slushpup wrote:
Here are the passages that the article mentioned as displayed in blue below.. Very interesting indeed..
Hate to kick off my first post on Disclose by questioning a Super Moderator, but we're all big boys (and girls) here and this is a very touchy topic, so I'll fire away. I read through the passages you listed from the Bible, however I was unable to find anything pointing to its original writers casting aliens into the play.
Many of the terms it seems you found to reference interplanetary intelligence (e.g., Heavenly Bodies, angels, "of the Universe", etc) really seem to me to only reference Jesus and the Heavens. Apart from reading this topic, I've never even heard this theory before. (And I've spent MANY a Sunday in a pew!) I guess it's all in how you interpret things.
That said, this does not mean the original scripters of the Bible did NOT know about ETs. I personally just don't really think they would introduce such a concept into the Christian religion, for the very same reasons we're discussing here - possible widespread hysteria and loss of their grip on their more than 2 billion followers around the world.
HOWEVER, in light of developing science and theory, I
do think many words and phrases within those passages you transcribed
could be "spun" to
convey such a duality of context (which is what appears to be happening). I'm not sure how many Christians would buy that, but I guess that would be their only plausible "Plan B".
I understand and can appreciate the Church agreeing to stick its neck out to make such an announcement, but as I've said above, who is going to believe that the creature from science fiction that you've only seen in movies and on TV is an
actual thing, who is, according to the Pope, your brother? Really?
Wouldn't it just be better to expand our classification of species to account for it? Adding religion into the mix just seems like it would kind of confuse the true believers.
stone069 wrote:
If we had stumbled upon a life form less advanced then ourselves we would have surely exploited them in some manner, if not out right destroyed them for our own gain.
How do you know that is not
their intention? No one knows. All we know is, we are us. And there appears to be a "them". The possibility that we were created by "them" or the fact that we are still flourishing as a race does not necessarily mean we aren't being breeded or "fattened up" for some ultimate purpose. Ever seen "To Serve Man"?
On another note, what about these theories that suggest we were cloned by ETs to create the modern homo sapien? If the acknowledged existence of ETs doesn't bring down religion, a revelation like
that certainly would. How would we cope? Would the world split into two groups of theists? One accepting this modern view and ETs as our Gods, and the other trapped in denial, in the old world of monotheisms? Hmmm....