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For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.

Well, recently, Vice President J.D. Vance admitted that he is, quote-unquote, obsessed with UFOs and extraterrestrial visitors.

He then suggested that what are often identified as aliens could be masquerading demons.

As Vance put it, quoting many others who have said the same thing,

one of the devil's great tricks is to convince people he never existed.

Vice President Vance is in a growing company of those, including many Christians,

who are now fascinated with aliens.

And especially for Christians, to think rightly about E.T.

must begin with getting our worldview right about the existence of the natural and the supernatural.

In fact, it is the rise of vague spiritualities, not firmly rooted in Christian doctrine,

that has fostered so many of our modern beliefs about

aliens and UFOs. Decades ago, C.S. Lewis rightly stated why we so often prefer vague

spirituality over encountering the real God. Quote, an impersonal God, that's well and good. A subjective

God of beauty, truth, and goodness inside our own heads?

Better still. A formless life force surging through us, a vast power that we can tap, that's best of all.

But God himself, alive, pulling at the other end of the cord, perhaps approaching at an infinite speed, the hunter, the king, the husband?

That's quite another matter, end quote.

Well, recently, CBN News produced a documentary that explored aliens in terms of the supernatural.

And in his interview for the documentary, well-known astrophysicist Dr. Hugh Ross claimed

that the strongest evidence for demons today is asserted encounters with UFOs, and that statistically there's a

high correlation between those who claim encounters with UFOs and those who have dabbled

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