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There\u2019s a post by David Opderbeck at Jesus Creed<\/em> today on a topic of continued interest to me: theology and extraterrestrials<\/a>. Even if you don\u2019t find that post\u2019s approach to the topic helpful, the picture of ET meeting Jesus is alone worth the effort of clicking through\u2026<\/p>\n

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There\u2019s a post by David Opderbeck at Jesus Creed today on a topic of continued interest to me: theology and extraterrestrials. Even if you don\u2019t find that post\u2019s approach to the topic helpful, the picture of ET meeting Jesus is alone worth the effort of clicking through\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nTheology and Extraterrestrials at Jesus Creed<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"There's a post by David Opderbeck at Jesus Creed today on a topic of continued interest to me: theology and extraterrestrials. 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