Thoughts on aliens and Jesus

    Have you ever looked into the sky at night and realized how infinitely insignificant earth is in the grand scale of existence?  If you really try to wrap your mind around your place in the universe, it can lead to questions about the possible existence of extraterrestrial life.  

    So if we were to do a strictly statistical analysis of the possibility of there being a self-aware spirit filled carbon based entity with some sort of civilization in our universe, the answer may shock you.

  

     To start with look at the number of stars, which could fuel habitable planets, in our galaxy.  The Milky Way galaxy alone contains 200 Billion stars.  So if we were to make a generous estimate that out of the 200 Billion stars in our galaxy there is a 0.000 000 000 1% chance (one billionth of a percent chance) that one of them has a planet that supports an alien civilization you will see that there would be 200 possible civilizations.  So there are 100 Billion galaxies in our universe, and in them there are a total of 10^24 stars (thats 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 stars).  Now, if we do the same calculation for the chance of alien civilizations on all the stars in our universe, we get a staggering  100 Trillion possible civilizations in our universe.  Even if we backed off of our generosity and chanced it at 1 Trillionth of a percent chance for life, there would still be 100 Billion possible civilizations.  Thats roughly 14 alien civilizations for every person on earth.  

     You can be an agnostic and argue that this is all speculation and that we are the sole and divine creation of God and we are not meant to know things like this.  And for the most part that argument is valid.  Truly, this is all speculation, but it does make you think about what is really in the night sky when you look.

     Now this belief in the possibility of life on other planets does not contradict my belief in Jesus as my Lord and Savior.  In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God, John 1:1.  The Word of God is the same and will never change regardless what way it is conveyed.  Jesus is the Word of God, the most perfect way for us to be shown the glory of God.  Jesus is Gods way of manifesting his living word in a way that best reaches us.  Since we can not be in the presence of God ourselves,  Jesus came to earth and became the membrane between us and God.  An analogy would be to think of us as a baby in an incubator which has the built-in reach in sleeve/glove, and God being our caregiver.  For our caregiver to handle the us inside the incubator, they must use the protective gloves to protect us from the themselves.  Jesus is the gloves.  God reached down to earth with his word and manifest it to us as Jesus.  So if God's Word is never changing and universal, shouldn't Jesus apply to the other possible civilizations also.  All at once he died for all the sins in the universe for all eternity.  The Savior of the universe may be called something different on another planet, but the word of God doesn't change.  But, Jesus rose from the dead 2,000 years ago on earth, did that happen billions of times, on billions of planets?  First I would say that time doesn't exist, and second I would say that the names may have changed, but the true essence of the word of God has not.