Could God have given a savior to another world in another galaxy?

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Does it make sense that they too are saved, but by a Savior from a planet they’ve never heard of? Is that fair to them?
 
RKO said:
Does it make sense that they too are saved, but by a Savior from a planet they’ve never heard of? Is that fair to them?
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Everything that God does is fair and just and good and holy.
 
If there are other intelligent species out there, we haven’t been told what God’s plan is for their salvation. But I think we can be sure that He has one.
 
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Everything that God does is fair and just and good and holy.
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I failed to make my point clearly. I don’t doubt anything you said. I wonder if it’s fair for US to assume that if there is life on some planet across the universe, that they are saved because of Jesus. Would God not give them their own example of his love and eternal salvation?

Edit- Jesus could be the Savior on another planet too, but manifested perhaps there as he was here. Maybe I just answered my own question. As in, the Second Person of the trinity is the savior. Here on earth we knew him as a poor Jewish carpenter. who knows what he would be elsewhere?
 
Almighty G*d is Omnipotent and Omniscient. Being all powerful and all knowing, He can do anything anywhere He pleases at any time!
By definition, He can even make science fiction a reality if He wants to.
 
RKO said:
I failed to make my point clearly. I don’t doubt anything you said. I wonder if it’s fair for US to assume that if there is life on some planet across the universe, that they are saved because of Jesus. Would God not give them their own example of his love and eternal salvation?

Edit- Jesus could be the Savior on another planet too, but manifested perhaps there as he was here. Maybe I just answered my own question. As in, the Second Person of the trinity is the savior. Here on earth we knew him as a poor Jewish carpenter. who knows what he would be elsewhere?
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I’ve thought about this too. I suspect that if there is another fallen species, then Christ’s single sacrifice would work for them as well. Whether God would handle this in the way you describe, or by revealing salvation in some other way, is hard to say. But this would be along the lines of saying that, in spiritual matters, such a species and humanity are essentially the same. If not, then if God did the same thing over there as He did here, then the Son would have (at least) 3 natures - which I’m not sure is consistent with Catholicism. Or, I suppose, He could just handle them in a completely different way.
 
Interesting discussion.

If there are creatures with souls on distant worlds, I see no reason to expect they would have body forms similar to humans. They could be quite different, as different as sea anemones are from us. If so, are they, in some sense, created in the image and likeness of God?
 
cjforJesus said:
Jesus is the only begotten Son of God.I doubt there is anything out in space.Scientists have been beaming signals out there for decades and no response.
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I tend to agree that there isn’t much else out there, but I am excited by the idea. But who needs aliens when we have plenty of people on our own planet that are from outer-space themselves! Hehe 😉
 
St_Stoli said:
I tend to agree that there isn’t much else out there, but I am excited by the idea. But who needs aliens when we have plenty of people on our own planet that are from outer-space themselves! Hehe 😉
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Haha I remember those people from the 70s! We all had our heads up in the clouds.lol.
 
RKO said:
Edit- Jesus could be the Savior on another planet too, but manifested perhaps there as he was here. Maybe I just answered my own question. As in, the Second Person of the trinity is the savior.
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Be careful with this word “manifested.”

If you’re asking whether or not the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity could theoretically elect to take on a nature in addition to that of an earthly human being, the answer is yes. However, it is De fide dogma that the person of Christ subsists in** two** natures in a hypostatic union: human and divine.

But I should point out that, supposing that there is sentient life in the universe aside from here on earth, one could argue that such life can be considered human in some sense.

Our possessing a body and a spiritual soul, our ability to engage in rational thought, and our ability to make decisions are key components of our human nature. Insofar as an alien should share in these qualities, they would be human. These qualities, in fact, would be a direct result of their having been created in God’s image.
 
InNomineDomini said:
Our possessing a body and a spiritual soul, our ability to engage in rational thought, and our ability to make decisions are key components of our human nature. Insofar as an alien should share in these qualities, they would be human. These qualities, in fact, would be a direct result of their having been created in God’s image.
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I was thinking also that our likeness to God is in our ability to love and forgive.
 
You might like to read some of C S Lewis’ science fiction books on this subject, where we are considered the dark planet as we have fallen. Other planets exist where the intelligent beings have not fallen. All we know is that God is omnipotent and as the creator of the universe loves all things; that their continued existence is contingent on his awareness and he loves us as no one else can.
Many imaginative thoughts can amuse us and while away the time when we could be considering the reality of our world and its challenges. But good fun nevertheless. A valid conclusion will alas allude us.
 
Maybe we have been visited by ET at the time of Jesus and they carried the news to their planet. 🙂 🤷
 
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I failed to make my point clearly. I don’t doubt anything you said. I wonder if it’s fair for US to assume that if there is life on some planet across the universe, that they are saved because of Jesus. Would God not give them their own example of his love and eternal salvation?

Very likely he did and may do so again and again if there are many fallen races throughout the universe. That’s a big if. What if the whole universe exists for us and for us alone? That’s a big if too. The biggest if of all is, what if there are many Mothers of God like Mary Queen of Heaven? Wouldn’t there have to be if Jesus was born on many planets?

Sounds improbable to me. 🤷
 
George_Stegmeir said:
Almighty G*d is Omnipotent and Omniscient. Being all powerful and all knowing, He can do anything anywhere He pleases at any time!
By definition, He can even make science fiction a reality if He wants to.
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If God wanted he could make Superman a real person. But the angels and saints are the real life super heroes with God-given super powers.

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Jesus could have died for all intelligent beings. We don’t know what resides in this Galaxy in terms of earth-like planets or even if intelligent life arose on any life bearing planets because we’re stuck in our solar system until worm-hole travel technology comes about.

Since intelligence only came about once on earth, it may not have arisen on other earth like planets.
 
If not, then if God did the same thing over there as He did here, then the Son would have (at least) 3 natures - which I’m not sure is consistent with Catholicism.
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Not three natures. One nature is divine and the other is a composite of soul and body.
All human beings share one nature. We would also share our nature with aliens, soul and body, although our genus, species, race, whatever you want to call it, would be different.

I see no reason why the Son of God couldn’t take up to himself several or many people from many worlds.
God makes the rules. If this is ok with God who are we to argue. 😃
 
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