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Summer 2026When asked what my thoughts are about aliens, unexplained phenomena, how Christians should process all of this, and if it will affect our faith, I find myself less concerned with what is flying above our heads and far more concerned with what is no longer happening in our churches.
The real crisis at hand is the prevalent Biblical illiteracy within the Church, and before anyone can have a meaningful conversation about aliens, we have to define the word itself first. In the modern cultural context, aliens mean little grey beings, abductions, bright lights, and flying saucers. That entire image was handed to us by Hollywood, not by God. People who insist the Bible never mentions aliens are reacting to that cultural construct, not to Scripture. They are interpreting the Bible through a pop-culture lens instead of pausing to consider what God’s Word actually describes for us, and that is precisely the problem.
If “alien” means the pop-culture image we have been fed for decades, then no, the Bible does not address that. But if “alien” means the demonic forces that operate beyond our physical understanding, the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms, then Christians are looking in the right direction. Remember, the Bible does not leave us hanging on any topic. If you believe God is the Creator of everything, and you believe in the Bible as His final word, then we have to ask a simple question. Would He really leave His people uninformed about something this significant?
God made sure Esther, Song of Solomon, and Revelation were included in Scripture. Those three have been points of contention as to their being in the Bible. If He made sure they were added, no, He did not accidentally forget to mention an entire category of beings that would one day dominate global conversation. The idea that God would expect His people to navigate something this spiritually charged without any guidance does not match His character either.
The Bible is not silent about this. It simply does not call them aliens. Ephesians 6:12 describes rulers, authorities, powers of this dark world, and spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. These are real entities with real influence. Second Thessalonians 2 warns that the lawless one will use signs, wonders, and displays of power that serve the lie. That is a deceptive strategy.
Here is the part that keeps me up at night. Research consistently shows that only about six percent of self-identified Christians hold a Biblical worldview. That means ninety-four percent of people who call themselves “Christian” are walking into this moment with almost no Scriptural foundation.
We already watched churches fold on basic questions about gender, life, and God’s design. Do I think those churches that surrendered that ground are suddenly going to stand Biblically firm when the conversation shifts to aliens? No, because that is already what I am seeing. Religious and church leaders are unable to answer questions Biblically on extraterrestrial life because they themselves are not grounded in Scripture.
People have been conditioned for decades to find these topics fascinating instead of spiritually alarming. Entertainment desensitized us, teaching Scriptural truth became optional, leaders were afraid to admit they did not have all the answers, and congregations stopped asking for definitions. Now we have people who cannot find a book in the Bible trying to interpret declassified UFO files. That is the real disaster.
If extraterrestrials, in the pop-culture sense, revealed themselves tomorrow, Christianity would not collapse. The remnant, those six percent who are grounded in Scripture, would not flinch. What it would do is expose how unprepared the ninety-four percent are, and that is not a failure of God or His Word. That is a failure of discipleship. People will be deceived into embracing them as something exciting, or worse, as benevolent.
Those who truly know God and His Word will interpret any nonhuman encounter through Scripture, not through Hollywood. They will test the spirits as they are told to do in 1 John 4:1, “Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.”
The urgent question to ask now is not whether aliens are real, but whether you actually know the God you claim to believe in.
As for me and my house, I am not losing sleep over files or sightings. I know Who wins. What keeps me awake is the staggering number of people who will be deceived because no one built them a foundation to stand on, and I see leaders failing already in their conversations to explain this to the public.
Before we debate conclusions on whether our faith would be affected, we have to define what we are talking about, because the deception is not coming. It is already here.
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