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- From: codeufo@aol.com (Code UFO)
- Newsgroups: alt.paranet.ufo
- Subject: Re: The whole as the essence of each part: Key ontological concept
- Date: 5 Jul 1996 05:36:45 -0400
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- Somebody wrote:
- >God to us is an alien, but if you think he is three feet tall, >has a
- funny face with big black eyes and requires a UFO to >fly in then you are
- way off.
-
- No. Look, here's the deal. I think when people say, in regard to this UFOs
- in the Bible thing, that God is an alien, what they mean to imply is that
- the primitive humans who witnessed these events, mistakenly interpreted
- the events as acts of "God" and the purpetrators of the events as "Gods".
- The concept of monotheism would later change the plural "Gods" to singular
- "God". Still, however, the mistaken interpretation remained and has been
- perpetuated to this day.
-
- That is not to say, though, that there is no such thing as "God". It's
- just that, in my opinion, we need to get away from this incredibly
- misleading image of such an anthropomorphic deity. What we've done is to
- have created God in our own image.
-
- One more note. To anyone who doubts that the Bible has descriptions of
- UFOs, check out the book of Ezekiel. But, hey, get your head (read that,
- frame of reference) out of your antiquated fourth grade Sunday school
- mentality, and read it with Twentieth Century Eyes. Pay attention to the
- details like the feet of the robotic contraption which dscends from the
- "ship" hovering above. The feet remind Ezekiel of "calves feet" that shine
- "like burnished bronze". Remember, Ezekiel's idea of technology was a
- donkey pulling a wooden cart. Our twentieth century idea of technology
- includes things like lunar landing modules. And, well gosh what do you
- know? Metalic calves feet? Hmmm. Reminds me of the something like the feet
- of... well... of the lunar landing module. Or something along those lines.
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