What if "God" is an Alien? UFOS and Extraterrestrials in the Bible

[Antiquity]

Ezekiel 1:4 (NIV)
I looked, and I saw a windstorm coming out of the north--an immense cloud with flashing lightning and surrounded by brilliant light. The center of the fire looked like glowing metal.

Ezekiel 1:16 (NIV)
This was the appearance and structure of the wheels: They sparkled like chrysolite, and all four looked alike. Each appeared to be made like a wheel intersecting a wheel.

For those of you that believe in a god, isn't it interesting how many paintings from the Biblical era (last pic is before that) depict "higher beings" as flying crafts, well before flying crafts even existed

 

[27FarOutRazor]

I always believed this

 

[Menelik II]

Nah - there is a good chance that aliens exist, but god is pretty much no chance.

 

[SunZoo]

It's crazy how religious zealots, atheists and scientists will all get kicked in the nuts at the same time.

Nah - there is a good chance that aliens exist, but god is pretty much no chance.

The "god" (or gods of many other myths) of the bible that people were referring to wasn't an imaginary sky daddy, it was a flesh and blood being. And even then that doesn't negate a "GOD" with a big G.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

The idea of flying saucers as aliens wasn't even around until like the 1940s. Trying to depict a rock as an alien spacecraft because it's vaguely saucer-like doesn't gell with actual history.

 

[iFightSeagullsForBread]

The idea of flying saucers as aliens wasn't even around until like the 1940s. Trying to depict a rock as an alien spacecraft because it's vaguely saucer-like doesn't gell with actual history.

A call me crazy, but does the stereotypical portrayal of little green men/greys comes off like some kind weird vilification of Asians, more so could be the result of sentiments towards Japanese-Americans following the end of WWII and the historical strife Chinese-Americans faced during the labor/immigration riots of the 1880's?

I'm high af so please forgive the rambling.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

A call me crazy, but does the stereotypical portrayal of little green men/greys comes off like some kind weird vilification of Asians, more so could be the result of sentiments towards Japanese-Americans following the end of WWII and the historical strife Chinese-Americans faced during the labor/immigration riots of the 1880's?

I never considered that angle before.

Did some research on wikipedia.

First mention of greys:

In the 1893 article "Man of the Year Million", the well-known author H.G. Wells had envisioned the possibility of humanity transformed into a race of grey-skinned beings; who were perhaps 1 meter tall, with big heads and large, oval-shaped pitch black eyes. In his 1901 book The First Men in the Moon, Wells described Selenites (natives of the Moon) as having grey skin, big heads, and large black eyes. He also briefly describes aliens resembling Greys brought down to Earth as food for the Martians, who were the antagonist characters in his 1898 novel The War of the Worlds.

Second mention of greys:

In 1933, the Swedish novelist Gustav Sandgren, using the pen name Gabriel Linde, published a science-fiction novel called Den okända faran (The Unknown Danger), in which he describes a race of extraterrestrials: "...the creatures did not resemble any race of humans. They were short, shorter than the average Japanese, and their heads were big and bald, with strong, square foreheads, and very small noses and mouths, and weak chins.

Looks like the first ever mention of "grey aliens" like that in real life is either Roswell or the Betty and Barney Hill story. Betty and Barney Hill recovered their experience during hyponosis...two weeks after an "Outer Limits" episode showed exactly the kind of alien they described. The Roswell "witness testimonies" which describe a grey also all came 20+ years after the fact, after the Outer Limits publicized it.

Grey alien - Wikipedia

Where does the archetypal image of the 'Grey' alien come from?

I'm high af so please forgive the rambling.

No worry, most people who see flying saucers are too lol.

 

[Ghost Utmost]

Once again.

Let's say our planet was completely seeded by aliens. Let's say they designed everything from microbes to plants to humans.

Where did the aliens come from?

At some point there was a first life form that had no alien to design it.

So if Earth is not that place where life began, there is a place where life began.

Nah mean? Inserting aliens into our story doesn't erase the ultimate question of how life began.

You still have to face the fact that life itself is a miracle.

As far as G-d Itself: it's the entire Universe Itself. An alien can't be G-d cause G-d isn't a being in the sense that we are beings. Any being exists inside of G-d. The Sun exists inside of G-d. The galaxy exists inside of G-d. And so on.

 

[Shogun]

All those paintings are from over millennium after the bible was written.

 

[Joe Sixpack]

Classic Higher Learning thread

 

[Bernie Madoff]

Jesus today would be a 33 year old stoner living in his mother's basement

 

[Leasy]

I never considered that angle before.

Did some research on wikipedia.

First mention of greys:




Second mention of greys:




Looks like the first ever mention of "grey aliens" like that in real life is either Roswell or the Betty and Barney Hill story. Betty and Barney Hill recovered their experience during hyponosis...two weeks after an "Outer Limits" episode showed exactly the kind of alien they described. The Roswell "witness testimonies" which describe a grey also all came 20+ years after the fact, after the Outer Limits publicized it.

Grey alien - Wikipedia

Where does the archetypal image of the 'Grey' alien come from?









No worry, most people who see flying saucers are too lol.

Believe Cac lore. There are no grey aliens which are a copy of African Fertility goodness

If there are aliens they probably would look like us.

 

[Take It In Blood]

perhaps

 

[Joe Sixpack]

Once again.

Let's say our planet was completely seeded by aliens. Let's say they designed everything from microbes to plants to humans.

Where did the aliens come from?

At some point there was a first life form that had no alien to design it.

So if Earth is not that place where life began, there is a place where life began.

Nah mean? Inserting aliens into our story doesn't erase the ultimate question of how life began.

You still have to face the fact that life itself is a miracle.

As far as G-d Itself: it's the entire Universe Itself. An alien can't be G-d cause G-d isn't a being in the sense that we are beings. Any being exists inside of G-d. The Sun exists inside of G-d. The galaxy exists inside of G-d. And so on.

The Black Man is God..

He manifested all things in existence.. He is the maker and the owner. The Cream of the Planet Earth. The Father of a Civilization and the God of the Universe

 

[Skeptic]

How about we prove either of them exist first? Then we can go from there.