Come to think of it, that might be a thread worth starting… paranormal, weird, unexplained sort of stuff, like monsters (i.e. cryptozoology), ghosts (but not the Ghostbusters ), aliens (i.e. UFOs), strange occurrences (like teleporting cats ), etc.
Since I was a kid I’ve always been fascinated with this sort of thing (especially monsters, like Bigfoot, sea serpents, giant birds, and the like), though I’m not sure about you guys… I’m not crazy.
But hey, I mean, most of us may just ignore these things, and don’t give much credence to any of it… but think about it… if sincere and sane people claim to have experienced, say, miracles in their lives, wouldn’t we as believers be open to accepting those claims? I doubt that many of us would question those claims, as long as they were made by people we found to be trustworthy and if the nature of those miracles was in line with the loving God that we believe in…
But wouldn’t it only be fair that if there were sincere and sane people who have claimed experiences with strange creatures, or ghosts, or aliens, or the like, that we should at least try to have an open mind?
Granted, even if we consider those people trustworthy, some of those experiences that are claimed, if we took them seriously, may put into question our view of God and of His creation, but hey, we all know that we can be wrong about some things, and that likely there is more that we don’t know then what we do know…
Granted, some of those things could just be hoaxes, some of them hallucinations, some of them misidentification, or it could well be that some of these things could be accounted for by ‘demonic’ activity, but maybe not all… perhaps there’s more going on than we may realize?
Maybe there are strange and unexpected creatures which God created that haven’t been discovered yet? Or perhaps some that we thought extinct, like dinosaurs, that are still around in some places? Ya never know.
Maybe there is some kind of intermediary state where ‘ghosts’ roam, or maybe there is some such thing as ‘psychic’ energy? Who knows?
Or maybe God did create other lifeforms on other worlds, even intelligent ones? It could be, for all we know.
Now, I’m not saying that these kinds of things definitely exist for sure, but there are sincere and sane people who have claimed to have encountered these kinds of things, who are just as sincere and sane as those who claim to have experienced miracles in their lives… and there is just as much evidence, or at least anecdotal evidence, to support such things as there is to support miracles, so I guess what I’m trying to say is maybe we should keep an open mind.
And if such things were a reality, if we were open to that possibility, then how would that effect our view of God, creation, life, etc?
Any thoughts on this? And do you guys think it would be a worthy thread? If so, I can copy and paste some of what I’ve said here to a new post and get this conversation started.
Blessings to you all