Welcome to the Dabee podcast with Matthew Stephen Brown, where we take your real questions about faith, the Bible, and culture, and give you honest, practical advice you can trust. We're glad you're here. Now let's get into today's episode.

Hey, you guys, we have a really fun episode covering one of my favorite things that I love when Matt talks about. We're going to talk about aliens today. We're going to talk about meditation and gender. It's going to be a really good episode. So are you ready? Yes, I am. It's fun for you because you don't have to answer the questions. It's so true. This first question is actually the question I hate you and I talking

about. Okay. And we tend to differ on, but I love that someone's asking. And this is G.O.V.

from Riverside, California. She said, what are your thoughts on the possibility of alien life? Do you think

they exist? Is there a biblical backing for this? And I'm going to have you share your actual answer and then I'm going to give my two cents on how I choose to stand.

Yeah, I have no idea what you're going to say. Yes, you do. You totally do.

How do you pronounce her name? G.O.V.

Jovi. Yeah, Jovi. You know, I mean, your question is, what are your thoughts on the possibility of alien life?

I would say certainly I think it's possible.

We don't know.

I think that your question is, do you think they exist?

Is there any biblical backing for this?

And so I think Christians that would say no have drawn a hard line between the concept of spiritual beings and physical bodies.

And so I don't think that that's a biblical line.

So I think if you asked a first century Jew, what's the difference between their soul and their body,

they would look at you kind of cross-eyed.

And so what happened is as Christianity became less and less Jewish, it became more and more Greek.

And as we became more and more Greek, we became what's called platonic.

And Plato's idea is that the soul and the body are completely separate.

And so this is where we get the idea that when you die, your body stays on earth and your soul goes to heaven.

Well, the Jewish mind is that our body

is a spiritual instrument, that it is not merely physical, and that your soul is not merely spiritual.

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