Is the Belief in UFOs and Extraterrestrial

Races Compatible with Christianity?

by Todd Wilken

Clear Biblical teachings preclude the belief in UFOs and Extraterrestrial Races.
 
First, Scripture clearly teaches that the sole origin of the human race is Adam and Eve, "Adam named his wife Eve, because she would become the mother of all the living." (Genesis 3:20); and "From one man he made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live." (Acts 17:26).
Second, Scripture also clearly teaches that the fall into sin effected all of creation. Paul writes:

The creation waits in eager expectation for the sons of God to be revealed. For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope, that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God. We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. (Romans 8:19-22)
If alien races were to exist, then the fall into sin would affect them as well. If the fall effected all creation, and all creation includes aliens, then the fall affected aliens.
 
Third, Scripture also clearly teaches that God desires to save all men (1 Timothy 2:4-5) and that Jesus came to save sinners (1 Timothy 1:15). Again, because the fall was universal, extraterrestrials, if they existed, would be included among those subjected to sin and death. Therefore, Jesus would have come to save them too.
 
Fourth, Scripture clearly teaches that the only Son of God became incarnate as a human being:
Since the children have flesh and blood, he too shared in their humanity so that by his death he might destroy him who holds the
 power of death-- that is, the devil-- and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death. Hebrews 2:14-15
 
The incarnation of Jesus in human flesh was not a temporary arrangement. The incarnation permanently incorporated the perfect human nature of Jesus into the triune Godhead itself. This rules out Jesus appearing on other planets in other incarnations to save extraterrestrial races. Since Jesus cannot be both permanently man and temporarily man, therefore no other incarnations (on alien worlds to save alien sinners) could have occurred.
 
Here is the clear teaching of Scripture:
1) The singular origin of man.
2) The universal fall into sin.
3) God's desire to save all sinners through Jesus.
4) The singular incarnation of Jesus in human flesh.
 
These clear, Biblical teachings logically preclude the existence of extraterrestrial races.

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