Regarding Aliens:
I’m going to start this out with a scolding because many who have commented here make statements suggesting that they know God. It bothers me because … if you know him, why haven’t you just asked him? He still talks, ya know.
It’s especially irksome when someone claims to have “a personal relationship with Jesus Christ” and yet has never heard his voice. Worse yet is when someone subverts his word by claiming personal reasoning to be the voice of God. Kinda torks me off when they belittle the true and living God like that. He SPEAKS. Seek him until he speaks to YOU. **Rant complete**
Ok...With that being said, I’ll share what God showed me when I asked him whether there are aliens or not, beginning with why I was asking.
BTW, Kudos to OneFaith who answered the question explaining briefly one reason why it had to be the correct answer. I will share another reason.
I was talking to the ‘head pastor’ of our church at the time, and someone walked up asking “Are there [space] aliens?”
At first I thought it to be a foolish question and wondered why he was bothering him with it. Then I realized it was very wise to ask rather than just continue wondering, so I started listening for the answer. The pastor said “I don’t really know. There is one scripture [John 10:16] where Jesus said he had sheep of another fold, but whether that only means the gentiles, or includes others [including space aliens] as well, I really just don’t know.”
Well, I was looking for an opportunity to learn something that particular ‘head pastor’ didn’t already know. So, now that I saw an opportunity, I took that topic to prayer, asking God to reveal it to me. ( NOTE: For those who will jump all over that piece of honesty saying I had bad motives and all that… I really don’t care what you think. Sometimes the proof is in the pudding, and if God was willing to answer me, it doesn’t really matter much what you think, now does it? God says “Ask and ye shall receive”, and that’s what I did. It just took a few weeks of seeking his face.)
I started by asking if there was life on other planets. God asked me if I meant microbial life. I said “No, something like us. [Humans]”. He said “Do you mean that they look like you?” I said, “No. I don’t care what they look like. I don’t care if they look like soup. I mean beings that are LIKE US [meaning who we are on the inside, as beings].”
Then He showed me that those two words are the key…”LIKE US” [mankind].
He showed me that man measures things in terms of intellect or intelligence. And in those the angels are not only as intelligent as us, they surpass us The devil himself is declared a master deceiver. But God doesn’t measure/separate things by intelligence.
In the spiritual realm there is a more important measurement that divides things. SIN. (you may want to stop and think about that for a while). So, in the heavens there are only 2 types of entities. Those that have sinned...and those that have NEVER sinned.
Angels that sinned are now known as, and forever will remain as, devils. Angels that have never sinned remain just that...angels (sinless beings).
So which are we more like by that measurement? Angels (that have never sinned)...or Devils (that have sinned)? Well, by that measurement we are more like the devils because we HAVE sinned.
BUT, there is something that separates us from the devils... God loves US [mankind] so much that he was moved to provide a redemption from sin. That is something not available to the devils. That is what makes us different from the devils.
SO….
For ANY alien race to be LIKE US...they would need to have sinned...and God would need to love them so greatly that he would be obligated to likewise make a way for their redemption.
We know that our redemption required a sacrifice, right? Well it couldn’t be just any sacrifice.. A bull or goat was not a worthy sacrifice for a human. Only one creature could be an acceptable sacrifice for Mankind...and that is.a MAN...and a sinless man at that.
Not finding a sinless man among us, God had to send his word Jesus (which is called Christ) who also is Emmanuel...or “God with US”... to be made flesh [human] and die for us. (in this case “US” is meaning humans).
Well, that same rule would apply to any alien species. The only sacrifice that would make the atonement for them would be a sinless one of their own. So God would have to send his word Jesus to be made flesh [in the alien race] to die for them as one of their own. <--and THAT is impossible because of the fact that he will only offer ONE sacrifice for sins...as stated in the following verses:
Romans_6:10 For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.
Hebrews_10:10 By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
Hebrews_10:12 But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;
1 Peter_3:18 For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
Any second sacrifice would make TWICE, not once...making those verses a lie.
Therefore it is a biblical impossibility for there to be aliens that are “like us”.
Love in Jesus,
Kelby