UFOs in the Old Testament

UFOs and the Bible ^ | Tom Slemen

[Quix]

Thanks.

[Lima_Two_Zero_Alpha]

There always has to be a trouble maker. Sad

[dragonblustar]

I’ll have to look for that book.

[SkyDancer]

Now I’ll have to look for what I wrote you ... could you mean “Chariots Of The Gods”? and the rejoinder “Crash Go The Chariots”?

[Big Red Badger]

Von Daniken,1967.
One of the first books
I Truly “inhaled.”

Yes, it infected me and I
kept on searching.

[mad_as_he$$]

I once told a very fundamentalist “Christian” that I would not be shocked to wake up one morning and see Jesus in the East and the Battlestar Galactica in the West. She cursed me to the fires of hell - in a 15 minute rant that bordered on comical and insane at points.

I find it humorous that there are many formal religions all claiming to be based on the same book the have radically different belief systems.

[Big Red Badger]

Funny analogy,
I told a friend;

“Everyone is between
Mother Theresa and Hitler
on a personality Scale.”

Everyone Gasped!

[mad_as_he$$]

lol...good one!

[Hot Tabasco]

Interesting how many of the folks that posted on this thread 10 years ago have since left.......

[DannyTN]

You have to look at the evidence.

Evidence of God’s power in the scripture is in Miracles and in prophecies.
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Moses who wrote the first 5 books of the Old Testament was authenticated by massive miracles, which the nation of Israel has testified to.

Moses in turn told Israel that God would raise up prophets in Israel and that Israel needed to listen to them. But he also told them how to identify a false prophet from a true one. These prophets that were raised up were generally backed by miracles, though nothing on the scale of what Moses was.

Moses and the prophets all pointed to a coming Messiah and a new covenant. The Jews had identified 166 prophecies about the Messiah prior to the coming of Christ.

Jesus fulfilled all of them.
Jesus was also backed by Miracles greater than Moses was.

Then you also have prophecies about Israel. God tells Israel they will live in the land God gives them peacefully as long as they obey Him. But if not they will be exiled. And if they repent they will be brought back. And if they don’t repent, horrible things will happen to them, but God would bring them back anyway for the sake of the promise He made to Abraham.

You see that fulfilled with the Babylonian exile. Israel was returned after repenting. But when they failed to recognize their Messiah, Jesus, they were scattered across the world. And they were only recently brought back as foretold by the Prophet Zechariah, who wrote after the Babylonian exile but some 600 years before Jesus.

There have been many splits in Christianity, but most were over matters of church governance and Christian liberty. Most were not over the core doctrines of who God is and what God’s plan of salvation is. As long as you get those two right, Christian denominations recognize each other as part of the Christian body. So Catholics, Baptists, Methodists, Presbyterians, Episcopalians, Pentecostals, Non-Denominational and many others all recognize each other as Christian.

There have been some groups formed that claim to be Christian but because they alter those two core doctrines, we don’t recognize them. That includes the Mormons, 7th Day Adventists, Jehovah Witnesses and others. Islam is in that boat as well. They don’t claim to be Christian, but they got their start from the Judeo Christian scriptures. These groups were all warped by someone usually claiming to be a prophet but who fails the test of a prophet that Moses laid down. They introduce their own beliefs by claiming that the original scriptures were in error or had omissions. If you study the original scriptures well, you’ll see the problems with these group’s teachings.

Likewise if you compare the message of the Judeo Christian scriptures to other world religions, I think Christianity comes out the clear winner. Christianity calls us to an active love for others. While all religions teach some form of moral code, they don’t rise to the pureness of what Christianity calls us to do.

[big'ol_freeper]

I’m still here :)

[Big Red Badger]

Sontagged had a posting years
Ago that I refer back to from
Time to time that made the case
that We as humans are unique to
Gods universe.