Originally posted by jonnywhite
reply to post by ButterCookie
I'm 34 right now. I was a christian until my mid 20's. I delt with guilt about it until a few years ago. So I am confidently agnostic at this point,
and can curse god without any shame. But when I -was- a christian I thought the same thing as you. I thought heaven was space or a place in space. I
thought jesus and the angels rose into space from earth and that their home was somewhere out there. Similar, I think that one explanation for
jesus/angels/etc is that they're aliens. But all of this assumes that the bible is an actual account. Since I no longer believe the biblical stories,
then I cannot entertain the idea that angels are aliens and so on.
"I thought that they were angels, but to my surprise, we climbed aboard their starship, we headed for the skies."
edit on 19-9-2011 by jonnywhite because: (no reason given)
I understood completely.
When I deconverted from Christianity a few years ago, it was hard for me to assert that anything about the bible was true. It all sounded so
'fairytail-ish'.....
Then I researched all the different ancient doctrines that told accounts of the 'visitors from heaven' and how they were able to do extremely
advanced things..
I had to tell myself that all these civilizations were not mass-hallucinating or imagining the same events and characters.
When I learned of the Ancient Alien Theory ( which was way before History Channel's Ancient Aliens), it started to make sense, but like you said,
only if the bible is true'.
It makes the bible more plausible and sound; things were not magical, they were advanced technologies being displayed....
Gods and Angels are ancient words used to describe ET's; today, we call them aliens.