Question:
One of my friends from school is convinced there is another life form on a different planet. By the words of Scripture, could this be true?

Answer:
There definitely is life in outer space for the Source of life, God Himself, is there. “God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few” (Ecclesiastes 5:2). And God is everywhere, so no one can hide from Him. The Psalmist David asked: “Whither shall I go from Thy Spirit? or whither shall I flee from Thy presence? If I ascend up into heaven, Thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, Thou art there” (Psalm 139: 7, 8). Angelic beings are also “in heavenly places.” They are learning right now the “wisdom of God” through the Lord’s people as they gather together in the way the Scriptures tell them to (Ephesians 3:10).
 

But Psalm 115:16 tells us plainly that there are no creatures with intelligence such as man on other planets in the heavens. The words of Scripture are: “The heaven, even the heavens, are the Lord’s: but the earth hath He given to the children of men.” Man soon realizes that outside the earth’s atmosphere he does not survive long. God furnished only the earth of all the heavenly bodies to suit man’s needs, and gave it to him to dwell there.
Man is a special creation of God, the highest of all God’s creations. He made man to represent Himself, and to show a resemblance of Himself, for we are told that man is made in the “image” and “likeness” of God (Genesis 1:26). It would have been an easy matter for God to create beings on other planets comparable to man in intelligence, suited to whatever environment may exist on such a planet, and beings that have endless existence as man has. But the problem with this lies in the matter of redemption.
If there were other beings comparable to man on other planets, and if they sinned, would not God desire their redemption? To redeem those beings would require an incarnation of Christ in their nature, whereas the Bible teaches that when Christ died and rose again for our salvation, He did not cease to be man but retains His human as well as His divine life. The apostle Paul wrote: “For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; Who gave Himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time” (1 Timothy 2:5, 6). This makes it unlikely, if not impossible, for Christ to have assumed the nature of any other kind of being, since He is called “the man Christ Jesus.” And He will ever be a man throughout the endless ages of eternity.

 

God did not provide a Saviour for the angels who have sinned; He only provided the lake of fire for them (Matthew 25:41). Christ did not take on Him the nature of angels, but the nature of men, “to make reconciliation for the sins of the people” (Hebrews 2:16, 17). Such wonderful good news that God loved us so much that He gave His only begotten Son for us, should cause each man to receive God’s wonderful Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, as his own personal Saviour from his sins.