Christians generally have little difficulty believing that God could create intelligent beings elsewhere. The more difficult question is what relationship such beings would have to sin, salvation, and the work of Jesus.
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Faith, Aliens, and God, Part 2: Early Christians, C.S. Lewis, and the Possibility of Other Worlds
It is easy to assume that discussions about extraterrestrial life belong entirely to the modern era. It’s no wonder people are often surprised to learn that Christians have been seriously thinking about these questions far longer than most of us realize. Long before telescopes, space exploration, and modern science fiction, Christian thinkers were already wrestling with the possibility that God’s creative activity might extend beyond the world we know.
Faith, Aliens, and God, Part 1: Why Christians Don’t Need to Fear a Bigger Universe
Often, when people imagine the possibility of intelligent life elsewhere, they assume that a larger universe somehow creates a smaller God. But the Bible consistently points us in the opposite direction.
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