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No. There is sufficient evidence/ statements in God's Word to know/realize (God Willing) that He did not create "aliens" in outer space.
Is there?

I mean Genesis sort of reads like an entirely pre scientific understanding of the cosmos, what with an earth "inside" a shell of firmament. Its like biblical creation doesnt even talk about outer space at all, so I dont know how we could consider the Bible definitive about aliens.

Maybe there's other verses that are more definitive?
 
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How can 'wastefulness' be a valid scientific criteria where 'no purpose' (for life) is also a key assumption?
It was in the context of an assumed creator God. Check the quote I was responding to.

OK, but that's irrelevant to my post, as above.
 
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"Wasteful" implies limited resources and assumes purely utilitarian purposes, neither of which apply to a Creator.
 
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IMO we are the only intelligent life in the universe. The universe had to be as big as it is to allow us to be here. Just like a system needs a certain amount of parts to work for the universe to have produced and sustained life it needed to have all the components that ensured life. Despite scientists saying they have found exoplanets no life has been detected. In fact if anything they have found how rare the earth and the life on it is in the universe.
Humans May Be the Only Intelligent Life in the Universe, If Evolution Has Anything to Say

If there are intelligent aliens then why would God make Jesus be crucified over and over again to save them. They would and could not have heard about redemption from it happening on this planet. In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth for which he created life on and not other planets. Christ died once and for all as the bible says and that was on earth.
 
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A near death experiencer was shown that some technologically advanced aliens as well as angels keep humanity from having an all out nuclear war.

Howard Storm's Near-Death Experience

 
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There's a very informative video on this subject, called "the privileged planet".
I came across it while doing some research on the subject, after a violent encounter with an unknown entity. I didn't need any convincing about their existence, after the physical encounter which almost took my life.

I used to mock people who claimed to see or experience anything "otherworldly", until it happened to me.
 
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Would God have created aliens and not told us?

God doesn't tell us everything. Only what we need to know.

Would He have visited each creation separately and created a Bible separate for each species?

If they exist:

1. They might be like animals. Dogs don't need a Bible, even smart ones.

2. They might be like angels. Angels don't need a Bible.

3. They might be like demons. A Bible is no use to demons: they are utterly lost.

4. They may be completely different from what we can imagine.

5. They might be like us, and we might need to go and evangelise them one day.

6. They might be like us, and Christ may also have become incarnate on their world (many Christians would consider this unlikely).
 
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Yes, aliens exist and many of them are among us without even realizing their presence, surely you have seen many without knowing that they were aliens.
 
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Not like anybody will even read this reply, but I really like to waste time thinking about this topic.

I think a combination of possibilities 5 and 6 also neither is the most likely scenario.

I know it's really really a stretch since it only sounds this way in the English Standard Version:
Hebrews 4:14 , the "having passed through the heavens"
part could just maybe possibly be interpreted to also mean that Jesus stopped by all inhabited worlds on his way back to his throne from Earth when he ascended?

Also, this one I just found Mark 13:27 (this time it's consistent in several versions) "...gather his elect from the four winds, from the ends of the earth to the ends of heaven."

Might barely in a really pushing it sort of way possibly mean that God has elect people up in outer space?

There are several more questionable interpretations I found while looking for evidence of a mere possibility of alien life in the universe.

Of course, there are a lot of single out-of-context verses that anyone can use to prove their own point.

Also, by the way, I think if humans ever did find real solid evidence of the existence of intelligent aliens, then most people today who identify as Christian would suddenly identify as atheist for some reason.

Also I see no reason why demons wouldn't appear to humans and say they are from another planet in order to advance the work of the devil.
 
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The Oxford dictionary describes the word "Alien" as "supposedly other worldly". Since mankind has never found a single shred of evidence to support the existence of Aliens on other planets, so the dictionary needed to insert the word "supposedly" in front of their description.

The Bible describes 3 heavens, the first is our atmosphere, the second is space which contains the sun moon and stars and the third is where the angels reside and God's presence is also there but God is present everywhere at the same time.

When Jesus traveled through the heavens, it was only to get to and from the third heaven. There is no suggestion in the Bible that He visited other planets.

It would be completely out of God's character to give us a detailed description of all the animals and creatures He created in the book of Genesis, and hide something so important as intelligent beings on other planets. No Christian could ever believe in a sneaky god, who has affairs behind our back.

The world is full of Aliens, any one of us could have encountered one today and not even know it. Angels and Demons have the ability to take on any likeness they wish, they can appear as innocent children or ugly monsters and everything in between. This is why we have millions of reported encounters.
 
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The details of pathogens, viruses, single celled organisms, nuclear structures and relativity are all missing from the Bible, so an assumption that anything he didn't specify doesn't exist seems unjustified.
 
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