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To: marbren

You were saying — What if Obama and a true ET had a news conference in the Rose Garden and said our Lord Jesus Christ was just another alien. Could Satan pull that one off? Would most people believe it?

Of course, that’s a long-standing claim already, by some in that camp (i.e., aliens from advanced civilizations in far-away galaxies coming here on space ships to visit earth).

The answer is that people are already believing it now. What percentage, I don’t know, but it’s been a theory and also believed for quite a few decades, thus far.

The first I was familiar with it was Chariot of the Gods, by Erich von Daniken, published in 1968.

Chariots of the Gods?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chariots_of_the_Gods

http://www.amazon.com/dp/0425166805

Explanations for the origins of religions as reactions to contact with an alien race. According to Daniken, humans considered the technology of the aliens to be supernatural and the aliens themselves to be gods. Daniken asks if the oral and literal traditions of most religions contain references to visitors from stars and vehicles traveling through air and space. These, he says, should be interpreted as literal descriptions which have changed during the passage of time and become more obscure. An example is Ezekiel’s revelation in Old Testament, which he interprets as a detailed description of a landing spacecraft. Däniken attempts to draw an analogy with the “cargo cults” that formed during and after World War II, when once-isolated tribes in the South Pacific mistook the advanced American and Japanese soldiers for gods.

The two most controversial proposals were that Biblical characters were inspired by the extraterrestrials, and humans acquired their superior intelligence by mating with aliens.

And, with a great portion of our world’s population already convinced, without any evidence or proof that aliens from advanced civilizations and far-away galaxies are coming here in their space ships and visiting earth — it’s not a surprise that people are thinking that.

I sort of think that such a false claim will be made (officially) at some point in the near future. It’s all part of the coming and great deception that goes on prior to the coming of Jesus, the Messiah of Israel, to set up His worldwide Kingdom on earth.


210 posted on 07/11/2009 6:43:30 PM PDT by Star Traveler (The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is a Zionist and Jerusalem is the apple of His eye.)
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To: Star Traveler

I agree, anything is possible. Our preconceived notions and common sense may become a problem. In fact, isn’t faith the opposite of common sense?


212 posted on 07/11/2009 6:52:44 PM PDT by marbren
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