The reason I believe in extraterrestrial life (in some form) is that I find it too depressing to think that out of all the trillions of planets in all the universes that are, we were the best that God could do.
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When we come to know God, we become the ‘best.’ And if there are other forms of life in the universe, this can add to the Joy we already have in knowing God.
But doesn’t it seem strange that God would have created us knowing that Adam and Eve would fail, thus condemning generation after generation to a state in which we have to “become the ‘best'” rather than being created to exist forever in that initial state of grace?
That kind of ‘grace’ may be for the animals– not humans. It is state of unconsciousness that cannot know of God. Humankind has the ability to choose a Life with God by an act of will, whereas animals do not. Many generations have been condemned by their rebellion against God’s Wisdom, not by what Adam and Eve may have done.
What is strange to me is the fact that God’s healing and transforming grace is available to all but most people are not interested in partaking of it. Hearts of stone are not receptive to God’s love and so the kind of suffering that is self-inflicted, continues.