Comments on: Likeness and other worlds https://www.ourthoughts.ca/2005/11/27/likeness-and-other-worlds/ Thought-provoking commentary on life, politics, religion and social issues. Tue, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Geoff J https://www.ourthoughts.ca/2005/11/27/likeness-and-other-worlds/comment-page-1/#comment-1950 Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.ourthoughts.ca/?p=297#comment-1950 FYI – I did a little series on this subject a few monthsback too… My suspicion is that each planet probably generally mirrors ours.

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By: Mary Siever https://www.ourthoughts.ca/2005/11/27/likeness-and-other-worlds/comment-page-1/#comment-1951 Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.ourthoughts.ca/?p=297#comment-1951 oh i will name him. he did the same thing to me, i was totally oblivious and the children were watching it with me too and were terrified OF COURSE. nasty trick, huh???

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By: Mary Siever https://www.ourthoughts.ca/2005/11/27/likeness-and-other-worlds/comment-page-1/#comment-1952 Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.ourthoughts.ca/?p=297#comment-1952 oops, didn’t name him. Kim.

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By: ltbugaf https://www.ourthoughts.ca/2005/11/27/likeness-and-other-worlds/comment-page-1/#comment-1953 Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.ourthoughts.ca/?p=297#comment-1953 I join apostles in speculating that God has peopled and will people other worlds with his own spirit children. I presume they, too, are made in God’s image.

But of course, I don’t exactly know what a “spirit child” is or what is the process of begetting one. I don’t know what the outer limits are of “the image of God.” Obviously our bodies are quite different, in their current state, from the glorious and eternal body of our Father in heaven. Likewise, our own bodies vary greatly from one another. So how different could the bodies of some other group of God’s children be from our own? If you know someone who knows the answers to these questions, tell me. I don’t.

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By: A https://www.ourthoughts.ca/2005/11/27/likeness-and-other-worlds/comment-page-1/#comment-1954 Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.ourthoughts.ca/?p=297#comment-1954 I’ve always believed that this means all people everywhere are human. That doesn’t explain the large numbers of people who report being visited by aliens, though.

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By: Kim Siever https://www.ourthoughts.ca/2005/11/27/likeness-and-other-worlds/comment-page-1/#comment-1955 Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.ourthoughts.ca/?p=297#comment-1955 Do we know that life on other planets was created int he image of God? We know Adam and Eve were based on the Genesis account. However, what does the phrase even mean, if applied to all humans?

After all, there are different shades of colour in skin and hair, so God did not use his hair and skin colour when creating us. I am also doubtful or gender is in his likeness since it is doubtful he is two genders.

There enough similarities (two eyes, one nose, two arms, etc) amongst most humans to deduce that God’s image is based on these features. If that is the case, it is completely feasible that an extra-terrestrial being could have the same general features (two eye, one nose, two arms, etc) and yet not look human. Look at other earth primates as an example.

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By: ltbugaf https://www.ourthoughts.ca/2005/11/27/likeness-and-other-worlds/comment-page-1/#comment-1956 Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.ourthoughts.ca/?p=297#comment-1956 “Do we know that life on other planets was created int he image of God? “

Obviously, no. In fact, this question skips a step. We don’t even know that there is life on other planets. As I said before, it’s speculation.

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By: rick https://www.ourthoughts.ca/2005/11/27/likeness-and-other-worlds/comment-page-1/#comment-1957 Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.ourthoughts.ca/?p=297#comment-1957 “In His likeness”

It’s awfully vague.
I mean we could speculate that this just means carbon-based life.

Who knows to what extent life can exist?

Another property to consider is if you believe that God was once as we are, and that God made up the rules for this world – it does not necessarily mean that the God that created God decided that the occupants of His world would be created in His image.

For all we know, God^2 (that would be the God of our God) didn’t even have a body at all.

Ah, speculation. The lifeblood of the bored and/or insane.

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By: Ian https://www.ourthoughts.ca/2005/11/27/likeness-and-other-worlds/comment-page-1/#comment-1958 Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.ourthoughts.ca/?p=297#comment-1958 D&C 76: 24
24 That by him, and through him, and of him, the worlds are and were created, and the inhabitants thereof are begotten sons and daughters unto God.

I beleive that we do know they are inhabited, at least that’s what this scripture tells me anyway. Moses 1:35 implies that the other worlds are inhabited as well.

I don’t see why those on those other planets would look all that much different from us. We know that there are laws that God must follow as well, or he would cease to be God right? I would speculate that one of those would be that his offspring would need to be in his image.

“I am also doubtful or gender is in his likeness since it is doubtful he is two genders.”

Well, what about our Heavenly Mother, don’t you think they got a few of her features. :-)

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By: Kim Siever https://www.ourthoughts.ca/2005/11/27/likeness-and-other-worlds/comment-page-1/#comment-1959 Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.ourthoughts.ca/?p=297#comment-1959 Perhaps, but the scriptures do not say that Adam and Eve were created in her image.

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