"Does Scripture Support Alien Life?" — John Mulligan takes on a question you probably won't hear preached anywhere else. From childhood TV Martians to Star Wars and the Mandalorian, from Roswell's museum and Area 51 to the recently declassified government files and Apollo astronauts describing strange lights, humanity has always wondered whether there's life beyond our own. Behind the fun lies a more serious question for believers: has God revealed anything about life outside this life, and how should we think about it?

The answer comes in three turns. First, Scripture plainly affirms extraterrestrial and supernatural life — though not little green men. God Himself, Father, Son, and Spirit, is not human and not of this planet; and Ephesians 6 and 3 describe rulers, authorities, and spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms arrayed against believers, while Satan roams the earth unseen. This life is already here, often unrecognized: Hebrews 13 warns that some have shown hospitality to angels without knowing it, so no stranger should be discarded. Second, for all our reaching into space, Scripture fixes God's attention squarely on this planet. Hebrews 1 piles up the grandest language in all of Scripture — the Son who made the universe, the radiance of God's glory — only to land it on us; John 3:16 says God so loved the world, not the worlds. Even space exploration, finding planets we can reach but cannot return from, quietly confirms how uniquely Earth was made for life.

Then the surprise of the third point: the real aliens are us. Philippians 3:20 declares our citizenship is in heaven, and 1 Peter calls believers foreigners and exiles, urged to abstain from the sinful desires that war against the soul. This world is not home; nothing here — entertainment, relationships, money, vacations — finally satisfies, because we were made for somewhere else. The challenge is to live like it: not blending in with everyone around us, but living visibly for another world, so that others are drawn toward the God whose endless attention and love rest on this planet, and on you.