With the vastness of the universe and the greatness of God, do you think there are human like beings in other solar systems?

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Question: With the vastness of the universe and the greatness of God, do you think there are human like beings in other solar systems?

If so, would they have the same Word from God as we do? Or would their Word of God be different since their world is different? Not that the meaning of the Word would be different but just their level of evolvement may be different. For example, if they had no Middle East/birth place of a Messiah, or were more advanced beings than we are, etc. requiring a different wording of the Scriptures. Would Jesus have appeared and made the sacrifice for them?

PP

ATP: PP, these are great questions and ones that people often wonder about.

For a variety of Biblical reasons, it is my strong opinion that there are no human like beings in other solar systems.

In Genesis we are told the reason for the existence of the stars and planets:

Then God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night, and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years, and let them be for lights in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth”; and it was so.

The clear message of the Bible’s account of creation is that human beings on earth were and are God’s special focus. All of the heavens exist because of God’s focus on human life on earth. In fact we are told that one day heaven and earth will be destroyed:

2 Peter 3:10 But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, in which the heavens will pass away with a roar and the elements will be destroyed with intense heat, and the earth and its works will be burned up.

While this is to be the fate of both the heavens and the earth, only of human beings on earth is it written that there is a salvation story, let alone any existence of other beings.

The book of Revelation in its final two chapters at the end of the Bible tells us that there will be a new heaven and a new earth, but only the new earth is mentioned as being as inhabited, and that with human beings and with God himself. That is singularly striking all by itself: God’s dwelling place, we are told, will be with men, that is, with us.

In addition, the Bible is clear that human beings are made in the image of God. When we receive Christ as our Lord and Savior we become not just his physical children--as all human beings are in a creative sense--we become his spiritual children, “saved” as the Bible describes it, part of God’s forever family.

What kind of being could possibly be higher in creation order than that of a being that is made in the very image of God and is called and is in reality a son or daughter of God? None.

Last, a core reason for believing there are no other beings out there on other planets, has to do with Christ’s death and resurrection which you alluded to in your question when you asked, Would Jesus have appeared and made the sacrifice for them?

We are told at least 3 times in the book of Hebrews that Christ died once for all. Referring to Christ as our Great High Priest, Hebrews 7:27 says:

(He) does not need daily, like (those other) high priests, to offer up sacrifices, first for his own sins, and then for the sins of the people, because this He did once for all when He offered up Himself.

Christ’s death was done once, here on earth, never to be repeated here or anywhere else. And if there were “human like” beings on other planets, they would be sinners in need of a Savior, because the Bible tells us that all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. But Christ’s death and resurrection took place here, never to be repeated again here or anywhere else.

Furthermore, every implication from the Bible speaking of Christ’s redemption plan for human beings, is that those who are to be redeemed are those who have descended from Adam, the first human being of earth.

For these reasons it seems clear to me that there are no human like beings out there in the cosmos on other planets in other solar systems.