[Apologetics] Religious significance of contact with intelligent life from other planets

[Stuart Gathman]

On 07/18/2016 12:52 AM, Art Kelly wrote:
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> 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?
> # /Posted by: Art Kelly - May. 24, 2007 12:03 AM ET USA//               
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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.

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.

I've only read one story with Art's model - where aliens are also fallen.

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.
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