August 29, 2011 – Psalms 147 – 150

This is a bit bizarre and maybe off topic, but reading this and about all the things praising God I had an interesting idea and could be an intriguing sci-fi novel for someone that can write. Two things have always interested me about life on other planets and religion. First, could they believe in the same God or even be Catholics and second, how could that fit in with Christ only becoming incarnate once and dying once. Obviously God can do whatever He wants being all powerful and everything, but here is a situation I find thought provoking and novelish.

Picture the Earth in the not too distant future. Governments crumbling, economies bad, religion being crushed by materialism and so on. Then all of a sudden spaceships come. In my novel they are not all the same types of spaceships but different types from different places. Our understanding in Catholic teaching is that after Christ left, God has revealed knowledge of the faith through different methods. That is why Catholics believe they have the Truth, that is where we get our understanding of the books that are to be in the Bible, teachings on Mary and so forth. We believe that God reveals certain pieces of knowledge to the Church to help it guide those pilgrims still on Earth. Well in my novel, God did not just reveal things to the Church, but also to special people on planets throughout the universe. Just like here, He did not reveal all, because that would be beyond understanding, but He revealed some, and the some converts them to believe in Christ and Resurrection. (As I am typing I am wondering how sin enters into all this, not to mention humans being special, but maybe for another day) So, all the spaceships are on their own special pilgrimages to Earth to see where Christ died, to learn from those He left behind, to partake of the Eucharist they have heard about, believe in, but don’t understand.

Imagine their surprise when they come to the world God choose as special to bring Christ to in complete disarray and very little belief in Christ at all. Imagine surprise to learn from the aliens what we have taken for granted. Anyway, I just thought of it when I was thinking about everything praising God and all things throughout the universe praising God. A bit of a twist to your space alien novels.