Serge M Botans

UFO's - 7+ Concerns I Have About Extra-Terrestrials As A Christian.



Posted: Thursday, April 15, 2010

by Serge M Botans
Cattle Ramp Services

Being a Christian who believes what Genesis teaches, ie. God created the Universe, God created men and women in His image, humanity is sinful from birth due to Adam and Eves disobedience, and so on... I have some concerns/thoughts about extra-terrestrials, if indeed they exist. I will assume in this article, for the sake of implicity, that there is only one type of extra-terrestrial ie. they live on the one planet as we do in a galaxy far far away.

1. Were they created in Gods image too ie. do they have feelings, are they creative, do they have free will, are they self-aware, and so on...?

2. Were they issued a similar directive as the one God gave Adam and Eve ie. dont eat from the tree of knowledge?

3. If they were, did they also sin by disobeying the directive as Adam and Eve did?

4. If they did sin, did Jesus Christ die for their sins too?

5. If Jesus did die for them too, how does that work? Is the sacrifice of Christ on Earth applicable to them even though they might live in a galaxy far far away?

5. If the sacrifice of Christ on Earth applies to them, then how do then know about it to the extent that we do, short of a prophet saying something like " Gods son has died for your sins in a galaxy far far away " ?

6. If the sacrifice of Christ on Earth does not apply to them, did Christ then become one of them too and live among them and die for them too on their own planet? Or is there no forgiveness for their sins (assuming that they are sinful creatures as we are), and Heaven then is not a place they will go to when they die ... assuming that they die!

7. If God did not give them a directive which they disobeyed, then they are not sinful creatures. Are they then affected by Gods curse which He issued following Adam and Eves disobedience?

The problem is of course compounded if we consider not just one type of extra-terrestrials but many living on different planets scattered throughout the Universe. For example, we could ask: out of all the life forms in the Universe, are we the only ones that are sinful in the eyes of God?

Of course, if you are not a Christian, then none of these questions would be 0f concern to you. But given my faith in God and the Bible, they are questions I must ask and for which I have no answer.

These questions also raise an interesting dilemma for me.

As a Christian, I would venture and say that we are indeed alone in the Universe because of such religious questions that the existence of extra-terrestrials would raise.

But as a Science person, I find it almost impossible to conceive that we are indeed alone given the size of the Universe.

Serge M Botans

Serge M Botans is a man of wide experience, a self-made man who likes to reflect on many things. He has a M.Sc. in theoretical Physics where he studied Einstein theory of General Relativity. He is self-taught in: music theory and musical instruments, web design and search engine optimisation, computer programming, and more... He was a Maths, Science and Physics teacher in a high school for 12 years until he had a stress breakdown. He was born and bred in Casablance Morocco and now lives in Melbourne Australia. He has a daughter who is a gifted writer and who has won a number of writing awards while a teenager. He finds small talk very difficult and loves 'deep and meaninful' conversations. His 2 main web sites are: Mental Workout, and Cattle Ramp Services.
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» left by Terry Mitchell
 2 years 23 days ago.
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Serge, I've oftened pondered these kinds of questions as well.
» left by Serge M Botans 2 years 23 days ago.
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hi terry, glad to see that i am not the only one :-)
» left by Paul Schroeder
 2 years 23 days ago.
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your premises are wrong; how could God have thrown a handful of millet into a fertile field and you now expect only one to have sprouted?
 
 
Many species exist who are interdimensional as well as extraterrestrial;(Christ-Greek for ' chosen one- is not applicable, here) see my articles, this site, for the truer implicit nature of such discerned beings.
» left by Serge M Botans 2 years 23 days ago.
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hi paul, my premise is not wrong but different from yours ... as i mentioned, my premise is that God created all things and if there are extra-terrestrials then He created them too
 
besides God did not 'throw a handful of millet into a fertile field' but got His hands dirty by creating man from the dirt of the ground and breathing life into him ... all other creatures on Earth He spoke into existence ... ie. He used 2 different methods of creation for all life forms on Earth: the spoken word and actively breathing life

and i think that your idea that just because He created one life form, then He would have created more, is not totally logical ... if we accept the premise that God created all things in the Universe, then it would all be part of a plan ... and this plan would include humans ... if he created extra-terrestrials, then He would have had a plan/reason for doing that too
 
i think that we will never see eye to eye on these sorts of issues and will have to agree to disagree :-)
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