By Ehud Would

 

Full disclosure: I regard the present needfulness of redress on the subject of E.T.s  testament to nothing if not the bovine stupidity of the age.

But the impetus for this piece comes by way of the knucklehead plan to storm Area 51 in September. Which has already been endorsed by 1.5 million people.

I mean, really, of all things to inspire minuteman action against Leviathan — not the functional nullification of the Bill of Rights, taxation sans representation, nor the wholesale war on our faith and folk conducted by the feds, but the desperate wish that Star Trek was based on a true story? This is criminal insanity. Peak stupid.

Whether or not this call to arms stems completely from Joe Rogan’s recent interview of Bob Lazar, the vectors of Rogan’s DMT-addled audience and the Ufology crowd overlap precisely. And disinfo agent that Lazar is, we have ample enough reason to conclude the whole #stormarea51 thing is nothing but another psyop on the American people to further undermine the Christian worldview and distract from the real alien threat on our Southern border and in our cities. All of which only underscores the body-snatching which has transpired in terms of faith.

So if #stormarea51 is the impetus, the underlying reason for this article is redress of the apostasy of the American people. Fact is, belief in aliens is no longer confined to atheists, Mormons, and schizophrenics. Gone are the days when the name Erik Von Daaniken and his alien astronaut theory were confined to the sci fi section and dime novel racks. Panspermia is since become the official orthodoxy of Academia and, more’s the pity, the culture at large.

And as with every other gust of zeitgeist, the politically correct churches have embraced a cosmology which expressly makes room for little green men. They have even coined a theological category for it — Exotheology. Incomprehensible, yet true.

Even if freshly retooled to approximate Christian lingo, the core refrain is quite old:

“So, why don’t you believe God created alien civilizations on other planets? Isn’t it possible? Wouldn’t it be a tremendous waste of space if He didn’t? Don’t you think it’s a little arrogant to assume we are alone — that we’re so special? That’s just the sort of arrogance which caused Lucifer’s fall, you know? God is bigger than your imagination.”

This, every catechumen should recognize as the old “You can’t put God in a box” demand for relativism and agnosticism.

But let’s back up.

Irrespective of any perfunctory claim of confluence with Christianity, this Stargate cosmology simply cannot be reconciled to the Christian worldview.

Firstly, because it presupposes God’s Word to be fundamentally misleading on the nature of the cosmos. For Genesis describes the creation of earth and man as having taken a week, with flora and fauna made and organized on different days while the rest of the planets were created in an instant without pause or note of any creatures on those respective planets. By comparison, all the other planets were created as an afterthought, or footnote to earth. Or as Genesis 1:15-17 has it, “to shine upon the earth”. Not to mention the fact that “all of creation groaned” until the coming of Christ and the devil was cast down to earth. All of which depicts a strictly earth-centric creation and salvation history wherein God gives nothing like commensurate attention to any other planet.

In light of which, the alien postulate can only be entertained by overt dismissal of the biblical witness.

And this the Christian simply cannot do. Because dismissal of God’s own testimony as fundamentally misleading is to spurn the bible as lies, and to tacitly call God a liar.

So to whatever degree someone presumes to wed the E.T. theory to Christianity, they do so only by redefinition of Christianity; and that by assumption of a god other than the Christian God. All of which ends in functional atheism.

Secondarily, Deuteronomy 4:19 warns us against precisely this temptation to worship the astral bodies. And when awe at their number and majesty is said to convey something contrary to the cosmology taught in scripture, and implicitly overrule the same, ‘worship’ is exactly what we’re talking about. For rather than a harmony of special and natural revelations, the E.T. thesis exalts the stars and planets in authority over God’s Word. Thus making it apparent for idolatry little different from horoscopes.

Thirdly, there is no logical place for E.T.s to fit in the Christian cosmos. Think of it: were there intelligent alien species on other planets, “the Second Adam” Christ’s “once and for all” sacrifice (Heb.7:27; 9:24-28; 10:10; 10:12; 10:14; 1 Pet.3:18)  would not apply to them because they are not sons of Adam. And since His sacrifice will never be repeated, there is no like propitiation for E.T.s. Therefore, we could not preach the gospel to them as if it applied to them.

And because Christians are bound to God’s Word as “the only rule of faith and practice”, even the notion of a similar work of redemption on their worlds could never be acknowledged by us as true anyway.

Even if imagined as unfallen species, having never eaten of their respective tree of the knowledge of good and evil, their divergent histories would put them at odds with Christian doctrine too. For whatever they knew of God from that alien vantage, apart from the revelation given to earth, would also be inadmissible to the Christian worldview which is informed univocally by the biblical revelation of Christ. Because, on God’s own authority, there is no religion to be acknowledged from any other source than His Word, the bible. “To the law and the testimony. If they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.” (Isa. 8:20)

And if there be no possible correspondence between us and the imagined unfallen E.T.s on the basis of God’s special revelation (enunciated entirely in the context of earth, mind you), then their existence simply does not cohere with the Christian universe as God has revealed it in His Word. And they therefore cannot exist.

Fifthly, none of the abductions or visitations by supposed E.T.s have yielded any message, stated or surmised, remotely friendly to a Christian worldview: various flavors notwithstanding, these entities generally reinforce Atheistic Materialism or Pantheism. Which does not prove their identity as aliens, only as powerful and malevolent entities who uniformly dispose men to a dismissal of the biblical framework. Such, if taken as more than hallucination, students of scripture will readily recognize as fallen angels. Demons doing what demons are wont to do — to undermine the throne of Christ and lead men astray.

Sixthly, since such a theory is not derived of scripture, the only reason it becomes a topic of consideration at all is byway of certain pagan myths of “gods from other worlds” who colonized the earth in some remote past, trance communiques of cult leaders like Joseph Smith, Ellen G. White, and William Sadler, the imagination of Materialist philosophers, sci fi fabulists, and archeological studies filtered through Materialist presuppositions. Howsoever compelling that recombinant reinforcement may seem to the carnal mind, it all stems from various strains of heathenism, in juxtaposition to the cosmology revealed in God’s Word.

Seventhly, when someone says, they believe in aliens because God’s creation of so many other planets would otherwise be a colossal waste, all they are ultimately saying is that they refuse to believe in a God who would do something different than they would. Which is nothing but crafting a god in one’s own image. Unabashed idolatry.

As for the inductive evidence for E.T.s:  no one is saying there aren’t UFO sightings or Abduction and Visitation experiences. There are. But UFOs are entirely explainable in terms of experimental aircraft (Some of us are old enough to remember when the yet classified Stealth Bomber was routinely reported as a UFO, just as its conceptual offspring, the Triangle craft is today.) and atmospheric phenomena (ball lightning and the like), not to mention the possibility of demonic activity. Whereas all Abduction/Visitation experiences are easily accounted for by Sleep Paralysis, mental illness, or the millennia old phenomenon of Incubus and Succubus — i.e. demonic — oppressions.

As Fox Mulder famously said, “I want to believe.” It is a fundamentally religious matter.

All else aside, this topic is pregnant with utmost irony. The timing of this fresh renovation of doctrine is uncanny. The visceral need in the popular mind to make room for an “other” in the form of off-world aliens coincides with a denial (or deferral?) of belief in aliens in all other capacities. Those denying the existence of alien races and peoples on this earth despite ubiquitous reference to them in scripture (Heb.11:34, for instance), are the very ones pressing the notion of alien races on other worlds despite their absence in scripture.

So this #stormarea51 movement redirecting the verve which rightly belongs to our national, ethnic, and cultural borders into battle around fictitious E.T.s is an obvious subversion of priorities. Therein your natural affections are being nullified. And not entirely unlike so many sci fi flicks, its purpose is only to prepare you for culling by hostile aliens, albeit not from space.

Forget Area 51 and aliens from other planets. World government is colonizing your land with actual aliens who intend to wipe you off the planet. Don’t be food for them. Don’t be an idiot.