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http://www.aolnews.com/weird-news/article/ufos-and-the-bible-close-encounters-of-the-sacred-kind/19646526?icid=main|main|dl1|sec3_lnk3|174962
Close Encounters of the Sacred Kind
Oct. 1) -- A group of people has a mass sighting of a huge, airborne glowing object that follows them for many miles and even protects them from attack. Someone is seen being lifted into the sky on a beam of light. A man witnesses unexplained circular vehicles with living creatures on board.
Pretty much sounds like your typical, modern-day UFO sightings, right? Wrong. These are vivid accounts of stories from the Old and New Testaments.
"If UFOs are some type of intelligent power from another world, they may have been around for millions of years and may have been involved in the development of the biblical religion, and I do believe that is the case," said the Rev. Barry Downing, a retired Presbyterian minister.
In his 1968 book, "The Bible and Flying Saucers" (Marlowe), Downing suggests that extraterrestrials in technologically advanced spaceships played a major part in events depicted in the Bible.
"You can go through the Bible and look for signs of things that hover in the sky and seem to be intelligently controlled and interact with the biblical people," Downing told AOL News.
The theory that many of the miraculous events of the Bible could be explained by the intervention of aliens first struck Downing in the early 1960s.
"When I was in seminary, the conflict between science and religion had become fairly clear, and some of the more liberal professors basically said, 'We can't believe in things in the Bible, like the resurrection and ascension of Jesus, we can't believe in the angel world -- this is all mythology.'
"But when you dismiss these things as mythology, you end up with a god with no power, and nobody's going to bother with a god with no power."
It was during his years at the University of Edinburgh that Downing started thinking about the possibility of visits from outer space. And he wondered how that might to apply to the concept of the angels in the Bible.
Let's consider a few biblical stories that Downing has closely examined and see how they measure up to what we know as UFO encounters.
Probably the best-known and most dramatic of these has to be the parting of the Red Sea -- a miracle that saved the Israelites, who were fleeing their lives of slavery at the hands of the Egyptians.
Downing cites the "pillar of cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night" that led the Jews during their Exodus from Egypt.
"This object hovers in the air and then leads the Jewish people up to the Red Sea, and hovers over the Red Sea during the parting of it, and I believe, uses its propulsion system to split the waters of the sea so the Jews can cross.
"When the Jews got on the other side, the Egyptians came in with their chariots and got in a good long way before something strange happened. According to the Bible, Moses raised his hands in the air and the walls of water collapsed, which I take to be the power was turned off."
But if this story really happened, can it be explained in modern scientific terms?
jne jne.....
http://www.aolnews.com/weird-news/article/ufos-and-the-bible-close-encounters-of-the-sacred-kind/19646526?icid=main|main|dl1|sec3_lnk3|174962
Close Encounters of the Sacred Kind
Oct. 1) -- A group of people has a mass sighting of a huge, airborne glowing object that follows them for many miles and even protects them from attack. Someone is seen being lifted into the sky on a beam of light. A man witnesses unexplained circular vehicles with living creatures on board.
Pretty much sounds like your typical, modern-day UFO sightings, right? Wrong. These are vivid accounts of stories from the Old and New Testaments.
"If UFOs are some type of intelligent power from another world, they may have been around for millions of years and may have been involved in the development of the biblical religion, and I do believe that is the case," said the Rev. Barry Downing, a retired Presbyterian minister.
In his 1968 book, "The Bible and Flying Saucers" (Marlowe), Downing suggests that extraterrestrials in technologically advanced spaceships played a major part in events depicted in the Bible.
"You can go through the Bible and look for signs of things that hover in the sky and seem to be intelligently controlled and interact with the biblical people," Downing told AOL News.
The theory that many of the miraculous events of the Bible could be explained by the intervention of aliens first struck Downing in the early 1960s.
"When I was in seminary, the conflict between science and religion had become fairly clear, and some of the more liberal professors basically said, 'We can't believe in things in the Bible, like the resurrection and ascension of Jesus, we can't believe in the angel world -- this is all mythology.'
"But when you dismiss these things as mythology, you end up with a god with no power, and nobody's going to bother with a god with no power."
It was during his years at the University of Edinburgh that Downing started thinking about the possibility of visits from outer space. And he wondered how that might to apply to the concept of the angels in the Bible.
Let's consider a few biblical stories that Downing has closely examined and see how they measure up to what we know as UFO encounters.
Probably the best-known and most dramatic of these has to be the parting of the Red Sea -- a miracle that saved the Israelites, who were fleeing their lives of slavery at the hands of the Egyptians.
Downing cites the "pillar of cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night" that led the Jews during their Exodus from Egypt.
"This object hovers in the air and then leads the Jewish people up to the Red Sea, and hovers over the Red Sea during the parting of it, and I believe, uses its propulsion system to split the waters of the sea so the Jews can cross.
"When the Jews got on the other side, the Egyptians came in with their chariots and got in a good long way before something strange happened. According to the Bible, Moses raised his hands in the air and the walls of water collapsed, which I take to be the power was turned off."
But if this story really happened, can it be explained in modern scientific terms?
jne jne.....
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Vanhimmat
Jos Raamattu on Jumalan sanaa niin silloinhan sen on pakko olla totta joka sana, sananmukaisesti. Vai luuletko että kaikkivoipa Jumala olisi erehtynyt?
Jos Raamattu kertookin UFOista niin silloinhan se ei voi olla Jumalan sanaa, eikä sillä ole lähteenä erikoisempaa arvoa kuin vaikkapa Kalevalalla.
tuolla väitetty että raamatussakin mainitaan ufoista? Ja että jotkin ns ihmeet, nekin ovat selitettävissä tekniikan avulla toteutettuina.
Jos Raamatun ihmeet voidaan selittää tekniikan avulla niin eikös tuo Jumalan Sana ole silloin väärässä?
siihen en osaa vastata. Kysypä Jumalalta itseltään.
Mutta Jumalahan valehteli jo Raamatussa jos Raamattu on Jumalan sanaa ja Raamatun ihmeet voidaan selittää tekniikalla, kuten edellä kerrottu!
kertoo siitä ihmiskunna suurimmasta kysymyksestä ,missä kaikki ovat?
Itse luulen että etäisyydet on syynä ettei heitä/niitä(sanasto ei vielä oikein....- ole vielä näkynyt.
tai sitten ovat lähtenee väärään suuntaan
-tai posauttaneet itsensä ilmaan
jääneet matkan varrelle juuri pitkän matkan takia
tai me ollaan ensimmäisten joukossa joilla on kyky pohtia edes
-tai niitä ei ole ,joka on ehkä kaikista loogisin syy