Extraterrestrials UFOs=Demons?

[barnhart]

Chesterton said something like "the problem with atheism is not that people will believe nothing but rather that they will believe anything."

[ken_sylvania]

To put it bluntly, l will believe in UFOs and extraterrestrials when I see them with my own eyes.

Great. Another moon landing denier....

[JohnL]

Social media is still whining on about UFOs and demons. I thought it would disappear with the next big story but it looks like it’s now a part of a campaign for a new Spielberg movie. Hollywood is getting desperate.
I don’t really know if UFOs and aliens are demons or not. On the other side of that argument they might be angels too.
What about 2Kings 2 when Elijah was taken up?

11 Then it happened, as they continued on and talked, that suddenly a chariot of fire appeared with horses of fire, and separated the two of them; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.

[joshuabgood]

To put it bluntly, l will believe in UFOs and extraterrestrials when I see them with my own eyes.

Great. Another moon landing denier....

Believing in "little green men" isn't in the same category as knowing about the moon landing.

[Swiss Brah]

It does seem angels pre date the creation of our world.

The Hebrew term in Job 38:7 is not actually “angels.”

Mal’akh (מַלְאָךְ) = messenger, angel
Bene Elohim (בְּנֵי אֱלֹהִים) = sons of God, heavenly beings

In Job 38:7, the beings who rejoice at creation are called bene elohim, not mal’akhim.

I suspect that an angel (mal’akh) is a heavenly being acting in the role of a messenger, rather than a separate kind of being. But I’m not certain the biblical texts are systematic enough to make that distinction with confidence.

In general, many modern ideas about angels and demons come from later Jewish, Christian, and medieval traditions, which developed elaborate hierarchies and mythologies that go well beyond what the Bible itself explicitly says.

Spot on, angel / malakh is a job description. It is used in the Bible for both human and heavenly messengers.

[JohnH]

Social media is still whining on about UFOs and demons.

Perhaps those of us who want to use social media could simply check it out ourselves; the rest of us don't need reports of what "social media" is doing, or at least we don't in a General Theology forum.

[JimFoxvog]

It’s interesting how sinful man doesn’t or won’t believe in God… yet can believe in “aliens” and UFOs which no one has seen.

Plenty of people have seen UFOs; polls show about 17% of the population. That, of course, does not prove that aliens are involved. A fair number have claimed to have seen aliens. If they all are hallucinations, delusions, or lies, I don't know. There is a fair chance that what was seen is sometimes the manifestation of demons. I think that more likely than physical extraterrestrial beings.

[JohnH]

It’s interesting how sinful man doesn’t or won’t believe in God… yet can believe in “aliens” and UFOs which no one has seen.

Plenty of people have seen UFOs; polls show about 17% of the population. That, of course, does not prove that aliens are involved. A fair number have claimed to have seen aliens. If they all are hallucinations, delusions, or lies, I don't know. There is a fair chance that what was seen is sometimes the manifestation of demons. I think that more likely than physical extraterrestrial beings.

What is odd is these sightings are only in the west. Apparently the third world can’t see these UFOs.

Even odder, we have fewer sightings of UFOs now when everyone carries around a camera on their pocket.

https://www.arcgis.com/apps/mapviewer/i ... 8cb2792df7

[Anthony]

It’s interesting how sinful man doesn’t or won’t believe in God… yet can believe in “aliens” and UFOs which no one has seen.

Plenty of people have seen UFOs; polls show about 17% of the population. That, of course, does not prove that aliens are involved. A fair number have claimed to have seen aliens. If they all are hallucinations, delusions, or lies, I don't know. There is a fair chance that what was seen is sometimes the manifestation of demons. I think that more likely than physical extraterrestrial beings.

What is odd is these sightings are only in the west. Apparently the third world can’t see these UFOs.

Even odder, we have fewer sightings of UFOs now when everyone carries around a camera on their pocket.

https://www.arcgis.com/apps/mapviewer/i ... 8cb2792df7

Yes to both, UFOs mainly visit the US and we have little phone footage of them.