If space aliens prove to be real, will that impact your Christian faith?

[Ascetic X]

Meeting real aliens from outer space would strengthen my belief in God, for this vast universe could not possibly have only humans as the only intelligent life. I cannot understand only Earth would contain intelligent life, it seems like a waste of outer space, but the heavens declare the power and glory of the Creator.

Just observing earthly lifeforms increases my love for God who made so many cute, adorable, fascinating animals and insects, plus ferocious and dangerous creatures that remind me of the hazards of sin and folly. God is so artistic and wise!

Scientists and humanists will feel threatened by advanced extra-terrestrials, because they cannot tolerate the idea that there are beings who are smarter than humans.

But super smart space aliens would have zero interest in visiting boring humans. Unless we were food for them.

And maybe CS Lewis is correct.

In C.S. Lewis’s "Space Trilogy" (or Ransom Trilogy), Earth is famously depicted as Thulcandra, the "Silent Planet," which is quarantined from the rest of the solar system. This isolation is due to the "Fall" of man and the malicious influence of its corrupted evil tyrannical leader angel, the "Bent One".

Key Aspects of the Quarantined Earth:

• The Silent Planet: Earth is cut off from the interplanetary community (managed by eldila or angelic beings) because its ruler (biblically Lucifer) rebelled against God, making it a place of darkness.
• The "Bent" World: The planet Earth is considered a forbidden zone, a "dark-faced fortress" or a "quarantined leper colony".
• Cosmic Quarantine: Lewis explores the idea that immense distances in interstellar space is actually a form of divine protection—a "quarantine precaution" designed by God to prevent the spread of evil from Earth from spreading to other, unfallen, sinless planets.

 

[JonC]

It would not have an effect on my faith (it would not strengthen or weaken my faith).

 

[JonC]

I do need to read that, though. I like Lewis (just have not read his syfy works....except Narnia which would be Fantasy.

 

[Ben1445]

I was told once by someone I suspect has more experience with the subject than I, that aliens would be from another dimension. In the context of our conversation, it lined up perfectly that what I was being told is that alien activity is linked to demonic activity.

(I’m not talking about UFO’s which may be nothing more than spoofed radar or birds or chrome hub caps or anything else unidentified)

The quick link to the aliens of the other dimension was explained to me as drugs. Judging their character, I believe them.

I don’t expect to see aliens. I don’t do drugs.

But aliens don’t change who God is.

 

[Ascetic X]

UFOs, the strong delusion?

It would be easy, with current technology, to fake ETs and a flying saucer attack. Some government military fights and defeats the space aliens. Then the whole world worships and obeys that government that saved the planet from alien invaders.

2 Thessalonians 2:11-12

King James Version
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11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

 

[KenH]

There is no such thing as intelligent life forms on other planets or moons. The moon and the stars were not made for that purpose:

Genesis 1:14-19
And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:
and let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.
And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,
and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.
And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.

 

[Ascetic X]

There is no such thing as intelligent life forms on other planets or moons. The moon and the stars were not made for that purpose:

Genesis 1:14-19
And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:
and let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.
And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,
and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.
And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.

The Bible does not say there is intelligent life only on Earth. It is silent about extraterrestrials.

When I consider all the many lifeforms on Earth, it makes me wonder why such a vast universe would have intelligent life on only one planet.

What could all the galaxies exist for, including planets that scientists claim might be hospitable to life as we know it?

Genesis 1:14-19 describe only the sun and moon as lights illuminating the earth, not the stars. “He made the stars also” is all that is said about the stars.

Stars, especially all the galaxies at the edge of the known universe, are not giving light upon the earth, so they must be for some other purpose.

If I was God, I would not make such a vast universe, then put life on only one planet. Seems like a waste.

 

[kyredneck]

aliens would be from another dimension.

Considering the 'host of heaven' as spiritual beings the universe may well be teeming with life. But on the physical plane the same laws of physics apply everywhere. This is a very good pragmatic documentary on that topic:

The UFO Movie THEY Don't Want You to See​

 

[Ascetic X]

Earth scientists define life only in terms of life as they know it on Earth. There could be other, unimaginable forms of life that accommodate very different physics.

Habitable planets, or "Goldilocks" worlds, are rocky exoplanets orbiting within their star's habitable zone, where temperatures allow liquid water to exist on the surface. While Earth is the only confirmed inhabited world, scientists have identified over 45 promising candidates—such as TRAPPIST-1e, TOI-715 b, and Proxima Centauri b—that could potentially support life.

 

[KenH]

The Bible does not say there is intelligent life only on Earth. It is silent about extraterrestrials.

Hardly a reason to accept such a silly idea as extraterrestrials. I enjoyed a whole lot of the Star Trek TV series and movies, but they are merely entertainment.

When I consider all the many lifeforms on Earth, it makes me wonder why such a vast universe would have intelligent life on only one planet.

Because God created it that way based on what the Bible says.

What could all the galaxies exist for, including planets that scientists claim might be hospitable to life as we know it?

Because God created them.

Stars, especially all the galaxies at the edge of the known universe, are not giving light upon the earth, so they must be for some other purpose.

Obviously, they give out light to the earth or else we could not see them.

If I was God, I would not make such a vast universe, then put life on only one planet. Seems like a waste.

Isaiah 55:8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.

 

[Ascetic X]

Hardly a reason to accept such a silly idea as extraterrestrials. I enjoyed a whole lot of the Star Trek TV series and movies, but they are merely entertainment.

And people thought it was a “silly idea” that there existed super tiny living creatures unseeable by human eyes…until the microscope was invented.

The Bible does not say life exists only on Earth.

Science has verified many bizarre and seemingly silly ideas, including that rats laugh when tickled, and that chickens with weighted sticks attached to their tails walk like dinosaurs. Other verified, strange truths include that you can create iridescent chocolate, that bananas are slightly radioactive, and that most mammals empty their bladders in roughly 21 seconds.

If you happened to swallow a razor blade, your stomach acid would dissolve it. A laser can get trapped in water. A cloud can weigh a million pounds. Hot water freezes faster than cold water.

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[Salty]

Lets say there was intelligent life elsewhere in the universe.

What would happen to them upon their death?

Would they go to Heaven or Hell?

How would they know about Heaven - Unless Jesus also went to the planet!
IF so, would he have to had died a second time?
Or maybe Jesus had a twin brother.....

 

[Salty]

As far as intelligent life - we are still seeking it in Washington DC!

 

[rockytopva]

The Good... The Bad... The Ugly...

The Good,,,
*** The Lord Jesus Christ
*** His faithful servants
*** The Angels who kept their first estate - Jude 1:6

The Bad...
*** Jude also mentions Enoch who also told of evil angels on earth
*** Adultery and the shedding of innocent blood

The Ugly
*** Christians you can't follow
*** The flesh

We would have a hard enough time making it to Mars and back. What is there on Mars that could sustain life? How could aliens build a spacecraft that could make the journey from the outside universe to our solar system? Even if they did it would be a one in a trillion chance of them finding us in our lifetime.

Better to follow the good in which we will live and reign with that Good a thousand years. And await on his wisdom to guild us in such external wisdom. I would fear any aliens as demonic spirits as told in the book of Enoch.

... and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years. - Revelation 20:4

 

[rockytopva]

The Good... The Bad... The Ugly... If aliens evolved from their own environment what are the chances they would be good aliens and not angels intending to rid the planet earth of its inhabitants? Making a world for their own good?