1. The Bible doesn't mention aliens, even though it mentions everything else in the visible world.
In what way does the Bible mention everything else in the visible world? I have serious doubts about this unless you're classifying in very general terms.
2. We haven't found any aliens yet. Not even microbes.
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Sure. And they very likely don't exist. I was just asking why they couldn't, from a theological standpoint. Not why someone doesn't believe in them (I don't either.)
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3. (true) Science has discovered that the earth is actually the center of the universe. Everything rotates around the earth. Google "axis of evil". Geocentrism is true. Carl Sagan was wrong that we are in a backwoods "nothing special" far-out corner of a galaxy.
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I haven't researched this enough to really be able to comment on it. But say that's true. So what? I can see how that might make alien existence improbable. But I don't see how it makes it theologically impossible.
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4. #3 actually makes sense, because Earth is the planet on which God took HUMAN FLESH and died on the cross. The second Person of the Holy Trinity has a human nature now in Heaven. He can't take on any other additional alien nature(s). He can't have a glorified human body AND a glorified green alien body with 15 tentacles at the same time. That would be metaphysically impossible; an actual contradiction like a square circle.
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I agree with this. This is the first relevant theological point that I can make sense of (the other points, even if true, are really probabilistic claims rather than definitive theological ones as far as I can see it.) However, this doesn't rule out the existence of alien life, only its redeemability. Angels couldn't be redeemed either, but they certainly exist, despite clearly having souls and eternal destinies.
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5. And no, the other two Persons in the Holy Trinity aren't standing around in some kind of waiting room "still available" to do what the Second Person of the Holy Trinity did on Earth to save mankind in 33 AD. Jesus created the world, He is the LOGOS, the Word. It's difficult to comprehend the Trinity to any degree, but let's just say that it wasn't a coincidence that the LOGOS, the Second Person became man and died for our sins. Jesus didn't lose a divine "coin toss", nor did He draw the "short straw".
The Trinity is kind of like a fire: you have light, heat, and consuming action. Those 3 things go together. Where you have "fire", you have all 3. The light isn't the heat, and the heat isn't the consuming action. But there is only 1 fire. You can't say, "Well, last time the HEAT of the fire warmed my food; this time let's have the LIGHT of the fire warm my food." It doesn't work that way.
I agree here as well, but again, this only suggests that it is certainly a theological impossibility that aliens could be redeemed, if they did in fact exist. So where I'm at right now, barring any further argument to the contrary, is that aliens very likely don't exist, I don't see any reason to believe they exist, but if it turned out that they did, in fact, exist, it wouldn't challenge my Catholic faith, because I see no contradiction. I'll grant that something like geocentrism, and the belief that the earth is the center of the universe, does seem to decrease the probability that aliens exist, but even if that's affirmed, aliens still *could* exist, and it would still make sense that the planet humans live on was the center since that was the place to which God sent a redeemer.
But I agree that an "alien Christ" wouldn't be possible. And trying to posit that possibility would lead to all sorts of heresies.
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