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Some people feel that Christians must not believe in even the possible existence of aliens, because then Christians could be deceived by entities such as Satan and other fallen-angelic beings or demons claiming to be aliens. But the existence of aliens does not require that all aliens must be good, just as the existence of angels does not require that all angels must be good. Christians would have to evaluate the goodness of any alien in the same way that Christians would have to evaluate the goodness of any angel: By the doctrine that he teaches (Galatians 1:8), by his faithfulness to God's Word the Bible (2 Timothy 4:2-4; 1 Timothy 4:1, John 8:31b, Matthew 4:4), by his obedience to YHWH God (Mark 12:29-31, Deuteronomy 6:4-5, Leviticus 19:18b). Also, the Bible does not say that Satan will appear as a good alien, but it does say that he can appear as an angel of light (2 Corinthians 11:14). So worrying about being deceived only by aliens is a dangerous distraction. Christians need to also be careful of being deceived even by angels of light.
The universe is so vast, with about 100 billion galaxies, each containing about 100 billion stars, that even if only one star out of every 10 billion stars has a planet with intelligent life on it, there would still be a trillion inhabited planets. And this would be to the great glory of God, for He is the Creator of everything that exists (Revelation 4:11). God could deal with intelligent life on other planets in the same way that He deals with people on the earth: Some individuals could go to a heaven when they die, while others could go to a hell. Or, the intelligent life on some other planets may have never fallen into sin, like Adam and Eve did, so that the intelligent life on those unfallen planets never became mortal. Any such unfallen, intelligent life could be living in sinless, immortal bliss on their planets, like Adam and Eve lived in the Garden of Eden before their fall. Also, ultimately, the destiny of Christians on the earth is not to live forever in heaven like ghosts strumming harps on clouds, but to live forever in resurrected, immortal physical bodies (1 Corinthians 15:52-53, Romans 8:23-25, Philippians 3:21, Luke 24:39) with God on a future, New Earth (Revelation 21), as in a new surface for the earth.
Some people feel that aliens cannot exist because the Bible makes no mention of them. But not everything that exists has to be mentioned in the Bible (cf. John 21:25). For example, the Bible makes no mention of Velcro, yet it exists. And the Bible makes no mention of the fact that the earth orbits the sun, and not vice versa, as many Christians mistakenly assumed for centuries. Such Christians even mistakenly claimed that the heliocentric system was a lie which was against the revealed knowledge of God in the Bible that the sun orbits the earth. Of course, the truth is that nothing in the Bible requires a geocentric system. Similarly, nothing in the Bible requires that aliens cannot exist.
Also, the argument that other inhabited planets cannot exist because if they did, the Bible would have told us about them, is like someone in the fourteenth century in Europe saying: "Other inhabited continents cannot exist besides the ones in the Bible: Europe, Africa, and Asia. For if other inhabited continents did exist, the Bible would have told us about them". Of course, the truth is that the Bible made no mention of the other inhabited continents of North America, South America, and Australia, and yet they existed. Similarly, even though the Bible makes no mention of other inhabited planets, they could exist.
If the specific aliens which some people claim to have had contact with (such as "the Greys") truly exist, they could be fallen angels or demons. Or, they could be real aliens in the sense of mortal beings from some other star-system. Or, if interstellar travel is physically impossible because of the practical limits which special relativity places on how fast matter can travel, they could be mortal beings from our own solar system who evolved (by God's created process of evolution) or were miraculously created by God long before humans, whether on this planet, or on the second or the fourth planet from the sun, during some past eon when either or both of those planets was inhabitable.
Some people feel that other inhabited planets in other star-systems cannot exist because God is only going to live with Christians on the planet earth (Revelation 21:2-3). But God can live in more than one place at a time (Psalms 139:7-10). Something similar to Revelation 21:2-3 could already be in place on billions of other inhabited planets. For just as the body of each individual Christian on the planet earth is the tabernacle/the temple of God (1 Corinthians 6:19), so each unfallen or regenerated planet elsewhere could have its own tabernacle/holy city of God. And God can reign in all of them simultaneously, just as He can reign in each Christian on the earth simultaneously (John 14:23, Ephesians 3:17).
Some people feel that fallen aliens cannot exist because the Book of Life, Hades, the lake of fire, the judgment days, and the third heaven are only for people from the planet earth. But each fallen planet elsewhere could have the equivalent of its own Book of Life, its own Hades, its own lake of fire, its own judgment for the saved only, and its own Great White Throne Judgment. Some fallen planets' judgments elsewhere could have already occurred billions of years ago, while others may not occur for billions of years after the judgments on the earth occur in our future. Also, each inhabited planet could have its own third heaven, above each planet, in a fourth spatial dimension which is "higher" than the three spatial dimensions which we can see.
Some people feel that fallen aliens cannot exist because Christ can die for sins only once (Hebrews 10:10) and only for the sins of people on the planet earth (Hebrews 2:16-17). But just as Christ incarnated as a human on the earth (John 1:1,14) and died once for the sins of humans on the earth, so He could have incarnated as other intelligent life-forms on other fallen planets elsewhere and died once for them as well. Also, the universe could be so old (some fourteen billion years, while the earth could be some 4.5 billion years old) that many fallen inhabited planets elsewhere could have already completed their regeneration through Christ billions of years ago, with their saved inhabitants having had their sins forgiven by faith in a divine sacrifice on their planet, and their bodies already having been resurrected (if dead) or changed (if alive) into immortal bodies (which Christians still await on the earth: 1 Corinthians 15:51-53), so that they became like/equal to the angels of God in heaven (cf. Matthew 22:30, Luke 20:36), so that many of the entities which we call "angels" could have started out as what we would call "aliens" on other planets.
If even some unresurrected humans on the earth can sometimes be called "angels" (in the sense of "messengers"; see Luke 7:24 in the original Greek), then some redeemed aliens on other planets who have been resurrected or changed into immortal bodies could have been assigned by God to serve as angels/messengers of God to minister to unresurrected elect people on the earth (cf. Hebrews 1:14). And once Christians on the earth have been resurrected into immortality, and become like/equal to the angels of God in heaven (Matthew 22:30, Luke 20:36), some of them could be assigned by God to other fallen planets elsewhere which have not yet been regenerated, to serve as angels/messengers of God to minister to unresurrected elect beings on those planets.
We really need to get away from every form of geocentrism. Just as it was a mistake for some Christians to refuse to accept for so long the fact that the earth is not the physical center of the universe, indeed, is not even the physical center of our solar system, so it is a mistake for some Christians to refuse to accept the very real possibility that the earth is not the spiritual center of the universe either, but could be just one of a trillion inhabited planets in the universe, all containing worshippers of God. And there could be trillions of other universes outside of our own, filled with a googolplex of inhabited planets (or other structures which we cannot even imagine). We infinitesimal humans on this one, infinitesimal planet really need to have some sense of humility (Isaiah 40:15,17, Psalms 8:3-4).
The universe is so vast, with about 100 billion galaxies, each containing about 100 billion stars, that even if only one star out of every 10 billion stars has a planet with intelligent life on it, there would still be a trillion inhabited planets. And this would be to the great glory of God, for He is the Creator of everything that exists (Revelation 4:11). God could deal with intelligent life on other planets in the same way that He deals with people on the earth: Some individuals could go to a heaven when they die, while others could go to a hell. Or, the intelligent life on some other planets may have never fallen into sin, like Adam and Eve did, so that the intelligent life on those unfallen planets never became mortal. Any such unfallen, intelligent life could be living in sinless, immortal bliss on their planets, like Adam and Eve lived in the Garden of Eden before their fall. Also, ultimately, the destiny of Christians on the earth is not to live forever in heaven like ghosts strumming harps on clouds, but to live forever in resurrected, immortal physical bodies (1 Corinthians 15:52-53, Romans 8:23-25, Philippians 3:21, Luke 24:39) with God on a future, New Earth (Revelation 21), as in a new surface for the earth.
Some people feel that aliens cannot exist because the Bible makes no mention of them. But not everything that exists has to be mentioned in the Bible (cf. John 21:25). For example, the Bible makes no mention of Velcro, yet it exists. And the Bible makes no mention of the fact that the earth orbits the sun, and not vice versa, as many Christians mistakenly assumed for centuries. Such Christians even mistakenly claimed that the heliocentric system was a lie which was against the revealed knowledge of God in the Bible that the sun orbits the earth. Of course, the truth is that nothing in the Bible requires a geocentric system. Similarly, nothing in the Bible requires that aliens cannot exist.
Also, the argument that other inhabited planets cannot exist because if they did, the Bible would have told us about them, is like someone in the fourteenth century in Europe saying: "Other inhabited continents cannot exist besides the ones in the Bible: Europe, Africa, and Asia. For if other inhabited continents did exist, the Bible would have told us about them". Of course, the truth is that the Bible made no mention of the other inhabited continents of North America, South America, and Australia, and yet they existed. Similarly, even though the Bible makes no mention of other inhabited planets, they could exist.
If the specific aliens which some people claim to have had contact with (such as "the Greys") truly exist, they could be fallen angels or demons. Or, they could be real aliens in the sense of mortal beings from some other star-system. Or, if interstellar travel is physically impossible because of the practical limits which special relativity places on how fast matter can travel, they could be mortal beings from our own solar system who evolved (by God's created process of evolution) or were miraculously created by God long before humans, whether on this planet, or on the second or the fourth planet from the sun, during some past eon when either or both of those planets was inhabitable.
Some people feel that other inhabited planets in other star-systems cannot exist because God is only going to live with Christians on the planet earth (Revelation 21:2-3). But God can live in more than one place at a time (Psalms 139:7-10). Something similar to Revelation 21:2-3 could already be in place on billions of other inhabited planets. For just as the body of each individual Christian on the planet earth is the tabernacle/the temple of God (1 Corinthians 6:19), so each unfallen or regenerated planet elsewhere could have its own tabernacle/holy city of God. And God can reign in all of them simultaneously, just as He can reign in each Christian on the earth simultaneously (John 14:23, Ephesians 3:17).
Some people feel that fallen aliens cannot exist because the Book of Life, Hades, the lake of fire, the judgment days, and the third heaven are only for people from the planet earth. But each fallen planet elsewhere could have the equivalent of its own Book of Life, its own Hades, its own lake of fire, its own judgment for the saved only, and its own Great White Throne Judgment. Some fallen planets' judgments elsewhere could have already occurred billions of years ago, while others may not occur for billions of years after the judgments on the earth occur in our future. Also, each inhabited planet could have its own third heaven, above each planet, in a fourth spatial dimension which is "higher" than the three spatial dimensions which we can see.
Some people feel that fallen aliens cannot exist because Christ can die for sins only once (Hebrews 10:10) and only for the sins of people on the planet earth (Hebrews 2:16-17). But just as Christ incarnated as a human on the earth (John 1:1,14) and died once for the sins of humans on the earth, so He could have incarnated as other intelligent life-forms on other fallen planets elsewhere and died once for them as well. Also, the universe could be so old (some fourteen billion years, while the earth could be some 4.5 billion years old) that many fallen inhabited planets elsewhere could have already completed their regeneration through Christ billions of years ago, with their saved inhabitants having had their sins forgiven by faith in a divine sacrifice on their planet, and their bodies already having been resurrected (if dead) or changed (if alive) into immortal bodies (which Christians still await on the earth: 1 Corinthians 15:51-53), so that they became like/equal to the angels of God in heaven (cf. Matthew 22:30, Luke 20:36), so that many of the entities which we call "angels" could have started out as what we would call "aliens" on other planets.
If even some unresurrected humans on the earth can sometimes be called "angels" (in the sense of "messengers"; see Luke 7:24 in the original Greek), then some redeemed aliens on other planets who have been resurrected or changed into immortal bodies could have been assigned by God to serve as angels/messengers of God to minister to unresurrected elect people on the earth (cf. Hebrews 1:14). And once Christians on the earth have been resurrected into immortality, and become like/equal to the angels of God in heaven (Matthew 22:30, Luke 20:36), some of them could be assigned by God to other fallen planets elsewhere which have not yet been regenerated, to serve as angels/messengers of God to minister to unresurrected elect beings on those planets.
We really need to get away from every form of geocentrism. Just as it was a mistake for some Christians to refuse to accept for so long the fact that the earth is not the physical center of the universe, indeed, is not even the physical center of our solar system, so it is a mistake for some Christians to refuse to accept the very real possibility that the earth is not the spiritual center of the universe either, but could be just one of a trillion inhabited planets in the universe, all containing worshippers of God. And there could be trillions of other universes outside of our own, filled with a googolplex of inhabited planets (or other structures which we cannot even imagine). We infinitesimal humans on this one, infinitesimal planet really need to have some sense of humility (Isaiah 40:15,17, Psalms 8:3-4).