Jesus, UFO’s & Aliens

My mother tells me I was present when she saw a UFO, but I was only about 3 years old and can’t recall that moment. It was in our back yard. My brother and I were playing in a sand box as my mother stood by. Suddenly my brother motioned for us to look up in the sky. My mother would later describe it as a flying saucer — a disk that was just hovering in the clear blue sky. She said it stood still for several moments, then suddenly shot straight up and disappeared!

Today the question still remains, are UFO’s from other planets, or are they just natural phenomena? What does the Bible say about UFO's and other possible intelligent life on other planets? Well, the answer is: Nothing! What it does tell us about the universe, however, is that God created it all. 

Genesis 1:1, “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth”. 

“In the beginning” means before anything existed — before matter existed — before the physical realm existed. “In the beginning” God created the “heavens” and the earth — the “heavens” meaning the universe, the sun, the planets, the solar system, including the earth. Whether there is life on other planets or not, our God is sovereign over all things in the entire universe. 

The Bible is only focused on our planet, and our species, the human race. And that Jesus, God taking the form of a human, died on the cross for our sins because the human race has been tainted by the original sin of Adam and Eve — the fall of human-kind. Jesus came to reconcile humans  — to make us right with God.

So what can we speculate about the possibility of other species, or other intelligent life, on other planets? And what would that do for our faith in Jesus, as Christians, if other intelligent life existed? The answer is that it should do nothing to diminish our faith. Jesus came to redeem those on earth.

So let’s speculate about the possibility of other intelligent life in the universe. If there is, then they were created by God. Can only speculate and their relationship with God. Did they turn away from God as well, and need a Savior? Or what if they were created and didn’t fall away from God as Adam and Eve did? That would be incredible — they would be sinless and possibly live forever, that is if we compare them to our spiritual reality as we know it. 

I was thinking — perhaps if aliens do exist, then maybe God doesn’t want us to meet. It would be too diverse spiritually, let alone perhaps physically. Could it be that the reason the universe is so expansive — so deep — is to simply keep us apart by God’s design? Maybe so.

Or maybe, we are the only ones in the entire universe just for God to show how immense His power is. 

What if there are aliens, and what if Heaven is filled with not only humans but other beings as well? Would this mean that Heaven is like some Star Wars scene? HaHa. Or will we be all the same spiritual body?

We could spend our whole life contemplating such things, but let’s get back to what’s really important as human beings on this planet earth in this solar system in this universe.

Here’s what we know as true. We, as humans, are God’s creation. Because sin entered our world, mankind is tainted by sin, which separates us from God. God, only through His grace and mercy, offered a plan to reconcile us humans back to Himself and forgive us of our sins, saving us from eternal condemnation, which is the consequence for our sins, and offer us life after death in a paradise with Him. He is calling out to us through Jesus.

God’s plan was to come to planet earth in the form of a human being, and offer Himself as the supreme sacrifice — dying as payment for our sins. Why would He do such a thing. What was the motive? Love!  

John 3:16

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

The bottom line is we need to make sure that we are right with God — that we believe in Him, are baptized into Christ, and are Christ followers as we go through this life in a loving Father/child relationship with God. As a result, we have the promise of resurrection and eternal life in Heaven.

I’m not sure if there is life somewhere else, and if so, what God’s plan is for them. But I do know God’s plan for us humans, and hopefully you do too. So let’s be thankful for it and worship and praise Him, and live a life worthy of His calling.