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Yours was the first thought that occurred to me, as well.

Then Out of the Silent Planet and Perelandra.

Then the realization that this is all a moot point: it all depends on whether the aliens have accepted Barack H. Obama as their personal savior (mmm, mmm, mmm). /sarc>

Cheers!

Thanks for your post. The whole Gospel story is ruined, that is why. God does all things for His glory. The bottom line on this is that the enemy of our souls cannot create.

But, he does dilute. So whatever God does, the enemy dilutes and confuses. Thus we have many world ‘religions’ because it confuses the mind and heart of man to have the alternatives. Most of them are mostly true.

God created for a purpose - to give Himself glory. If we see ‘aliens’ it is my considered opinion that the aliens will claim to have placed man here, thus diluting and confusing the creation claim of God.

The Bible tells us that there are two types of eternal and sentient created beings: angels, and men. Among the angels, some are fallen, and for them there is no plan of redemption. Among men, all are fallen, but there is a plan of redemption.

Thus, living creatures, if sentient, must be either angels or men. (A third possibility would be that sentient beings exist that are not eternal, and thus, the question would be answered in that way.)

These beings are clearly not men or they would be recognized. But the Bible says that the enemy can appear to us even as an angel of light. Since the Word attributes to our enemy the ability to change his appearance for his own purposes of deception, it stands to reason that he can appear as an alien.

Thus, aliens, in my opinion, are fallen angels, deceptively appearing to take credit for what God has done. There is no plan of salvation for them.

Thank you for allowing me to beat the horse again.

Getting back to God’s purposes in creation..... God created Adam and placed him in the garden. The enemy tempted him and made him fall, so he thought he had won. This would be reasonable since the enemy had fallen and there was no going back....

But God had a plan all along. The second one in God’s economy is often the most favored (see Jacob over Esau, Rachel over Leah, Isaac over Ishmael, the Gospel over the Law, etc.).

So the second created being, Adam, was offered victory. Victory was not possible without a fall and a struggle. God promised a son who would deliver. He made a covenant with Abraham that God Himself would keep. He promised David an eternal kingdom.

The second Adam, Christ, fulfilled what Adam did not and the rest of us could not.

No ET could fit into that. These phenomena are clearly spiritual, designed to deceive the enemy of our souls.

They will appear, if they appear, to take credit for placing man here - a direct assault on the creation story, and thus an assault on all of God’s purposes in the Earth.