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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 07/18/2016 12:52 AM, Art Kelly
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<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1468816881608_4188">Do you deny the
possibility of intelligent life on other planets, including
creatures advanced enough to travel through space? And if
so, they would be created by God in his own image and
likeness. And that they may have sinned and were redeemed by
the Second Person of the Holy Trinity, who established a
Church. And that, traveling to Earth, they might seek out
religious leaders similar to their own back home. Can you
state with a certainty that this story has no foundation
whatsoever?</div>
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sans-serif"><font color="#000000">Most of the Christian Sci-fi
I've read has earth quarantined from the rest of the
universe until the sin problem is fully dealt with. Aliens
give us a wide berth - unless they are given special
instructions from God himself. This explains the general
lack of contact, with occasional secret meetings.<br>
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Another model is a universe empty of other intelligent life
- it was created entirely for mankind. (There are other
universes, of course.) This explains the general lack of
contact. Christian stories of this type involve space
travel in the far future, and mankind still fallen.<br>
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I've only read one story with Art's model - where aliens are
also fallen. <br>
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IMO, the first model makes for better christian sci-fi. The
last model ends up being Colonialism all over again in
stories. (Evangelize the heathen on other planets.) Or, Protagonist
hears the Gospel for the first time from Little Green Men.<br>
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