Out of the silent planet

 

I didn´t know Seventh Day Adventism was a "science fiction" religion? OK, I actually suspected it, but this is a confirmation of sorts. According to the video above, intelligent physical-biological aliens do exist on other planets but they are unfallen (!) and therefore have no contact with Earth. 

The Bible never mentions what *we* would call "space aliens", so the exegesis is more strained than usual. Especially so since the video explicitly makes a distinction between real aliens and spiritual beings (angels or demons). Note that the AI narrator misquotes the parable of the lost sheep!

What prompted the video above is (of course) the strange claim by Trump that he will direct the federal government to disclose all secret UFO files. The Adventists who made the video suspect a mass deception and strongly imply that the last days may soon be upon us. Mass deception there will indeed be (one way or another), but hardly the literal apocalypse described in the Book of Revelation and elsewhere.

But you knew that already. So let´s move on. I actually toyed with the idea of "unfallen worlds" myself, but from a slightly different angle. Since we live in a gigantic "cosmic void", maybe that´s why no alien civilization ever comes visiting us? The distances are enormously large even by space standards, so why bother? Hopefully the strange and wonderful alien worlds in distant galaxies are indeed unfallen...