The Bible does not speak of life on other planets. It calls the heavens God’s work (Psalm 19:1), describes angels sent to people whose appearance terrified those who saw them (Daniel 10:5-7, Luke 2:9-10), and commands love for the foreigner (Leviticus 19:34). The King James Version uses alien for a foreigner: Moses names his son Gershom because “I have been an alien in a strange land” (Exodus 18:3), and Ephesians 2:12 describes Gentiles as “aliens from the commonwealth of Israel.”…
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