My 10 year old has been dealing with anti mormons online saying we believe God is an Alien. I've never heard this before. Is this the same idea as us being "athiest"?

@IllariaDiMar He does live on a planet on a different solar system near the star Kolob. Sounds alien

@stackerco @IllariaDiMar Technically, God would be an alien in most Christian religions considering that God originates and dwells outside of our world/reality

@GELemus13 @stackerco @IllariaDiMar No he wouldn’t. God is ipsum esse subsistens. Not a created being living on a different planet with a physical body.

@augustinepatch @stackerco @IllariaDiMar But he doesn’t live here either, so not living here or in a different reality would make him an alien

@GELemus13 @stackerco @IllariaDiMar What? He lives here, He is everywhere. Everything that exists exists because God wills their existence. They exist in and because of God.

@augustinepatch @stackerco @IllariaDiMar Ok. Let’s take your argument at face value. You believe God exists. If He created the universe and everything within it, then He exists outside the created order. A being outside the universe would, by definition, be alien to it. In that sense, God is an alien

@GELemus13 @stackerco @IllariaDiMar No, an alien is a created being that has a physical body and resides in an actual location. God is existence itself.

@augustinepatch @stackerco @IllariaDiMar Your argument centers on classical theism, where God is “Being itself.” Fair enough. But most people here are discussing God as a distinct being. If God is distinct from the created order, then “alien” simply means foreign to our reality/world, not necessarily a sci-fi creature

@GELemus13 @stackerco @IllariaDiMar No, most people here aren’t doing what you said. You said “most Christians would think this” when most Christians would think what I said. Seeing as how it’s only Mormons who think God the Father has a body and lives in a physical planet.