Rogan and Trump talk about aliens for four minutes
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Your limiting yourself. For instance, there are at least four alternate dimensions: heaven, hell, the material realm, and purgatory. But nothing Biblical precludes other material realms, if not that it hints at it.
On the far side of the universe, or in alternate ones, there could be a species that is immortal, having never fallen like man.
Yes, I'm limiting myself to what the Church teaches about cosmology and our world. The path of truth is straight and narrow.
Metaverse and realities beside our world and the Kingdom of God make no sense in Christianity. This is wild speculation and fantasy at best and gnostic heresy at worst. The term species itself is not Christian at all. It originates from evo theory and presupposes naturalism. Man is a unique creature made in the image of God and not a product of speciation of biological life.
Is there a reason God has not revealed the creation of another such creature in the creation story? I take it you're Catholic, so you should be aware your Church teaches that God has deposited His revelation in fullness starting with the OT prophets and ending at Pentecost and the establishment of the Church as the new Ark of the covenant.
What church teaching you what?
When John wrote Revelation, that's the end of "public revelation." However, that still does not preclude other universes or aliens. Deeper thinkers than you thought long and hard about this, and they didn't have the answers you do. Either way, scripture applies to humans.
Oh, you're protestant I get it. You mentioning purgatory threw me off. The apostolic Church established by Christ to preserve and spread the word of God which is the only path to salvation - there is no other Church.
It is speculated John wrote Revelation around 90AD. It was the Church that centuries later compiled the Bible and decided John's gospel to be within the Christian tradition.
Those are not my ideas, I'm not a gnostic possessing some secret knowledge. I'm relating the teachings of the Church fathers who kept the tradition and knowledge that was revealed to us by God.
Exactly. How do you have knowledge of anything that doesn't apply to humans? I can imagine a lot of things that most likely are not real. This is exactly what the atheists argue with the stupid Flying spaghetti monster (which is based on Bertrand Russel's teapot) - we don't know that such a thing doesn't exist somewhere in the universe with certainty, yet with no proof there's no reason to believe in it.
No, I'm not Protestant.
Since we are on the same page, so to speak, as non-Protestants, there is no authoritative (Catholic) church teaching on extra-terrestrial life, or interdimensional life.