In this regular feature Dave and Tom respond to questions from listeners and readers of The Berean Call.Here is this week’s question:Your newsletter reported that the Vatican justified expenditures for its telescope by saying it would all be worth it if just a single alien is converted.You seem to imply disapproval of that idea.Why?Shouldn’t the gospel be given to extraterrestrials if they are encountered?

Tom:

What are you laughing about, Dave? You know, there are people who take this seriously.

Dave:

I shouldn’t laugh, Tom, but sometimes—

Tom:

But it does stretch things a bit.

Dave:

I find the lack of reasoning, common sense on the part of Christians is just staggering!First of all, Jesus said:God into all the world and preach the gospel.He didn’t say anything about other worlds out there.Secondly, I think we have already alluded to it very briefly; there cannot be extraterrestrials out there.Humanoids with the power of choice, moral beings, who have been created by God, to His glory like man was, and so forth, because if that were the case they would have sinned,I mean, obvious that’s logical.Any creature created by God, who is therefore less than God will make a less than godly choice.And sin is defined in the Bible as coming short of the glory of God, Romans:3:23For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
See All... “all have sinned and come short of the glory of God.”So every creature that was created by God will come short of the glory of God.That means they are sinners.If God loves them, and He surely would love all creatures that He made, because the Bible says God is love, then He would want to redeem them.Now how is He going to redeem them?I mean, it’s not like God said, Well, we created Adam and Eve on that planet earth and they blew it, now let’s try again, you know, on another planet and maybe we will do better with Adam and Eve Number 2.God knows everything, okay, so He knows that they would all sin.So now we’ve got a problem.We’ve got extraterrestrials out there all over this universe and the only reason anyone would believe that they are out there is if you believed in evolution, and you think life happened by chance on this planet, it can happen by chance out on other planets.But okay, so now if you believe God created them, now what’s He going to do, how is He going to redeem them?Well, to redeem man God had to become one of us, did He not?Therefore to redeem them He would have to become one of them.But the Bible tells us that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever.He became a man, He didn’t become other creatures out there, He can only be a man, He couldn’t be a man and other creatures.Furthermore, it says that He has appeared once in the end of the age to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself.So the sacrifice of Christ on this earth is the only solution to sin anywhere!Now, we’re going to have a gospel preached on some other planet?

Tom:

Well, what would Bethlehem mean to somebody light years away on another galaxy?

Dave:

Right and it wouldn’t mean anything.See, we have evidence in Scriptures, we have historical evidence, we have archeological evidence, we have the evidence of eye witnesses, and so forth, all of these elements would be missing if this gospel, which is the only gospel there could be were preached to other creatures on another planet.But it couldn’t, the death of Christ could not pay for them because He would have to become one of them.So they’re just simply—they are not out there.The Vatican doesn’t know that.

Tom:

The Vatican, which we are going to discuss later, believes in evolution.They have the basis for developing this and spending money for it.No, it’s not biblical.

Dave:

So, this big telescope is supposedly to find life out there so that we can go out and evangelize them.Furthermore, I mean it’s—Tom, I’m sorry, but it’s a delusion from so many angles, let me just give you one other angle.They are light years away, how are we going to get to them?I mean, it would be worth it if we could just save one soul, how are you going to get there?Come on, our spacecraft are not capable of doing that!So, it’s just a delusion all the way around, but the worst part of it is that it is not biblical.