Rogan and Trump talk about aliens for four minutes
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Oh, you're protestant I get it. You mentioning purgatory threw me off. The apostolic Church established by Christ to preserve and spread the word of God which is the only path to salvation - there is no other Church.
It is speculated John wrote Revelation around 90AD. It was the Church that centuries later compiled the Bible and decided John's gospel to be within the Christian tradition.
Those are not my ideas, I'm not a gnostic possessing some secret knowledge. I'm relating the teachings of the Church fathers who kept the tradition and knowledge that was revealed to us by God.
Exactly. How do you have knowledge of anything that doesn't apply to humans? I can imagine a lot of things that most likely are not real. This is exactly what the atheists argue with the stupid Flying spaghetti monster (which is based on Bertrand Russel's teapot) - we don't know that such a thing doesn't exist somewhere in the universe with certainty, yet with no proof there's no reason to believe in it.
No, I'm not Protestant.
Since we are on the same page, so to speak, as non-Protestants, there is no authoritative (Catholic) church teaching on extra-terrestrial life, or interdimensional life.
Sure, there is no explicit teaching on darwinism too but such propositions have entailments that contradict the Church teachings. ETs make sense in Christianity as being angels/demons only.
Depends on what aspects of darwinism you're using. God most certainly could have used evolution as the means to create the first fully human beings of Adam and Eve.
As for the alien demon hypothesis, I am going to outsource this to Jimmy Akin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LDj2By1JLM
No, because evolution as we understand it presupposes death before the fall. This has been condemned by the ecumenical councils. They also condemned all metaphorical interpretations of the creation story in Genesis and one can't read a natural determined process like evolution in it if the story is taken literally. Also, what did man evolve from? Did he possess the image and likeness of God in those previous stages and if he did, why did he have to continue evolving? When did that qualitative transition during that process occur (when did man acquire free will)?
I'll check it. Here's where I got my understanding on aliens: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxcyYUzYFEE