Jesus, UFO’s & Aliens

My mother tells me I was there when she saw the 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. My brother saw it first and motioned for us to look up in the sky. My mother  described 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? What does the Bible say about UFO's and other possible intelligent life elsewhere in the universe? 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” (the universe) and the earth. Whether there is life on other planets or not, our God is sovereign over all things in the entire universe. The Bible, however, is only focused on our planet, and our species, the human race. 

If other intelligent life existed, what would that do for our faith in Jesus, as Christians? The answer is that it should do nothing to diminish our faith. Jesus came to redeem those on earth.

But if there is intelligent life elsewhere, then it was also created by our God. Did they fall away in sin like us and need a Savior? Or were they sinless and possibly live forever? This can be mind boggling!

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?

Or could it be that there is no other intelligent life, and the reason the universe is so large is just for God to show how immense His creative power is?

But if there are aliens, is Heaven is filled with not only humans, but other beings as well? Could Heaven be like some Star Wars scene? Or will we all simply have 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, and where our focus needs to be. 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 that plan is through Jesus, dying on the cross for the forgiveness of our sins, saving us from eternal condemnation, which is the consequence for our sins, and offering us eternal life after death in a paradise with Him. 

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. 

And as far as the possibility of other intelligent life......... only God knows!