Have you noticed lately the upsurge in reports about UFOs—again? Unidentified. Flying. Objects.
It is a topic that has come and gone throughout the years, and for whatever reason the videos never get any clearer, the conspiracies always seem to point at a government cover-up, and no one ever comes to a coherent explanation of just what some people are seeing in the skies at night (or sometimes in broad daylight).
In fact, just the other evening I watched a documentary where some “scientists” affiliated with NASA went over some mysterious UFO videos taken by their astronauts on previous missions.
Aside from the giddiness of a couple of the scientists over the prospects that alien visitors could be patrolling the earth, nothing was concluded, except that a few of the UFO clips could be attributed to ice crystals, weather balloons, or defects in the camera lens or film.
But, this all begs the question: Are humans alone in the universe?
It is a question fraught with irony, if not intrigue, since some tend to want to believe that we are alone, and not give God his due.
By this I mean that the secularist/atheist ilk in human society want to have nothing to do with God or give Him credit for creating anything.
So they poo-poo, marginalize, or attempt to insult their way out of any consideration that we are not alone, simply because God’s existence immediately renders an answer that they do not want to hear.
More on that shortly.
The irony continues, though, when one sees or listens to a liberal “scientist” that is giddy about the prospect of extra-terrestrials, since it is hoped that being visited by an ET “will fundamentally transform human civilization” in ways unknown before, as stated by one of the scientists in the documentary.
Really? Visitors from some distant galaxy will totally transform humanity? How so? He never explained.
So, on the one hand, reject the reality that God exists, which would mean that humans are not alone in the universe, and accept, as fact, that alien beings—who are speculated to be so much smarter than human beings—are among us, and we will all be fundamentally transformed for the better, it is assumed. Got it.
For several reasons, such a rationale does not fly, once one starts examining the arguments, with the first being that God does exist, He is the Creator of everyone and everything, which would include the alien visitors that no one has confirmed actually do exist.
How do we know this; that God exists?
Because God has revealed himself, not only through his creation, but ultimately in the person of Jesus Christ.
The Bible states, “The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork” (Ps 19:1).
The magnificence of the created order, its vastness and beauty, as well as its intricate design informs the intelligent observer—that is not attempting to suppress the truth of God (Rom 1:18)—that a magnificent designer, with a limitless amount of power, has finely tuned something wholly other than himself for the express purpose of bringing glory to himself.
Creation, in other words, did not just happen, despite the contentions of some to the contrary.
There is a Creator and that Creator is none other than God himself.
The Bible goes on to state, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not anything made that was made…And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth” (John 1:1-3, 14).
The Creator of all that we see and experience—as living, breathing, human beings—was none other than God incarnate in the person of Jesus Christ, who is the Word of God.
When God spoke “In the beginning” (Gen 1:1), which brought about the created order, from nothing, those words were personified in the person of Jesus.
The writer of the book of Hebrews tells us that Jesus “is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power” (Heb 1:3).
Jesus, as the incarnate Word of God, naturally expresses the character (Gr. χαρακτηρ) of God, and a result of that expression is seen in his ability to hold the universe together by mere command.
Although the typical secularist or atheist, along with many UFO aficionados, cringe over the reality that Jesus is God—given their rejection of God’s revelation, either in print or in deed—the fact remains that God has revealed himself in His Son.
Hence, humans are not alone in the universe just from the fact of God’s existence in the universe.
God not only preceded the existence of the universe, but now is omnipresent, although distinct from, the very universe he created.
King David wrote,
Where shall I go from your Spirit? Or where shall I flee from your presence?
If I ascend to heaven, you are there! If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there!
If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,
even there your hand shall lead me, and your right hand shall hold me.
If I say, “Surely the darkness shall cover me, and the light about me be night,”
even the darkness is not dark to you; the night is bright as the day, for darkness is as light with you. (Ps 139:7-12).
But, does God’s existence necessarily tell us what UFOs are?
Let’s explore that question in the next article.
