What About Aliens and the Christian Faith?

The Heavenly Banquet

In this episode Chad Rhodes and Charlotte Elia talk about aliens and what impact an encounter with extraterrestrial life might have on the Christian faith. Your hosts also discuss the impact of Christ's life, death, and resurrection on the entire cosmos and wonder if aliens even need salvation. Will the story of a 1st century Palestinian Jew preach to beings from other worlds? What will life out there mean for faith down here?

Charlotte: Theoretically? The Christ event, the intersection of creator and creation that happens in the incarnation, there’s no way that doesn’t affect absolutely all of creation.

Chad: Right. The infinite enters time and space.

Charlotte: And so that means all of creation beyond this world. Why would that be limited to here? But when I start to think of the specificity of that event happening in a particular time and place, and not just a particular time and place in this world, but all worlds, of all possible worlds? That starts to make me feel like maybe I got really high and started to try to think about something because it blows my mind… To think that this event would change the circumstances or could change the circumstances of sentient beings—

Chad: That are not human.