Can Aliens & Christianity Coexist?

Day 1 of 3: Faith in The Unknown

And God said, “Let there be lights in the dome of the sky to separate the day from the night and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and years, and let there be lights in the dome of the sky to give light upon the earth.” And it was so. God made the two great lights—the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night—and the stars. God set them in the dome of the sky to give light upon the earth, to rule over the day and over the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good.
-Genesis: 1:14-18 (NRSVUE)

According to NPR, a little over a week ago, three retired military pilots testified before Congress about sightings of UAP’s or in military speak, unidentified areal phenomena. What the military calls UAP’s we civilians call UFO’s or unidentified flying objects. In addition to the sightings, the US government did confirm that there were “non-human biologics” found at crash sites. The military has declassified a few videos of pilots recording UAP sightings in flight.

As a clergy person and as a chaplain, I can imagine this news, for some, creates a major crisis of faith. UAP testimonies before Congress give us a prime opportunity to examine and confront our relationship with God. I can’t imagine a Creator who stops creating. Nor can I imagine God’s love and value in my life suddenly disappearing. I can’t think of a better time to have a devotional that encourages further exploration of our faith.

Christianity is positioned in the only place that it can be, Earth. Looking at Genesis we can imagine the writer’s perspective in the first creation story. I imagine they are from the earth looking out into the heavens otherwise known today as the sky. As I read this passage my imagination takes me to seeing the sky as a dome, and then suddenly the moon appears, and then the sun appears, and further separation is happening until we recognize day, night, seasons, and so on. I imagine a day in God’s time, could be thousands of years in the relative concept of time for us and our Genesis writer…

Annanda Barclay

Day 1 of 3: Faith in The Unknown

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