Aliens & Salvation

[Admin]

Aliens & Salvation

Do you believe that aliens exist? How do UFOs fit into the Plan of Salvation?

[EAG]

if other beings do exist i suppose they would be another creation of heavenly father and would be subject to whatever covenants they had made with them.

[Pioneer]

This is something I'm not certain about.  Didn't Joseph Smith say there were people living on the moon?

[tubaloth]

if other beings do exist i suppose they would be another creation of heavenly father and would be subject to whatever covenants they had made with them.

We have to assume that others would following the same plan of salvation.  Even more we assume they would be created in the image of God (thus look the same). 

[EAG]

why would they have to fallow the same plan and look the same?

[tubaloth]

The point of having faith in our father in heaven is because
1.  He Followed a plan of salvation to some degree that allowed him to become God.  (He knows what he is doing, and thus we can turn to him for help)
2.  God knows all, and would know that there isn't a better way to save his children.  If there was a better way, then why doesn't God do it?  Or why didn't God know about it?

This means the plan of salvation that our our Heavenly Father came up with, is the same Plan of Salvation that has always been used.  You can't make it any better. 

Part of the Plan of Salvation is
1. a Spiritual Creation.  That this earth and everything on it was created spiritually.
2. Man is created in the image of God.

So the only way to ever have some strange alien race would be that at some point in time there was an Alien God.  And that Alien God created people in his image.  That goes down a path that doesn't fit. 

[Saving]

if other beings do exist i suppose they would be another creation of heavenly father and would be subject to whatever covenants they had made with them.

Not i they're animals like the animals we have on earth. Unless you're thinking they are intelligent like humans then they would have to be humans also since they would be created in the image of God.

[Superfly2028]

There are no aliens in our universe. Does God have other children, other worlds, other creations? Yes. Are they within our reach? No. That would totally confuse God´s plan. I believe it was Orson Pratt that taught that when Christ isn´t on our world during the Millenium, it´s because He´s on some other planet during their Millenium.