“For after seven more days I will cause it to rain on the earth forty days and forty nights, and I will destroy from the face of the earth all living things that I have made.” - Genesis 7:4
Now just suppose God had indeed destroyed everything on the face of the earth. Every microbe, every bacteria, every insect, every walking, swimming, flying creature on the planet was destroyed. If God were to have done that, would there still be life elsewhere in the universe? It is an important question today because there are many people who insist that we are not alone. I have actually heard the argument that this verse from Genesis is the lynchpin that “proves beyond a shadow of doubt” that there are alien life-forms. The argument goes something like this: God is only saying that He was going to destroy the life . . . on earth! With all due respect to those of you who desperately want to believe that we are not alone, both the Bible and the latest scientific evidence prove that you are not only misguided but resolutely wrong. “In it were all kinds of four-footed animals of the earth, wild beasts, creeping things, and birds of the air.” Acts 10:12. As just one example of God’s creatures, we can see Peter’s vision of animals coming down to earth . . . these are creatures OF the earth. No alien life forms here.
We seem to be constantly barraged with news reports from the “authorities” that there is now evidence that there “may be, could be, is possible” evidence of life on another planet. And if that seems hard for you to follow then all I can say is “join the club!” Every statistic, photo, video, and sample extracted from the Moon, Mars and every other heavenly body we have ever observed show us nothing that would lead a logical person to believe there is life elsewhere in the cosmos. There isn’t a single shred of evidence that would lead us to such a conclusion. In answer to this, a recent scientific paper suggests that the reason we can’t find life on any planet is because they have moved “underground” to avoid being observed. This new claim isn’t only laughable; it’s pathological!
Nowhere in our Bible is there any reference to alien life forms. There are ostentatious suggestions that the vision described in Ezekiel 1 included an alien spacecraft, a conceivable “chariot of the gods.” Nothing definitive, mind you, but if there is an opening for those who would suggest such nonsense, there it is.
What does the Bible say regarding the life forms God has created? “And every creature which is in heaven and on the earth and under the earth and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, I heard saying: ‘Blessing and honor and glory and power be to Him who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb, forever and ever!’” - Revelation 5:13 Such passages suggest that all of creation worships God. Again, “Let everything that has breath praise the Lord. Praise the Lord!” - Psalm 150:6. I’m pretty sure that secular scientists of today would in no way endorse such a fiat from God. In fact, you have these same secularists taking the high moral ground, claiming abortion is a woman’s right, homosexuality is not a sin but a lifestyle choice, transgenderism is not outright insanity but a personal decision, and then they all agree that we are not alone in the universe? I can only speak for myself but I just find all of their claims unbelievable. Again, such claims as these border certifiable insanity. We must never forget that these “intellectuals” are the same ones who claim a single bacteria floating through space would be LIFE! Yet they reject the very idea that a zygote, a fertilized human ovum, is the beginning of human life on this planet. The irony of this madness cannot be ignored.
Finally, according to our Holy Bible, man has been given dominion over all the animals - “You have made him to have dominion over the works of Your hands; You have put all things under his feet, all sheep and oxen— even the beasts of the field, the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea that pass through the paths of the seas.” - Psalm 8:6-8. What man has dominion over is “the works” of God’s hands. Obviously, any secular scientist worth his weight in relativism, would have to disagree and say that for an alien life form to reach earth would require technological advances far ahead of our human understanding and capabilities at this time. Were such an event to actually take place, the Bible would be wrong about mankind’s dominion. We can’t have it both ways. Either God is in control and man is the highest form of biological life created by God, or secular science is right and we’re just floating haphazardly through space waiting for the next comet to hit.
God has made the future of our world clear to us and He has made our responsibility clear to us - “But he who endures to the end shall be saved. And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come.” Matthew 24:13-14. The gospel will be preached in THIS world . . . and then the end will come. Let us concentrate on spreading the holy gospel of Jesus Christ in this world and leave the heavy lifting of galaxies and universes to their Creator - “Then He who sat on the throne said, ‘Behold, I make all things new.’ And He said to me, ‘Write, for these words are true and faithful.’” - Revelation 21:5.
Our Holy Bible contains all the evidence I have shown to disprove life anywhere but here on earth; where is your evidence to prove the contrary? The starry nights have been given to us by God for the natural revelation of His holy being and His own glorification, not to be the subject of erroneous speculation.
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