Would a billion year old E.T. civilization be indistinguishable from God?

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With godlike powers developed by an E.T. race over a period of a billion or so years, how could we, as human beings, see any difference between them and God?
I bring your attention to the Old Testament of the Bible: when the Hebrews are wandering around for 40 years after leaving Egypt and slavery behind them, the Bible says they were guided a cloud by day and a pillow of fire by night. Could the cloud and the pillow of fire be an E.T. flying machine of some kind?
 
Because we've never thought about them in that way. God isn't about being able to levitate things, or make it rain, or even planting voices inside people's heads. It's about faith, getting strength, and being thankful for what you have and what gave it to you.
Without faith, God is nothing, and since there is no faith dedicated to these creatures, then they cannot be thought of as anything like God. However, I suspect that if such a race did make contact with us, a cult or even a religious following would almost instantly start up. So to people who want quick fixes, and magic solutions to their problems, these aliens would be the only gods they needed. But for actual spiritual and emotional wealth that comes from what most people would call "real religions", there is no substitute for the real thing.
 
Well, God is holy and loving.

Extra-terrestrials may not even have god-like abilities. Does anyone have proof they exist?
 
an intelligent species that has evolved that far could possibly have the ability to create a universe on a full scale.
They may have conquered time travel, the awareness of relevant dimensions, and altering eternal properties on a level which best suits practicality to their relevant awareness.

Even if this was the case, I believe they would still be inadequate at being more than a pale reflection on a Deity...
 
God (In the catholic sense) is omnicent, eternal, monotheistic, and above human or animal throught.

Seeing that his exsistence could not be proven I assume we are comparing two imginary concepts.

So an E.T. would be non-eternal, not omnicent, and above (or below) human and animal thought. All seeing that you mention a civilization compared to a single being it would also be different in that aspect. You are speculating any knowable things because they have been lost in truthlessness. Drop this pointless batter.
 
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