Final Reflections on Extraterrestrial Life: Earth, Imago Dei, and the Cosmic Scope of Christ’s Atonement

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Christian theology, grounded in Scripture, holds that the Bible centers on Earth and humanity, that Christ’s atonement is cosmic but not automatically about aliens, and that if intelligent extraterrestrial life exists we should cautiously expand our ideas about the image of God and covenant while affirming God as Creator, humans bearing God’s image, and salvation by grace through faith in Christ.