God's plan for Earth vs Extraterrestrial Interference
Dec 22, 2019 22:43:02 GMT -5
Post by alfonzo on Dec 22, 2019 22:43:02 GMT -5
Is God allowing Extra-terrestrials to run Rampant on Earth?
First, the term extraterrestrial in this context is referring to material creatures who are thought to dwell in the material universe. It is not including spirit creatures who dwell in the spirit realm such as holy angels, or rebel angels. There interference is kept under control and their attempts to ruin mankind have been thwarted. In short, God doesn't take too kindly to creatures who oppose his will and keeps them in check. So when I speak of Extraterrestrials it is about material creatures who are imagined to dwell on other planets and who share mankind's reasoning ability and whom atheists imagine have crossed the unimaginable distances to to Earth with evil intentions. .
Sound far fetched? Well, there are actually those who claim that Earth has been invaded by such Extraterrestrials who are totally in charge of Earth's affairs. Actually, the idea seems to echo the Biblical statements that Satan and his demons do influence human society in negative ways. However, the idea involving extraterrestrial interference does not put a limit to that interference. In the case of Satan and his demons, we are told that they are condemned criminals which are on death row and will be executed.
However, the scenarios described by sci fi writers and those who believe in extraterrestrial interference in Earth's affairs are completely different. In these hypothetical situations we sometimes have technologically superior alien civilizations subjugating mankind and maintaining it in a hopeless condition under their rule. To these writers there is no God who deeply cares about the Earth or or who sets limits on interference that goes contrary to his prophecies.
So from a Christian standpoint such a scenario can never become a reality. After all, why would God allow such a negative interference on his Earth from material creatures whom he created and placed at unimaginably vast distances from us for a reason? In short, those who take the scriptures seriously, cannot envision any alien race running rampant on God's Earth and being allowed to have a helpless mankind at its total mercy. That would mean that God's clearly-expressed plan for his Earth, to make it a global paradise, would have been thwarted, and there is no power in our material universe or outside of it capable of thwarting the almighty.
Isaiah 43:13
"Even from eternity I am He, And there is none who can deliver out of My hand; I act and who can reverse it?"
Isaiah 14:27
For the LORD Almighty has purposed, and who can thwart him? His hand is stretched out, and who can turn it back?
"Even from eternity I am He, And there is none who can deliver out of My hand; I act and who can reverse it?"
Isaiah 14:27
For the LORD Almighty has purposed, and who can thwart him? His hand is stretched out, and who can turn it back?
But someone might point out that he does allow many things that are not in harmony with his ultimate purpose for the Earth to happen, things such as wars, injustices, plagues, soaring crime etcetera.
But as mentioned at the outset, such things are described as temporary and as serving a specific purpose for the resolution of the issues raised at Eden. In contrast, the scenario which some sci-fi writers depict and the possibility of alien invasions entertained by physicists, are ones which completely go contrary to the biblical prophecies which speak of a promised paradise Earth .
2 Pet 3:13
But in keeping with his promise we are looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth, where righteousness dwells
But in keeping with his promise we are looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth, where righteousness dwells