Would Sentient Alien Life From Other Star Systems Or Galaxies Go Against Catholic Moral Theology?

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First and foremost when speaking about sentient beings or aliens here I’m not speaking or referring to aliens or fallen angels that got thrown out of heaven with Satan (Lucifer).

Second point I want to make very clear is that I don’t care to hone my focus on anything beyond the footing of this world Terra-nova where by God is first in my life.

However; I do have an open mind in as much that I am not entitled to say what God can or cannot create in His wondrous and unfathomable creation seen and unseen, visible and invisible.

Are humans so arrogant to believe despite everything written in scripture that we are the ((“only”)) sentient beings created by God in this vast immense universe?

Self-estimation when relying on pure human logic often mixed with pride doesn’t make for an equatable litmus paper test.

If there is one sure quality amongst others about God that He has plainly revealed to us is that He loves to create. We see this all around us in plain sight.

I have always wondered (“if”) there are distant star systems that can sustain sentient life where God puts an extension of Himself creating souls whereby in a matter of speaking the Story of Adam and Eve with the Tree of Knowledge replays itself.

Can such be possible in God’s vast creation? Or are we the only souls in God’s entire Creation with a vacant Universe void of sentient life before us?

I can’t quote the exact source but I do recall a number of decades ago where a famous well versed British journalist named David Frost had a private interview with Pope John Paul II and asked what he thought about sentient life in the universe.

The Pope’s answer was (“No one can put a box around God and place limitations on His creation”)

On a final note: I think its OK to wonder in awe about God’s creation but not to lose focus on our Catholic faith and the reason God put us here, to die to our fallen human nature and the obsession we have with five primitive senses that lead us to sin.
 
With the possibility of a billion billion planets I would think it’s highly probable other life forms exist. Whether they are sentient, or more or less advanced than us, who knows? As to what this would do to catholic theology I dont know. I suppose it would be interesting if their lives followed as ours, if Christ had to sacrifice himself for them as well.

Sarah x 🙂
 
atheistgirl said:
With the possibility of a billion billion planets I would think it’s highly probable other life forms exist. Whether they are sentient, or more or less advanced than us, who knows? As to what this would do to catholic theology I dont know. I suppose it would be interesting if their lives followed as ours, if Christ had to sacrifice himself for them as well.

Sarah x 🙂
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More or less advanced in what? Science? Technology?

Science and Technology can easily become a false God in the minds of many.
 
centurionguard said:
More or less advanced in what? Science? Technology?

Science and Technology can easily become a false God in the minds of many.
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They could be where we were a million years ago, or they could be where we will be a million years from now. They might even be a completely different form of live altogether, one we cant conceive of.

Sarah x 🙂
 
Since extra-terrestrial life has yet to be found (despite my willingness to admit that it very likely exists), I cannot help but wonder what it must’ve been like in the first century AD not knowing that microbial life exists. Today we take bacteria, fungi, protists, and even quasi-life forms like viruses and prions for granted, but could you imagine the sorts of theological arguments that would have arisen between the Early Church Fathers if someone had suggested to them that there exist life forms so tiny that the human eye cannot see them, and that they actually cause many of the diseases we see in our human existence?

Just some food for thought.
 
Of course it wouldn’t make any difference. God does not contradict himself. That’s all there is to it.
 
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