Honest question: What does your religion tell you to do, if we were visited by an Alien race?

You have asked for the institutional answer and not my personal belief.

As I do not buy into any of the established religions, and yet consider my self to be a Christian with my beliefs from the Bible and not from any organization of men, I am giving very strong consideration to forming a non denominational Bible study group searching for the true gifts from our Lord, as such, I must give you my personal opinion on your question.

I refuse to believe that God would have created us and everything else, given us the Bible, and told us of how we matter to him, without telling us of his other children.

If Aliens appeared to us, I would have to reconsider his existence as he has created everything and everyone in existence.

As important as we are to him, if he created other children I believe we would know this.

So either they don't exist and He is the true Lord and creator of all, or they do exist and if their beliefs are fundamentally different from ours but they are more advanced than us, then His existence needs to be examined.

I prefer to believe in God unless they show up.

My "religion" tells me to love the Lord, my God, with all my heart, soul and mind, and my neighbor as myself.

There is nothing in the Bible that I know of that would preclude creation on other planets, since all the other planets are also part of creation. God is Sovereign and can do as He pleases.

C.S. Lewis addresses this very question quite well in his essay, "Religion and Rocketry" contained in the collection entitled, "The World's Last Night and Other Essays." In this, he says, "Christians and their opponents again and again expect that some new discovery will either turn matters of faith into matters of knowledge or else reduce them to patent absurdities. But it has never happened."

What if, just saying, what if a man comes to me from another city and declares there is no God? Shall I believe him just because he is not from my city?

What if, just saying, what if an alien being arrives and declares to us all, "There is a God and the Christians on earth have had it right all along!"

Would such a revelation upset the deeply ingrained faith of the atheist?

I guess I am exempt from this question. I`m an atheist. Aliens visiting from distant galaxies would only confirm what I already believe; that there IS intelligent life out there.

Regarding the aliens, my guess is that if they are able to cross the infinite void of space from distant galaxies they would probably have the ability to bend space and time (the speed of light is incredibly slow when compared to the colossal emptiness of space) This is in itself a "god like" quality. Their technology would only bewilder us....

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

Arthur C. Clarke, "Profiles of The Future", 1961 (Clarke's third law)

If they have this ability, the ability to travel to any corner of the Universe, I`m sure they would have figured out long ago, just as we are catching on now, that there probably is no god.

Being an agnostic I would be inclined to treat it the same way as I do earth board religious beliefs. This is that I do believe that there are higher powers at work, but I do not accept the idea of one potential god as being any more or less relevant than any other. So I would listen honestly, I would show deference and respect for their beliefs, but I would not allow myself to be constrained by the tenets of their faith. Nor would I pray to their god above all others. There would not be any crises of faith or required reconciliation on my part as I do not have preconceived notions on the matter which would stand in opposition.

Just an aside --

The Catholic Church has been grappling with this issue and this quote may provide some insight on how they will deal with the discovery of intelligent alien life.

" Just as there is a multiplicity of creatures over the earth, so there could be other beings, even intelligent (beings), created by God. This is not in contradiction with our faith, because we cannot establish limits to God's creative freedom. To say it with St. Francis, if we can consider some earthly creatures as 'brothers' or 'sisters', why could we not speak of a 'brother alien'? He would also belong to the creation."

Director of the Vatican's Observatory and Astronomer to the Pope, Fr. José Gabriel Funes

I am a very reformed enlightened Jew and I personally would want a brand new and fresh perspective on the religion of any race of beings. I would honestly put my values on hold and try to understand the unique perspective of the new custom for what it is, in a vacuum.

In other words, make believe everything I know doesn't exist and start over, clean and new, and let these people speak, let them share with ME!

Then I will re-evaluate what I know, but I have no fixed custom set in stone. I love everyone for existing and I want everyone to get along. I think the process of what happens to you when you die cannot be dictated, it should be open to pure individual imagination.

i honestly do not find anywhere in the bible that there is not life on other planets. I certainly believe that there is such life out in the universe.

As far as a different religion, I would have to test them per 1 John 4 and Galatians as to whether or not I believe them. There are 'ministering spirits' that could spread a different gospel and many have already visited some religions--and nobody bother to fully test them so this is the reasoning behind the many religions.

Love Thy Neighbor

1> That there is only one God, and they need to worship that one God and all other "god's" are false.

2> No doubts what so ever, but being that I'm always curious I'd want to know more about the religion... not necessarily to follow it, but just to learn more about the different customs/religions.

3> I would just learn the language and see how they correlate with my religion.

well this is my answer

1- according to quran our prophet(saw) is a blessing to ALL worlds so this makes us think a little that is there life beyond this planet cuz he is a blessing for ALL the worlds.

so if aliens will come we are suppose to treat them with kindness in the best way we can. although we would have a problem in speaking cuz i dont know alien language. but we will figure some thing out.

2- nope all the doubts i would have about my religion are done with me. my religion is challenged. and won every of the challenge. it is not proved wrong its scripture is not proved wrong. i did had a doubts about it but now i am crystal clear about it.

3- i will have to learn alien that is all. what do aliens have to do with my believes. of course i would have a problem if people will start thinking of doing romance with aliens (like i have seen in some creepy animations) who know people start to think like that if they come. people already accepted prostitutes homos and sluts and running around naked and always staying half naked. now i wont be surprised of anything.

bro islam is a open religion is you learn about it. it is all media that is making people hate it.