You know, I knew when I posted that that it would start something. It was never my intention to take away from the thread.
I do believe in God, and I do believe that we are arrogant to think that we are the only ones here. I believe that God loves so much that He very well might have created other races on other planets. Not all believers hold my view.
For me I find there is far more proof for the existence of a living God. I have seen evidence in other people's lives, heard testimonies of how God has worked in other peoples lives, and have experienced it first hand.
God to me is not some idea. To me God is a person, a person who loved the world so much that He sent His only Son Jesus to die on the cross for us, to atone for the sins of man. The penalty for sin is death (both spiritual and physical) and by dying on the cross He has given us the opportunity to have life and life more abundantly.
We have all these crazy ideas of who God is, and for some reason we can't except God but can except other things we can't see. Yes, if the Bible had not been ridden there would still be proof of God. For me it is in the stars at night, at the beauty in His creation. I know those views are not popular here and are laughed at, and I have never said anything in the past. But this is what I know as Truth, that there is a God full of grace and mercy who reached down to love mankind.
Aliens may be real, I myself have seen strange things. One day I was hiking with a friend and we looked up at the sky. It was a cloudless day, except for one very small whispy cloud. There was a light, just like a sat. It keep moving from right to left, and then disappeared in the cloud. It is strange, how do you explain that? A sat would have kept going.
We as humans quite often become arrogant and think that we know everything, that we understand how everything is done in this world. I think that the reality is that none of us really knows exactly how life formed here, or how it can form in other places. None of us were there.
I apologize to the OP for derailing the thread, that wasn't my intention, but frankly I think that it is a valid question. How can one believe in an alien that you have never seen or that there is no hard proof of, and yet deny a God who has had many eye witnesses for thousands of years, including the Bible. You don't have to believe the Bible, but it is a testimony of who God is.
In the end we all have to be willing to forgo our own understanding and except the fact that we don't know everything. I know I don't.
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