Can a Christian beleive in aliens on other words? yes, many have.Richard Baxter, the puritan, famously wrote that we should expect the Living God who made life all oer this world to have also acted in a similiar way in all the larger cosmos.

Should we do so is another question. There we have no evidence one way or the otehr and so should have no beleif either in or in the non existance of them, it is just and only an open question.

MAYBE the various 'living creatures' around the throne in Revelation are HINTS of such beings, but the text does not TEACH us that is what is being refered to. And in one sense we can speak of both angels and demons as 'aliens' of a specific sort of nature. That is, they are not beings who were cr3eated on this earth, but are alive and sentiant, though not physical.

Science has always been divided, I suspect in modern times as whichever 'position' they have could be used to discredit Christian belief. When I was growing up the idea of aliens existing was used to discredit the idea of specuial creation, a whole universe fuull of [evolving] life meant no special action of God in creating it [not really a logical conclusion by the way]. Now it is otherwise, as the odds on a 'chance' orgiin of life are known to be so small life on other worlds really goes against the odds of it being ther by 'chance' and some have siad we live in a sterile universe and a ''god' who made such a thing would be wasteful and so not beleivible. I have even heard the same person try to have it both ways at times, without even being aware of how inconsistant they were being.

We suimply don't know how the redemptive work and word of Christ might be related to aliens. [of coruse we do know they are if they exist moral beings, because moral law is at the foundation of being itself as created]. Be we don't know if any or all are fallen either on their own race basis [as angels] or in Adam [cosmic fall, perhaps moving back s well as foreward in time, Adam's fall being indicative of the demonic falling].We simply don't know.  

If by alien you mean people -- in the words of Curly - Why Certainly!

BUT, if you are referring to Ramolins and Klingons - they are demons!

So, my answer is all of the above!

>>> MiB: I'm afraid not for Lt. Commander Worf rejected Christ a long time ago.  He was kicked out of the Heaven with his Supreme High Pride Commander Lucifer along with a third of their comrades.  <<<

Okay. Thanks for helping us keep the characters straight. I always wondered about that Worf guy with his weird forehead. How about Mr. Spock? He doesn't seem evil, just a bit socially awkward. Are those demon ears or does he have a chance of salvation?

Or, Q? He seems pretty human looking, even kind of priestly when in full dress.

-- Clair

>>> The Q Continuum is demonic. That's a given. But the rest of them are just creatures like we are. <<<

I'm getting over my head here in Star Trek. I had to look up Q Continuum. Not sure that extra-dimensionality makes Q demonic, though he could use some humility. His powers are like a Portuguese explorer impressing some distant natives with a firearm or a looking glass - all within the realm of God's creation. Am I missing something about Q?

I agree that Worf and Spock are redeemable. I've gone to church with worse.

-- Clair

I see no biblical grounds for sayign physicla aliens, if they existed, would be manifested demons. The logic does not fit here.

Because some current claims of alien contqact MAY be domioncly induced it does not follow that any and all such contact is that. Because some Irish people are reported to like butter brickel ice cream it does not follow that all of them actually do so. because some dogs may be wolfhounds it does nto follw that all dogss are. because some REPORTS of aliens MAY be domonic in origin it does nto follwo that even all of these are due to demonic action, much less that any physical ones,if they exist, are such.

A better reading of the references in Genesis 6:1-7 are that they refer to men, either hwo are Godly [sons of God, saved people, or at least in coveantn with God] and sinenrs, men who reject God and His covenant. The passage simply refers to MEN of two ETHICAL sorts who mingeled without the needed ethicla seperation from sin the Godly are to display, resolting, as often the case, in sin becoming what defines the whole bunch.

Job 1:6-7 uses 'sons of God' here for angels, nto men who have that sort of relationship. The place is in heaven, not on earth. We do know the devil, and his minions, can be present to the earth, but here only the devil is represented is being permitted to make a bad case in the 'heavenly court'.

Neither passage is about aliens, the first is about men as men, here on earth, not demons of demi-men capable of sexual acts with humans [angels have no real gender and so as individual creations cannot procreate at all with anyone or anything]. The seocnd is outside of this cosmon completely. So neither passage has one word to say about the issue.

The bible simply does not tell us if any such creatures, not demons or angels, but fellow creatures with bodies, exist or don't exist. Some apply passages about the living creatures in heaven around the throne as POSSIBLE references to such creatures who had been saved and so exaulted as men will be to eternal life, this MAY be ahint of such, but is not proof itself, as they may simply represent the fullness of divien glory displayed in the universe reflected int eh glory throne's form as described to us. it is enough of a hint to tell us thae existance of aliens is not UNbiblical, but not enough to demonstrate they do exist. Anotehr line of evidence is that God displays His glroy in all creation, and one of His greatest creation displays of that is life. 'let all His creatues praise Him!'. Again, not proof, but something that excludes us from saying they CAN'T be there.   

First, 'fallen oens' describes all men, as all are fallen in Adam. In this case there is no real conenction between the use of 'sons of God' in Genesis and Job, the subject matter is different completely. The fact that the same term is used does not mean the same thign is being indicated. Meaning is determined by context, not decoding.

Genesis 6:1-3 tells us in verse 3 God is speaking of MEN, not angels and men. "My Spirit will not strive with men forever". Men, refering back to the sons of God and daughterts of [sinful] men are indeed flesh, and thus their life nature is to be limited by that fact. They are not ocmbinations of some angelic/demionic stuff here, but men of flesh.

6:4. the giants then, as they continued, were MEN who were mighty and valourous men. Thus whatever the giants were they REMAINED present [...and also afterwards...] and active even until at least the time of Moses.

 6:5-7. So God judged men here. So the judgment fell not on some other rwace of beings, but on men, which included some men who were compromised and sinful members of the covenant community [sons of God] as well as open sinners [daughters of men].

The passage simply does not support the whole Jewish myth of demon beings and the like, 1 Tim. 1:4, 4:7.