There are many Christians who believe that God created more worlds than just Earth, and that many of these worlds are also inhabited by His creations. After all, if He did it once, why couldn't He do it again?
Nothing I've ever read in the Bible (or the Book of Mormon, for that matter) rules out the possibility that some of God's children live on other worlds.
God can do anything and everything. It is no more difficult for him to create other habitable planets with sentient life on them. Just as it would not have been difficult for him to create us 'via' evolution.
However, I'm not concerned with what he could have done, but rather he said he did. And although the Bible doesn't rule out sentient extraterrestial life, it leaves little place for it in the way it positions humankind above all the rest of creation.
If God created life on other worlds, what's to say they wouldn't have a sinful nature of their own?
Then the question could be asked as to how they could pay the price of their sins. In christian theology, Jesus Christ comes to pay for our sins through his death on the cross. Now, if this same sacrifice would also pay for their sin, it brings up several difficulties.
How unlikely is it then that God decided to incarnate himself in a human rather then any other of those sentient kinds ? And how could they know about his sacrifice and that their debt was paid ? (Something like: My son has died for your sins, but it was on another planet. but I'll tell you how it happened their is this thing called a cross, which is made out of wood, which is a material which come from trees, which is a plant on this planet. And these crosses were used by romans, who were a nation of human, who were conquering all of the known world, un der Caesar, etc. ????)
What I tried to say here is that even the cultural background simply to understand the life of Jesus would be far too complicated to tell them, and by this then they could but by great difficulty understand why and how they could be saved.
The other option would be that Jesus's sacrific would only pay for humankinds sin. And that each other sentient life would have had their own son of God who would pay for their sins. Which is in clear contradiction with the trinitary aspect of God which I think is a biblical truth. (The other option of God's only son paying for all the different sins by incarnating in all the different sentient lifeforms is ruled out by the biblical teaching that Jesus is still supposd to be a human even in heaven.)
All this to say that I see lots of theological difficulties and logical inconsistencies with sentient life and christianity, and that the effort to overcome these in order for christianity to 'still be true' would be overwhelming and in the end, it would no longer look like anything we today call christianity. Also in my first post I clearly said that this was pretty subjective and so it was my personnal opinion. I can see how someone would accomodate his christian believes with such a discovery, but I couldn't.
Furthermore, only evolutionary concepts require beings to be descended from humans to be humans; creationary concepts hardly require that.[/qs]
Adam is presented in the Bible as being the father of humankind, the first through which all of humankind stems from. So God could not have created humans also on other planets. At the very least it could only be other types of life. (which as said above I would find extremely difficult to reconcile with the Biblical truth)
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