Rare Earth Hypothesis

[thoughtful (Valerie (non-scientist))]

@dga471

But “cosmos” does not refer to the whole universe ; it refers to the world of people that the Bible is written for.

It can mean “whole universe” - Strong's Greek: 2889. κόσμος (kosmos) -- order, the world

@dga471

If there are aliens in distant galaxies,

You have to take apart this argument before positing there could be aliens. I ruled them out based on my definition of the Greek word. Here it is again. Once you do, then we can discuss You may define it differently in which case we’d just be talking past each other, but it’d still be interesting if you find a logical flaw there.

@thoughtful

God loves the cosmos as a whole. If there is any intelligent life on other planets that has free will, Jesus died for them. They must be able to believe on him, so there also has to be a mechanism for knowing in order to believe. We have scripture and historical evidence. So not only would we need to find evidence of intelligent life, we’d need to find evidence that they’ve already communicated with earth. Plus, the Bible seems to indicate Adam’s sin only affects Adamah [earth]. So any other intelligent life may not have had a fall or been affected by it. But God says He gave His son for the cosmos. That rules out other life unaffected by a fall.