What Aliens Teach us About God
Christian Theological Observations Inspired by Science Fiction
Paperback : 66 pages
ISBN-10 : 1721080007
ISBN-13 : 978-1721080007
ASIN : B07FLRC1KV

"Think we're drinking the Kool-Aid? Well, join me and listen to this insightful show with Travis and myself'.

Parker J. Cole

This book isn’t inspired by whether
aliens
actually do exist (or can exist).

Even if aliens are wholly fictional, the very concept of alien intelligence as seen in science fiction can teach important truths about the nature of the God of the Bible.

Because in some very important ways, the Creator of the universe does not think the way a human being thinks.

What Aliens Teach us About God uses examples from science fiction to discuss the nature of God from a Christian perspective and also discusses the nature of aliens as presented in science fiction and elsewhere.

Science fiction often shows aliens as an exaggerated form of human being, which can actually help us understand God.
Science fiction often shows aliens as an exaggerated form of human being, which can actually help us understand God.

Tonight's show is derived from a series of blog posts by a very good friend of mine, Travis Perry. I'm a huge fan of his insight into a variety of things. In particular, this series combined by love of sci-fi aliens with my love for Christ.
Think we're drinking the Kool-Aid? Well, join me and listen to this insightful show with Travis and myself.

--Parker J. Cole,
Author, Radio Host, Speaker.
REVIEWS
You may ask, 'How in the world do aliens, you know, the creatures with the four toes, the one eye, the tentacle, the magical powers, and the spaceships, teach us about God?'
In what I think is simply brilliant, Travis takes the ATTRIBUTES of what we consider ALIEN and shows us how they're not so ALIEN afterall. In fact, the one Being who is truly ALIEN to us is the one who loves us the most, the God of the Bible.
--Parker J. Cole, Author, Radio Host, Speaker.
REVIEWS
In several short chapters followed by thought-provoking questions, Perry leads us through a quick study using a variety of aliens pulled from contemporary TV and films to help readers think about the alien (other) nature of God. Because our fictional aliens are created out of our human, therefore limited, imagination, they are never truly ‘other’ but retain links to the human imagination.
God, however, is not a product of the human imagination—rather the creator of the human imagination. He is unique and other—truly alien. God is not tame, nor will he fit neatly into our fabricated little boxes. And yet, it is this otherness that sets us to seeking aliens across this vast universe (or creating them in our fiction) as we attempt to fill the deep longing within us for this ‘other’.
-Christine S. Wachter
