Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!psuvax1!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: jeffjs@ihlpb.att.com (Jeffrey Jay Sargent) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Salvation for ALL! Message-ID: Date: 30 Oct 89 01:06:01 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Reply-To: procsy@cbnewsd.ATT.COM (Jeff Sargent) Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 14 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu C.S. Lewis deals with the question of salvation for extraterrestrial species in his essay "Religion and Rocketry", printed in his _The World's Last Night_ collection. He argues several points about it, notably that with the human race in its fallen state, it would be (in one of several ways) nothing but a disaster if we met another race, especially an unfallen one; but he ends up by quoting some Christian sage of old (I forget who) who asked whether supposed earthly non-human species such as satyrs would be saved, and answered his own question by saying that we could wait on that till we knew that there in fact were any such creatures. Lewis says the same is true of the question of the salvation of extraterrestrials. -- -- Jeff Sargent att!ihlpb!jeffjs (UUCP), jeffjs@ihlpb.att.com (Internet) AT&T Bell Laboratories, IH 5A-433, Naperville, IL (312) 979-5284 "A bad company corrupts good character."