Let me clarify...Of course God looks like us in that Jesus is God: fully
man, fully devine. That is the Trinity. God the Father is spirit as is Holy
Spirit. God is our Creator. He is a personal
supremely intelligent Creator. It is Holy Spirit that is within us when we
accept Him and believe. Holy Spirit is a God-form, but Jesus had to ascend
first, remember Jesus told the disciples that he must first leave before Holy
Spirit could come and work within us. We must ask and receive Holy Spirit
through baptism: not water baptism, that is the cleansing and repentance part;
but through acknowledgement. That is the acceptance part.
There are those who do not know or believe in the truth of God which
includes His one and only Son, Jesus and those will not inherit the kingdom.
God tells us this quite plainly in His Word. We are not God and God is not us.
God is not in everything, this is pantheism. God is apart from us, He is Holy.
God is to be worshipped and glorified. It is therefore the greatest possibility
and it is most likely that we are special creatures to God and no others exist
anywhere else in the universe.
The enormousness of the universe has nothing to do with God being powerful
and creative as God has no limit as to time or dimension, and therefore, I do
not see it as narrow or self-serving to believe that we are the only planet with
human beings created in the image of God, after all almost 108 billion people
have lived on this earth. The Bible does not in any manner suggest that there is
life outside of this planet and I for one am not going to add to the Bible by
suggesting there is. It would not change by either deterring or adding to my
belief in God and specifically it would detract from many peoples belief in the
saving grace of Jesus. To suggest that other self-willed creatures in God’s
image live elsewhere is to know that they sinned as well, for self-will requires
choice and choice by definition requires at least two sides and that means
disagreement and disobedience. Therefore if sin is part of all self-will
creatures created in the image of God then they too would need the atoning grace
of Jesus. Since Jesus was born of the virgin Mary, there would have to be
another Jesus, not just the one, because there is only one Mary, mother of
Jesus. So you see what a tangled mess our beliefs can lead to if we are not
very careful in being truth seekers. The Mormons, an entire cult, began with
the false truths of one man as did the Muslims. The Mormons believe that a man
dies and goes to his own planet kingdom and that each man becomes a god of his
own planet and he can then have spirit children who can come to earth and repeat
the cycle. An earthlike planet is a far cry from Earth.
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