God and aliens, what’s the connection?
Dan Svec, Guest Writer
Christians don’t give aliens enough attention. Although Scripture does not suggest there is life on other planets, it also does not rule out the possibility. While the Bible is inerrant, it does not incorporate every aspect of science or history that we now know as fact. There is more to this universe than we know.
Even the parts of the universe we have investigated are so vast and infinite that its entirety goes beyond our understanding. This is much like our understanding of God. Revelations 1:8 says, “I am the Alpha and the Omega, who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty.” As much as we think we know God, we have only touched the surface.
Just as it would be foolish to put God in a box, it would be just as ignorant to put limits on his universe. It is ludicrous to think that human beings are without a doubt the only inhabitants of the cosmos.
Faith is believing in something you do not know as fact, which is necessary in any religion. We have faith to believe in God; we believe in something that is beyond our understanding.
When witnessing to nonbelievers about the existence of God, Christians cannot prove it with visual or scientific evidence. Yet, people continue to believe. Similarly, there is no hard evidence of another race of beings. So although I cannot prove to you there are aliens, you cannot prove there are not.
Famed communication scholar Robert Scott said once, “In order to deny a something, there has to be a something.” What that means is, you cannot deny something that you do not know about. When atheists say they do not believe in God, they just acknowledged the existence of God.
In the same way, do not “deny” the existence of aliens because in so doing you will have acknowledged the idea of aliens.
The question then becomes, where did the belief in aliens originate? If the first thing you think of when I say “aliens” is “Men in Black,” fine. But the screenwriter and animators of the film had to have gotten their conceptions of aliens from somewhere. After tracing the idea of aliens from our modern day perception of little green men back to the first science fiction images, there still must be an origin of the initial inquisition about life on other planets. It had to have come from somewhere.
If one day science proved that life exists on other worlds, everything would change. In light of this possibility, today we should rethink our role as humans on Earth. Yes, scientific proof of aliens would change our understanding of God. But not in a negative way. Instead of disillusionment, we would experience a broader comprehension of his infinite possibilities. The truth is out there.
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