Close encounters of the third kind!

Is life possible on other planets, if so would God have created this as well?

Yes it’s possible. Is it likely, I’m not sure? I think I’m much more open to the idea of little green men than most Christians are, but the universe is 98 billion light years across. Since God is about his glory, then I just don’t see any reason to rule out the possibility that he has other intelligent life forms on other planets in the distant universe worshiping him. The reality is its speculation. The Bible doesn’t address the possibility in any fashion, so there isn’t much point in putting energy into it from a theological perspective. From a scientific perspective I agree with the spending of money to search for other life as this serves as a way for us to understand God’s universe better.

There is an interesting hypocrisy I find in many Christians regarding this issue. When it comes to our own testimony about God we say things like “always tell your testimony”, or “no one can deny what God has done in your life”, or “your testimony is your great witnessing tool”, so that we build up testimony about a God no one can see as a valid argument to others as to why we believe in him. Then when we hear people give testimony of alien encounters we think they are crazy, superstitious, or making it up. What’s the difference? Our testimonies often sound just as crazy to people who don’t believe as those people preaching about aliens sound to us. Now I certainly believe that there are a ton of other reasons to believe in God than a person’s testimony, but when we close ourselves off to possibilities that God has not closed off himself, I think there is something contradictory about that.