UFO Believers Thrilled By Vaticans Blessing

http://www.libertyforum.org/showflat.
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"We are always trying to restrict God's creativity, putting theological difficulties in the way. But I don't think God bothers with theological difficulties."

Human beings, on the other hand, have a tendency to be a bit literal when interpreting the teachings of their faiths. Proof of that can be found in the Puritanical pudding at the Salem witch trials in 1692, not to mention countless history books or even today's headlines. Many a faithful soul today would be aghast at talk of UFOs and other forms of intelligent life.

"Any kind of literalist in Christianity would be barring these sorts of beliefs," said Thomas O'Brien, a professor of religious studies at DePaul University. "If you were to go to some fundamentalist Christian churches, you'd hear some pastors say belief in UFOs is tantamount to a non-belief in Jesus Christ."

Such pooh-poohing of cosmic possibilities runs quite counter to last week's comments from the Vatican Observatory. Funes said that to not believe life exists beyond our planet would be to "set limits on the creative liberty of God."

And God, most believers would agree, is not someone you want to mess with. As the Rev. Thomas O'Meara, a visiting theology professor at Boston College, put it: "If you have a mature view of God, God can do what God wants."

So what's next? A canonical embrace of ghosts, psychic powers, fairies and, perhaps, the Easter Bunny?

Turns out that's not necessary.

"There are no problems with ghosts and the paranormal because a lot of the personages that populate the cosmic world of Catholicism are precisely those kinds of figures," said O'Brien, the DePaul professor. "So there's nothing against that kind of belief."
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If God exists and if God is infinite then he or she or it is infinitely
creative and time or space or being are no barrier to what God can do!

Religions are penned in books by men and women beings in finite mortal bodies that do not have the capacity to think infinitely. So how can any man or woman perceive God but in a limited way that cannot possibly do justice to God?

If we are to honor God we must try to reach the infinite capacity that God has in our hearts because human mind is not capable of this alone!

One of the paths is to learn to experience no limitations through meditation. My meditation has been soul travel to inner and outer space. It is possible for me because I have consciously done this since my 20s. However, as a meditation thinking expansively with compassion liberates the mind and soul to care more and to understand more. To limit what God can do in your mind mostly limits you. In setting God free in your mind you set yourself, your family and all your friends free too!