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What does the Bible say about UFO's & Aliens? Ep 2819 · Challenges of Faith Radio Program

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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to Challenges of Faith Radio program I'm Gary M.
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  Speaker 1: Kinn's thank you for joining. Thank you for joining. On
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  Speaker 1: episode twenty eight hundred and nineteen. The question is what
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  Speaker 1: does the Bible say about UFOs? Back to Knowledge God
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  Speaker 1: and our listeners and Challenges of Faith Radio Programmers, also
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  Speaker 1: now airing on iv FM. Iv FM. Unidentified Flying Objects
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  Speaker 1: we've been identified as any aerial object or optacle phenomenon
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  Speaker 1: not readily identifiable to the observer. UFOs became a major
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  Speaker 1: subject of interest following the development of rocket Tree after
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  Speaker 1: World War Two, and when bought by some researchers to
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  Speaker 1: be intelligent extraterrestrial life visiting Earth. The first well known
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  Speaker 1: UF's oh sighting occurred in nineteen forty seven, when businessman
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  Speaker 1: Kenneth Arnold claimed to see a group of nine high
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  Speaker 1: speed objects near Mount Rainier in Washington while flying his
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  Speaker 1: small plane. Arnold estimated the speed of the crescent shaped
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  Speaker 1: small plane correction. Arnold estimated the speed of the crescent
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  Speaker 1: shaped objects as several thousand miles per arms, said they
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  Speaker 1: moved like saucers keeping on water. A newspaper report that
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  Speaker 1: followed it was mistakenly stated that the objects were saucerers shaped,
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  Speaker 1: hence the term flying saucer do avians exists. According to
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  Speaker 1: a NSAA scientist, this is really interesting question and one
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  Speaker 1: that in ASA NASA have been trying to understand, explore,
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  Speaker 1: and figure out for a long time. We have not
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  Speaker 1: yet discovered life on any other planet, and we have
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  Speaker 1: not seen any scientifically supported evidence for extra terrestrial life.
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  Speaker 1: But if we think about life on this planet beyond
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  Speaker 1: the big things, the elephants, the wells, redwood trees, and
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  Speaker 1: focus on the tiny things, Nearly everywhere on Earth that
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  Speaker 1: we've looked, we've found microbial light. Our definition of hapatible
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  Speaker 1: environments continue to expand. Off the Earth, we've only begun
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  Speaker 1: to look. NASA has sent five roars and four landers
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  Speaker 1: to the surface of Mars. Additionally, Orbius have been outfitted
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  Speaker 1: with some amazing cameras to take pictures of the whole
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  Speaker 1: surface of the red print. But we've only explored a
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  Speaker 1: tiny fraction of Mars, and that's only one of the
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  Speaker 1: promising bodies to look for life in our Solar system.
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  Speaker 1: There are icy moons in the outer Solar System, like
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  Speaker 1: Saturn's moon and Jupiter's moon that looks like they may
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  Speaker 1: have subsurface oceans. They could be habitable, and that's just
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  Speaker 1: what's in our Solar system. The more exo planets we
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  Speaker 1: find around stars, the more we learn about how many
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  Speaker 1: different environments could exist for life. We can't yet say
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  Speaker 1: for sure whether or not aliens exist. To quote Carl Sagan,
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  Speaker 1: the universe is a pretty big place. If it's just us,
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  Speaker 1: it seems like an awful waste of space. So NASA,
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  Speaker 1: we'll keep looking. What do scientists really think? A survey
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  Speaker 1: of one than fifty five scientists include five hundred and
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  Speaker 1: twenty one astrobiologists, found that eighty six point six percent
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  Speaker 1: believe basic extraterrestrial life likely exists. Agreement among non astrobiologists
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  Speaker 1: were similar. Scientists cite the abundance of habitable environments in
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  Speaker 1: the universe and the non zero probability of life arising
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  Speaker 1: as indirect evidence supporting those beliefs. It seems like a
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  Speaker 1: strong consensus, But why isn't it even higher? There might
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  Speaker 1: be life on moons in our Solar system, and there
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  Speaker 1: are one hundred billion planets in just our galaxy, but
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  Speaker 1: there's still no concrete evidence for life outside Earth. In total,
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  Speaker 1: five hundred and twenty one astrobiologists responded, and we received
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  Speaker 1: five hundred and thirty four non astrobiology responses. The results
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  Speaker 1: revealed that eighty six point six percent of survey astrobiologists
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  Speaker 1: responded either agree or strongly agree that it's likely that
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  Speaker 1: extraterrestrial life will at least a basic kind, exists somewhere
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  Speaker 1: in the universe. Less than two percent disagreed, with twelve
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  Speaker 1: percent stay neutral. So based on this, we might say
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  Speaker 1: that there's a solid consensus that extraterrestrial life of some
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  Speaker 1: form exists somewhere out there. So why do people tend
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  Speaker 1: to believe UFOs are extraterrestrial very Marco Biski, Distinguished Professor
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  Speaker 1: of Aritors of Sociology, writes for The Conversation about the
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  Speaker 1: continuing fascination with UFOs unidentified flying objects and the persistent
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  Speaker 1: belief that these things are not of our world. Most
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  Speaker 1: of us still call them UFOs unidentified flying objects. NASA
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  Speaker 1: recently adopted the term unidentified anomalous phenomenon were UAPs. Either way,
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  Speaker 1: every few years, popular claims resurface that these things are
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  Speaker 1: not of our world, or that the US government has
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  Speaker 1: some stored away. I'm a sociologist who focuses on the
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  Speaker 1: interplay between individuals and groups, especially concerning shared beliefs and misconceptions.
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  Speaker 1: As for why UFOs and their alleged occupants and thrill
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  Speaker 1: of the public, I've found that normal human perceptual and
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  Speaker 1: social processes explained UFO buzz as much as anything up
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  Speaker 1: in the sky. For historical contexts like political scandals and
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  Speaker 1: high waist genes, UFOs trend in and out of collective awareness,
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  Speaker 1: but never fully disappear. Thirty years of polling find that
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  Speaker 1: twenty five or fifty percent of surveyed Americans believe at
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  Speaker 1: least some UFOs are alien spacecraft. Today, in the United States,
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  Speaker 1: over one hundred million adults thinks our galacting neighbors pay
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  Speaker 1: us visits. It wasn't always so. Linking objects in the
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  Speaker 1: sky with visiting extraterrestrials has risen in popularity only in
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  Speaker 1: the past seventy five years, and some of this is
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  Speaker 1: probably market driven. Early UFO stories used to newspaper magazine cells,
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  Speaker 1: and today they are reliable clickbait online. Only a small
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  Speaker 1: percentage of UFO believers are eye witnesses. The rest based
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  Speaker 1: their opinions on eerie images and videos strown across both
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  Speaker 1: social media and the traditional mass media. There are astronomical
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  Speaker 1: and biological reasons to be skeptical of UFO claims, but
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  Speaker 1: less often discussed are these psychological and social factors that
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  Speaker 1: bring them into the popular forefront. Many people would love
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  Speaker 1: to know whether or not we're loaned in the universe.
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  Speaker 1: For so far, the evidence of UFO origins is ambiguous
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  Speaker 1: at best. Being aversed of ambiquity, people want answers, However,
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  Speaker 1: being highly motivated to find those answers, can buyas judgments.
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  Speaker 1: People are more likely to accept weak evidence of all
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  Speaker 1: prey to optical illusions if they support pre existing beliefs.
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  Speaker 1: For example, in the twenty seventeen Navy video, the UFO
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  Speaker 1: appears as a centrical aircraft moving rapidly over the background,
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  Speaker 1: rotating and darting in a manner like any terrestrial machine.
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  Speaker 1: Science writer Mick West Analysis challenges us interpretation using data
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  Speaker 1: displayed on the tracking screen and some basic geometry. He
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  Speaker 1: explained how the movements attributed to the blurr UFO are
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  Speaker 1: an illusion. They stem from the plane's trajectory relative to
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  Speaker 1: the object, the quick adjudgments of the belly mounted camera,
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  Speaker 1: and misperceptions based on our tendency to assume cameras and
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  Speaker 1: backgrounds stationery. Wes found that the UFO's flight characteristics was
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  Speaker 1: more like a bird's or weather balloons than an acrobactic
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  Speaker 1: interstellar spacecraft. But the illusion is compelling, especially with the
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  Speaker 1: Navy still deeming the object unidentified. Yet keep in mind
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  Speaker 1: those pilots were up there versus the person who's making
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  Speaker 1: an analysis. Wes also a dressed the former intelligence officers
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  Speaker 1: claim that the US government possessed crash UFOs and dead aliens.
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  Speaker 1: He emphasized cars and giving the whistleblowers only evidence was
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  Speaker 1: that people he trusts told him they'd seen the alien artifacts.
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  Speaker 1: Wes noted, We've heard the sort of thing before, along
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  Speaker 1: with promises that the proof will soon be rebuilt, but
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  Speaker 1: it never comes. And again I would caution that the
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  Speaker 1: individual that is speaking of, and other individuals based upon
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  Speaker 1: their still intact clearances high clearances are not able to
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  Speaker 1: provide that which he wants and others wants. If true, anyone,
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  Speaker 1: including pilots and intelligence officers, can be socially influenced to
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  Speaker 1: see things that aren't there. Research shows that are hearing
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  Speaker 1: from others who claim to have seen something extraordinary is
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  Speaker 1: enough to induce similar judgments. The effect is heightened when
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  Speaker 1: the influencers are numerous or higher in status. Even recognized
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  Speaker 1: experts aren't immune from misjudging unfamiliar images obtained under unusual conditions.
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  Speaker 1: So what does the Bible say about aliens? The Bible
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  Speaker 1: reveals that there is exterrestrial life, but not as many supposed.
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  Speaker 1: Although the Bible doesn't speak of aliens who live on
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  Speaker 1: far away planets, it does speak of cosmic powers over
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  Speaker 1: this present darkness, spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places,
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  Speaker 1: and you can find that in Ephesians, chapter six, verse twelve.
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  Speaker 1: And the question is, could the UFO and alien phenomenon
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  Speaker 1: people perceive today actually be wicked spiritual forces to undermine
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  Speaker 1: our belief in God? There are a lot of unknowns
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  Speaker 1: in the universe out there. Space is vast that we
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  Speaker 1: cannot explore everything out there. There have been movies made
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  Speaker 1: about astronaut sci fi themes and aliens, and as believers,
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  Speaker 1: it's important to understand what we believe about exterrestrial beings.
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  Speaker 1: The intrigue. Think about it, the intrigue, I'll say it again,
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  Speaker 1: The intrigues around the exterrestrial life and the vast expanse
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  Speaker 1: of the cosmos has captivated humanity for generations. This fascination
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  Speaker 1: often leads to the question, what does the Bible say
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  Speaker 1: about aliens and the existence of life beyond our planet?
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  Speaker 1: And while the Bible doesn't provide explicit information about exterrestrial
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  Speaker 1: beings and the modern sense, it offers principles and insights
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  Speaker 1: that can guide believers and contemplating the unknown realms of creation.
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  Speaker 1: And when you say believers, I'm talking about followers of
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  Speaker 1: Jesus Christ. The scriptures do not directly address the existence
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  Speaker 1: of extraterrestrial beings living on distant planets as depicted in
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  Speaker 1: popular culture. The Biblical text focuses primarily on God's relationship
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  Speaker 1: with humanity and the history of Earth from creation to redemption.
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  Speaker 1: The absence of specific mentions of aiding in life forms
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  Speaker 1: lead to the understanding that the Bible's purpose is to
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  Speaker 1: God humanity and spiritual matters an earthly stewardship, rather than
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  Speaker 1: to provide an exhaustive account of the universe contents. The
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  Speaker 1: focus of Biblical teachings is more on earthly matters and
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  Speaker 1: the spiritual salvation available through Jesus Christ. The narrative of
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  Speaker 1: The Bible is deeply concerned with human behavior, ethics, and
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  Speaker 1: the relationship between God and man. Crime. It addresses the
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  Speaker 1: human condition, sin, redemption, and the establishment of God's kingdom,
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  Speaker 1: goiding believers, and living a life that honors God and
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  Speaker 1: respect others. And you got to think about it. While
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  Speaker 1: modern discussions about aliens typically referred to extraterrestrial beings, the
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  Speaker 1: Bible uses the term alien in the context of foreigners
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  Speaker 1: or strangers, individuals from different lands living among the people
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  Speaker 1: of Israel. You know, Scriptures such as Exodus twenty two,
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  Speaker 1: verse twenty one, do not mistreat or oppress a foreigner,
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  Speaker 1: for you were foreigners in Egypt emphasize can passion, kindness,
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  Speaker 1: and acceptance towards foreigners, teaching that they should be treated
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  Speaker 1: with same respect to love as one's own people. In
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  Speaker 1: Biblical terms, resident aliens refer to individuals from other nations
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  Speaker 1: who lived among the Israelites, sharing in their community and
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  Speaker 1: legal protections while maintaining distinct cultural identities. These individuals were
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  Speaker 1: to be treated with fairness and love, reflecting the inclusive
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  Speaker 1: nature of God's law and the value placed on human dignity.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible doesn't specifically mention of the planets as we
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  Speaker 1: understand them today. The ancient Biblical worldview was centered around
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  Speaker 1: the Earth, the Sun, the Moon, and the stars, without
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  Speaker 1: modern understanding of the solar system or the vastness of
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  Speaker 1: the universe. However, just like Psalm nineteen one, the heavens
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  Speaker 1: declare the glory of God, the skies proclaimed the work
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  Speaker 1: of his hand. It expressed a sense of awe and
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  Speaker 1: reverence for the creative universe, acknowledging the vascence and majesty
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  Speaker 1: of God's creation. And while the Bible does not discuss
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  Speaker 1: other galaxies or the specifical space travel, it does acknowledge
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  Speaker 1: the vastness of God's creation, and we look at passages
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  Speaker 1: like Isaiah chapter forty, verse twenty six, it encourages us
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  Speaker 1: to look up at the heavens that consider the breath
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  Speaker 1: of God's creative power. You know, when I go outside,
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  Speaker 1: I look up and I'm just amazed at all there
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  Speaker 1: can be seen with the naked eye. This can lead
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  Speaker 1: to a sin of wondering curiosity about the universe, while
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  Speaker 1: still recognizing that the primary purpose of the Bible is
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  Speaker 1: to address spiritual truths and moral guidance. As you know,
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  Speaker 1: the Bible doesn't expecially mention dinosaurs or came in as
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  Speaker 1: these concepts were developed long after the Biblical texts were written.
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  Speaker 1: The creation accounts in Genesis describes God's creation of the
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  Speaker 1: world and all living creatures, but they do not provide
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  Speaker 1: detailed scientific descriptions or timelines, and the lack of direct
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  Speaker 1: references to dinosaurs or prehistoric humans does not negate their existence,
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  Speaker 1: or rather highlights the Bible's focus on theological rather than
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  Speaker 1: scientific explanations of the world and then contemplating the mis
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  Speaker 1: of the universe, including a question of extraterrestrial life. Believers
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  Speaker 1: are encouraged to maintain a perspective rooted in you ready
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  Speaker 1: biblical principles, and while the Bible does not provide specific
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  Speaker 1: answers about aliens or other planets, it teaches us to
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  Speaker 1: approach all of god creation with awe, respect and a
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  Speaker 1: sense of stewardship, and it reminds us of the importance
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  Speaker 1: of focusing on our spiritual journey and our relationship with others,
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  Speaker 1: while remaining open to the vastness and mystery of the
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  Speaker 1: universe that God has created and whether or not aliens exist.
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  Speaker 1: The Biblical call to love, compassionate, and melity still remains
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  Speaker 1: paramount as we explore the unknown and ponder the marvels
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  Speaker 1: beyond our world. You know, you've heard it said you
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  Speaker 1: can be so earthly minded o heavenly good, and vice versa.
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  Speaker 1: You've heard that, have you not? I know you have.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, when you look at the scriptures as
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  Speaker 1: at least to God, you know if you took God, well,
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  Speaker 1: let me start. If you took a cup and put
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  Speaker 1: that cup in an ocean of water and took it out,
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  Speaker 1: what would you have? You would not have an oce.
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  Speaker 1: You just have a cup of water. If you took
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  Speaker 1: God and put him in the test to and knew
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  Speaker 1: all about God, he wouldn't be God anymore. A question
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  Speaker 1: was asked of Job, and it's applicable to you and
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  Speaker 1: me today, since your of the belief, if you are,
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  Speaker 1: even as a follow of Jesus Christ, that God can
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  Speaker 1: only do this, He can only do that, just like
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  Speaker 1: you heard those scientists talk about all those other galaxies
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  Speaker 1: out there. But in Job chapter thirty eight, verse four
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  Speaker 1: through the seven, God asked a question of Job, and
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  Speaker 1: he asked it of you and I. Since you got
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  Speaker 1: it going on whether you're scientists or not, where were
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  Speaker 1: you when I laid the Earth's foundation? Tell me if
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  Speaker 1: you understand who marked off this dimension, surely you know
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  Speaker 1: who stretched a measuring line across it on what words
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  Speaker 1: footing set? Or who laid this cornerstone while the morning
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  Speaker 1: stars singing together and all the angels shouted for joy.
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  Speaker 1: You got to remember the book of Genesis is the
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  Speaker 1: record of the family tree of the Jews. It's the
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  Speaker 1: genealogy of heaven, earth, and man. Even the New Burpose
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  Speaker 1: suggests that when you look at Genesis chapter three, verse fifteen,
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  Speaker 1: whereas the first mention of a redeemer, remember God can
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  Speaker 1: create whoever he want to create. You can't put him
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  Speaker 1: in a test to but know all about God. He
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't be God. Then you know the earth could have
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  Speaker 1: been created billions and billions and billions of years ago.
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  Speaker 1: How would you know? You weren't there men and women,
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  Speaker 1: women and man. In Isaiah chapter forty five, verse twelve,
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  Speaker 1: it is I who made the earth and created mankind
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  Speaker 1: upon it, my own hands stressed out the heavens. I'm
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  Speaker 1: marsh of their starry host. So you know till I
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  Speaker 1: you hear me say, when I go out and I
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  Speaker 1: look up and at night time when you look at
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  Speaker 1: all those stars and the individuals who are close on
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  Speaker 1: it in terms of research, and if you don't want
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  Speaker 1: to believe it was God dashed all right, one day
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  Speaker 1: you'll see in Jenesis chapter one, verse sixteenth. God made
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  Speaker 1: two great lights, the greater light to govern the day
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  Speaker 1: and the lesser light to govern the night. He also
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  Speaker 1: made the stars, and Psalm nineteen, verse one, the heavens
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  Speaker 1: declared glory of God. The skies proclaimed the work of
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  Speaker 1: his hands, and Isaiah forty verse twenty six, lift up
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  Speaker 1: your eyes and looked at the heavens who created all these.
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  Speaker 1: He brings up the starry hosts one by one and
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  Speaker 1: calls for each of them by Dame and Jove. Chapter
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  Speaker 1: thirty eight, verse seven, while the morning stars sang together,
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  Speaker 1: and all the angels shouted for joy Psalms. He determines
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  Speaker 1: the number of the stars and calls them each by name.
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  Speaker 1: Psalm one forty seven, verse fort He determines the number
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  Speaker 1: of the stars and calls them each by name.