they could come down and say Jerry Springer is the lord, would that be proof for you?

[naomi24]

No one left religious scriptures with anyone. Men wrote them all.

Sherman, we had another discussion here once about this, and wondered whether Jesus, in a universal(?) effort to save sins, had been crucified over and over again on various planets. Bearing in mind the religious among us think they're pretty unique in being the only ones who know 'the truth', it's an interesting thought. Oh boy, wouldn't they be in for a surprise!

I think God was an alien anyway - but that's another story. :o)

[beso]

No we are all aliens. We used to be Gods but the Mighty One took away part of our genome, threw us in a volcano on Earth and we came out like this.

All we have to do is give lots of money to the Scientologists and we will get out God powers back. Ron L Hubbard said it so it must be true.