With increasing public interest in cosmic phenomena and the subject of aliens, more people are asking where different life forms fit into God’s grand plan of human existence. Has God revealed things, or left clues, that might help us understand what is true and what is fiction? And as with searching new areas of knowledge, will we be able to find answers to an entire slew of new questions that arise as soon as we start finding some initial answers?
If from Noah, for example, came “all the families of the earth” after the Flood (Moses 7:45; cf. vv 50–51), why would God need to “sen[d] forth an unalterable decree, that a remnant of his [Noah’s] seed should always be found among all nations while the earth should stand” (Moses 7:52)? Wouldn’t that be a foregone conclusion and not require a special decree? Or does such
wording imply there are other “families” here also who are not of this earth?
With the abundant evidence of humanoid and cryptid life forms inhabiting this planet—some of which may account for people’s disappearances in wilderness areas—could their inhabiting these places yield a clue to who or what they are? God cursed Cain, for example, that “a fugitive and a vagabond shall you be in the earth” (Genesis 4:12), meaning that he and his descendants were confined to inhabit wilderness areas and receive no promised lands.
From Isaiah, moreover, we know that while those who ascend the spiritual ladder through a process of rebirths closer to God’s image and likeness, those who descend the ladder undergo progressive de-creation. As they no longer resemble what they once were, Isaiah likens them to lower life forms such as reptiles, howling creatures, and demonic entities. Is it just incidental that these parallel today’s sightings of reptilians, wolf men, Jersey devils, etc.?
The very fact that such humanoids don’t resemble mankind—who “in the beginning was created after the image of God” (Mosiah 7:27; Alma 18:34)—but instead resemble a degraded form of human beings, tells us they under the curse of God. That in spite of incredible technologies some humanoid species evidently possess, they themselves are in a state of de-creation and are cursed. Small wonder many predatorize earthlings just as devils do.
Was not “that old serpent called the Devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world . . . cast out into the earth and his angels cast out with him” (Revelation 12:9)? Whether they possess a spirit form only, or additionally manifest physical incarnations, we might conjecture—based on scriptural patterns of people in the world who deny Jesus Christ—that they could indeed assume life forms of progressive de-creation rather than re-creation.
God’s definition of a “man,” on the other hand, is not of one who predatorizes others but who “intercedes” with God and men on behalf of persons in need of our help. Said Isaiah, who saw
our world ripening in iniquity: “When integrity is lacking, they who shun evil become a prey. Jehovah saw that there was no justice, and it displeased him. When he saw it, he wondered why
there was no man, no one who would intercede” (Isaiah 59:15–16).
