Hi Paul

It depends on whether you build your theology from the bottom up or from the top down. From the bottom up you can say Jesus was this amazing teacher and maybe he was the most amazing teacher with the deepest understanding of what people were like and how they can be the best kindest and wisest people they can be. And yes, even a better teacher than Buddha or Marx. But this won’t tell you how he could possibly have anything to say to silicon based lifeforms in galaxies far far away.

A theology built from the top down is very different. If we believe the bible’s claim that ‘all things were created through him, things in the heavens (the universe and beyond) or on the earth … without him nothing was made that has been made’ Then whatever alien civilisation exist, if any exist, were created by the same Son of God one who created us.

Somehow we all need to go from our first encounter with the man Jesus and building a understanding of him ‘from the bottom up’ to bowing our knee to his mind-boggling claims about himself, his total respect for the bible, and commissioning his followers to spread the word (and start writing a whole new set of scriptures).

Then we can build a theology, from the top down, that has such an exalted view of Jesus Christ the Son of God creator of everything, that alien civilisations across 125 billion galaxies, no matter how numerous or how advanced, would not change who we believe Jesus really is.

Deacon