Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: st0o+@andrew.cmu.edu (Steven Timm) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Extra-terrestrial worlds Message-ID: Date: 7 Oct 90 01:06:35 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Lines: 20 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu The closest reference I can think of in the Bible to the topic of other worlds is the first chapter of Job, where we read that the "sons of God" came to present themselves before the Lord and Satan also came among them. Satan says that he has come from walking up and down the earth, it could be construed that the other sons of God were from other planets. This gives trouble if you wish to interpret Genesis 6 consistently because here the "sons of God" take wives of the daughters of men. I have seen supermarket tabloids use this as evidence that extra-terrestrial sex did at one time occur. I don't agree with this view. Seventh-day Adventist theologians would tend to believe that the gathering of the sons of God *was* a gathering of extra-terrestrials in Job 1. This leads us to believe that other worlds are indeed inhabited, but unfallen. The atonement of Christ was needed only for this world. It served another purpose in letting the unfallen universe see the results of sin--what sin would lead those who practiced it to do--to kill God, the source of love. Steve