Since Jesus became Man in order to destroy the works of the devil here on this planet, He will never be Unman in order to redeem beings from other worlds.  The idea that His death on the cross was to redeem fallen humans on other worlds, stretches the imagination.  I wonder how "they" would understand the gospel which was carried out and proclaimed on a world "they" have not seen.  This opens the possibility that humans on another world would not have fallen and therefore would not need redemption.

I agree that this question does not cast a shadow on the things we know and believe regarding God, man, and the God Man Jesus.  It does, however, cause us to realize all the more that the universe ( all of creation, that is ) is far  bigger than we can even imagine, and that God is far greater than we can know.

Maybe the suggestion that the Biblical account referred to in this post are after all hints of the presence of angels, etc.

C. S. Lewis wrote an extremely interesting essay on this very subject in The World's Last Night. Anything I'd say would just be borrowing from him, so here's a link instead: Link

The bible was written by human beings, ergo they probably wouldn't know about other life forms if we don't in this age.  Just because they didn't write about other life forms doesn't mean they don't exist.

I'm a big fan of science-fiction... from Star Wars to Stargate, you name it. But when it comes to reality, aliens stay where they're supposed to stay; as fiction.

As pointed out by HumbleWork (1st comment above), there's just too many theological complications if aliens exist.

"Scientifically", this whole alien thing is a by-product of Darwinism and atheistic thought. In such world views, everything came into being via evolution and there is no divine being (or if there is, it's distant and disinterested in us). Since we don't find the answer to life's questions here on our own planet, we fantasize about the existence of other lifeforms on other planets... the source of our evolution and more intelligent beings whom we can look up to for guidance.

In terms of real science, despite the large universe, the probability of life existing is actually miniscule. In fact, our own planet earth is BIG miracle! Just look at the other 7 (sorry pluto...) planets in our own solar system... such harsh environments. You need the right sized planet for the right gravitational strength (or else water would not remain as liquid), you need it to be the right distance from a star (ie, our sun) for liquid water to exist, the sun needs to be at the right temperature giving out the right eletromagnetic radiation (you don't want to be fried by excessive gamma rays or not enough visible light for photosynthesis), the atmosphere needs to have oxygen (but needs to be diluted with inert gases like nitrogen or it becomes toxic and too combustible), the right atmospheric pressure, and the list continues... In fact, even the giant planet Jupiter plays an important role by pulling asteroids and meteoroids to it rather than to earth... (take Jupiter away and the probability of a "deep impact" scenario increases hundredfold times).

The probability of a planet like earth existing somewhere else in the universe capable of sustaining life is too far-fetched. And even if it does exist, there's no guarantee either that its "evolutionary history" would result in the formation of intelligent beings either. And even if intelligent life did form, it would be near practical impossible for them to travel millions of light years from their planet to ours. And why visit our planet anyway, of all the millions out there they could visit? The radio wave emission from our planet (telecommunication) is just over a hundred years old... far, far short of travelling all the way to Proxima Centauri, our nearest star.

Then what do we make of so-called UFO sightings and close encounters? A good book that examines all such encounters vigorously and offer a plausible explanation is "Alien Intrusion" by Gary Bates. Majority of such phenomena can be explained by natural or human causes, but there remains a minority of cases which is hard to explain. In a nutshell, he proposed that such "aliens" are no more than what ancient people used to call "angels", "demons" and "nephilim".

There's cases where victims claim to be abducted by aliens... a light beaming them away, and they feel some sort of an out of body experience. Now here's the interesting thing that happened in a few cases... the abductions stop when the victims invoke the name of Jesus! In fact, as experts examine such cases, they noticed one group of people missing from the demographics of alien abductions... born-again christians. Experts don't really talk about this much, but I think it says a lot about what these "aliens" really are.

The book is a must read because it clarifies a lot of issues about this ufo and alien phenomena.

@Pass_the_Aura@xanga - +1 on The World's Last Night.  Read that thing.

A little basic theology can settle this.

1. If ET has free will and an intellect he is created in God's image.

2.  Jesus was born as a human, not an ET.  Therefore the salvation of mankind remains intact and we can continue going to church on Sunday.

3.  If ET was created in God's image he is would benefit from receiving the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

I absolutely believe that God created "others". In LDS Theology, God has "created worlds without number" "numberless as the grains of sand". We very much believe there are other planets with people on them, who have God's word just as we do, through prophets, just like he did here. We also believe that Christ's atonement applies to them, as it is infinite.

I wouldn't see any reason for there to not be other life forms. The Bible only talks about earth and how earth fell from him and how He needs to redeem earth. If there were other life forms out there in this enormous universe, it'd be all the more exciting to get to know them after the events in Revelation are complete. And I don't see a need for God to tell us if there were aliens. But then again, I wouldn't see any reason for there to be aliens either. It's just going to have to be one thing we find out in Heaven.

Hahahahahahahaha!

I instantly thought of the lines referring to how God supposedly made us in his image.

Then I thought about how God supposedly made us as the highest life forms for good reason.

That means if they can find us before we find them, and if they don't look anything like us, it completely devalidates those too lines.

Fat chance of that happening though, right?

There's nothing that says there are not other worlds out there. Say that part of the great "cloud of witnesses" is made up of inhabitants of other, unfallen worlds.

The whole UFO thing... I think that's probably a satanic deception.

But otherwise, at least, who's to say we're the only world God created? So we're created in His image... animals aren't. He could have created intelligent life forms that don't look much like us, maybe creatures something like the ones described in Ezekiel and elsewhere. Who's to say they aren't out there? Maybe when we get to Heaven we'll get to meet them.

Humans are alien enough.

I guess we'll find out eventually, or you can ask Him when you Do see Him.