Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!ginosko!aplcen!haven!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: credmond@watmath.waterloo.edu (Chris Redmond) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Salvation for ALL! Message-ID: Date: 27 Oct 89 06:42:09 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 17 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu [In article smith_c@ncsatl.uucp (Spawn of a Jewish Carpenter) asked whether Christ died for non-human intellegent species. I commented that I could imagine a number of arrangements, and it would be hard to know which God had chosen until we have met a few such species. --clh] Surely a member of any species only needs salvation if sin has occurred -- in traditional theological terms, if a "fall" has separated that species from God to begin with. Do we have any reason to believe that Intelligent Species X, when we meet it on Alpha Centauri, will be in a fallen condition? Seems to me this is one of the issues C. S. Lewis deals with in his theological science fiction. CAR credmond@watmath