# What are the Christian views on extraterrestrials **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [September 22, 2026, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-christian-views-on-extraterrestrials/1033285 "2026-09-22T19:15:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 38
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> [@UDS1](#): > > You can see how this could map on to the discovery of intelligent alien life. The consensus would probably be that, if they are sufficiently like us to make salvation a meaninful concept, they could be saved. Nobody would argue that that would require a separate incarnation or a second sacrifice of Christ. Plenty of people have suggested that a ‘separate incarnation or a second sacrifice of Christ’ would be necessary, or desirable. The universe might be full of Jesus-analogs, administering to crab-people, spider-people, octopoids, bee-hives, and so on, as Olaf Stapledon suggested (I quoted his ideas a short while ago, in this post **[A question about Christian religions that believe a Rapture is coming - #33 by eburacum45](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-question-about-christian-religions-that-believe-a-rapture-is-coming/1033261/33)** ) * * * Indeed this may even be true in the real universe; the fact that some, many or most intelligent aliens have some sort of Jesus-analog in their past does not imply or require that salvation is a real phenomenon. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-christian-views-on-extraterrestrials/1033285)._