The Bible is a gift. And, as is usual with gifts, the essential message has been wrapped carefully. Consequently, it is necessary to separate the cover from the gift in order to recognise the essentials. Only then will we understand the true message of the Bible.
It was Swiss researcher and writer Erich von Däniken who discovered, in the 1970s, that the Bible contains information on alien, intelligent, human life forms that came to earth from outer space in order to create or improve intelligent life on this planet. Many mythological tales of ancient cultures around the globe tell of gods from above who not only created human beings but also brought with them art and science. Having performed their task, they went back into space. Nevertheless, they often left wives and children behind who acted as some kind of governor or emissary.
From time to time, those gods from above fought against each other. Nowadays, the newly-founded scientific branch of Paleo-SETI-Research, whose purpose is to research into traces of extraterrestrial intelligence in Earth’s early history, has been looking closely into this matter.
It is beyond the scope of this work to analyse all the historical reports from around the world, which may contain such prehistoric extraterrestrial messages. Therefore, let us concentrate on the Old Testament of the Bible. However, if the Old Testament does in fact contain so much prehistoric extraterrestrial information, what is left for human belief in God? If the angry but merciful Creator of the Bible actually was an alien who happened to have some superior kind of technology unintelligible to earth people, what is left for the Christian faith? Furthermore, was the real Jesus just a free rider or copycat at a later date?
So, what we need is a new concept of God! Even changing religion would not suffice, because other concepts might also be imbued with extraterrestrial information. Consequently, our concept or idea of God needs a totally different starting point.
Greek philosopher Anaximander (611-546 BC) used the word apeíron to designate the original principle. He was the first philosopher who did not seek the origin of the world in a personalised God.
Another explanation came from ancient Greek philosophy with the idea of the First Cause. Philosophy teachers used to explain this term by using a stick to move a stone. While the hand moves the stick, the stick moves a stone, the stone moves a grain of sand, and so on. It was Aristotle who came up with the idea of the Prime-Mover God, who is quite different from the personified Creator that we are familiar with in Christianity. The Prime-Mover, rather, should be seen as the transcendental origin whose existence is based in eternal self-reflective thinking. The Prime-Mover himself must be unmoved because he is superior to the movement of the world. He has no beginning and no end. During the Middle Ages and early Modern Times, it was Thomas Aquinas and Immanuel Kant who argued in favour of God’s existence.
Supporters of the ‘big bang’ and evolutionary theory may now claim that stars and planets are the outcome of exploded concentrated matter. However, nobody can explain where this matter should have come from and why it was concentrated for no apparent reason somewhere in the universe. Even more difficult is how to explain life on earth. Evolutionary theory does not explain how flowers were pollinated before bees, or other insects, appeared. Wind alone does not suffice. Or, vice versa, how did bees manage to survive before the existence of plants with calyxes? Who was first, the hen or the egg? There are animals whose organs are so perfectly adapted to their natural surroundings that it is difficult to imagine how this could have been done by evolution. Female whales, for example, have the perfect organ to enable their young to suckle under water, which makes it possible for the whale baby to drink its mother’s milk instead of sea water. How could such an organ develop by way of evolution? It must have been there right from the start. Evolutionary theory cannot explain such a phenomenon.
Generally speaking, believing in the big bang or evolutionary theory means nothing less than expecting the formation of a complete encyclopaedia out of the explosion of a printer’s workshop. Ultimately, there is no final evidence for the big bang or evolution. They are both just theories, made up by scientists who worked in a laboratory mixing some liquids and observing the results. Nobody can tell whether their assumption is right or not. Consequently, for those who believe in creation, there is no need to compromise their point of view. This, however, leads inevitably to the question of who is the Prime-Mover?
It was Swiss researcher and writer Erich von Däniken who discovered, in the 1970s, that the Bible contains information on alien, intelligent, human life forms that came to earth from outer space in order to create or improve intelligent life on this planet. Many mythological tales of ancient cultures around the globe tell of gods from above who not only created human beings but also brought with them art and science. Having performed their task, they went back into space. Nevertheless, they often left wives and children behind who acted as some kind of governor or emissary.
From time to time, those gods from above fought against each other. Nowadays, the newly-founded scientific branch of Paleo-SETI-Research, whose purpose is to research into traces of extraterrestrial intelligence in Earth’s early history, has been looking closely into this matter.
It is beyond the scope of this work to analyse all the historical reports from around the world, which may contain such prehistoric extraterrestrial messages. Therefore, let us concentrate on the Old Testament of the Bible. However, if the Old Testament does in fact contain so much prehistoric extraterrestrial information, what is left for human belief in God? If the angry but merciful Creator of the Bible actually was an alien who happened to have some superior kind of technology unintelligible to earth people, what is left for the Christian faith? Furthermore, was the real Jesus just a free rider or copycat at a later date?
So, what we need is a new concept of God! Even changing religion would not suffice, because other concepts might also be imbued with extraterrestrial information. Consequently, our concept or idea of God needs a totally different starting point.
Greek philosopher Anaximander (611-546 BC) used the word apeíron to designate the original principle. He was the first philosopher who did not seek the origin of the world in a personalised God.
Another explanation came from ancient Greek philosophy with the idea of the First Cause. Philosophy teachers used to explain this term by using a stick to move a stone. While the hand moves the stick, the stick moves a stone, the stone moves a grain of sand, and so on. It was Aristotle who came up with the idea of the Prime-Mover God, who is quite different from the personified Creator that we are familiar with in Christianity. The Prime-Mover, rather, should be seen as the transcendental origin whose existence is based in eternal self-reflective thinking. The Prime-Mover himself must be unmoved because he is superior to the movement of the world. He has no beginning and no end. During the Middle Ages and early Modern Times, it was Thomas Aquinas and Immanuel Kant who argued in favour of God’s existence.
Supporters of the ‘big bang’ and evolutionary theory may now claim that stars and planets are the outcome of exploded concentrated matter. However, nobody can explain where this matter should have come from and why it was concentrated for no apparent reason somewhere in the universe. Even more difficult is how to explain life on earth. Evolutionary theory does not explain how flowers were pollinated before bees, or other insects, appeared. Wind alone does not suffice. Or, vice versa, how did bees manage to survive before the existence of plants with calyxes? Who was first, the hen or the egg? There are animals whose organs are so perfectly adapted to their natural surroundings that it is difficult to imagine how this could have been done by evolution. Female whales, for example, have the perfect organ to enable their young to suckle under water, which makes it possible for the whale baby to drink its mother’s milk instead of sea water. How could such an organ develop by way of evolution? It must have been there right from the start. Evolutionary theory cannot explain such a phenomenon.
Generally speaking, believing in the big bang or evolutionary theory means nothing less than expecting the formation of a complete encyclopaedia out of the explosion of a printer’s workshop. Ultimately, there is no final evidence for the big bang or evolution. They are both just theories, made up by scientists who worked in a laboratory mixing some liquids and observing the results. Nobody can tell whether their assumption is right or not. Consequently, for those who believe in creation, there is no need to compromise their point of view. This, however, leads inevitably to the question of who is the Prime-Mover?
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