Has anyone tried this?

Hi ATS, has anyone tried this:

Reading the Bible and substituting all occurances of the words "Heaven" or "Heavens" with the words "Space" or "Atmosphere"...

For example: "...And God created the atmosphere and the Earth."
or: "God's kingdom in space. "...And God seperated the land from space creating the atmosphere", etc. etc.

I've read many threads speculating about space references in the bible. Substituting the word heaven with space really changes things if you ask me.

Also, along the lines of this same subject, The story of God using Adam's rib to create Eve, kind of sounds like a story of using human DNA to create another human being. And the story of Noah...well, DNA samples of all those animals would make more sense. Ezekiel's wheel= the wheel of the zodiac. A kingdom in "Space" seems more plausable than a "super-perfect kingdom in the clouds".(no disrespect intended)

Btw, I am not an athiest. just someone with a curious mind trying to think outside the box. Anyone out there ever tried looking at the bible in this light?

[edit on 12-9-2007 by cynical572]

[edit on 12-9-2007 by cynical572]

This is what I am always telling people. Jesus Christ and whichever other "deities" were around back in ancient times obviously had to come from SOMEWHERE. I believe "gods" were real-life actual beings that came here from other places. From where? I have no idea lol.

Oh very interesting indeed. Very good observation.

It also supports the theory of Eden being on another planet.

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Jesus Christ is an alien ? is the Star of Bethehem a UFO which guided the 3 men to Jesus Christ which is an alien ?

This is quite an interesting read, quite far out there but some good points
www.mbeach.karoo.net...

these days if we saw a flying saucer we would think they are aliens, back then people would probably assume they were gods

Have you ever replaced the words heaven or heavens with McDonalds and Burger King….

"...and God created the Burger Kings and the earth..."

..."God's kingdom in McDonald's..."

You can make your point by substituting whatever words you want. That doesn't make it a valid point.

Yeah well, 'heavens' and 'space' are at least synonyms in the sense that maybe there could be an issue with translation or interpretation. The rest of the ideas such as DNA and whatever are probly just my modern mind associating modern ideas with the stories of an ancient book. But it's not really that "crazy" of a notion to consider, is it? And the words Genesis & genetics do sound a lot alike.

Hmm this theory has been around for a while as far as i know, always intruiged me greatly though, a lot of people knock the ancient astronaut theory but i think it could be a perfectly good explanation, makes more sense that 'god' creating everything if you ask me.

If your interested in this theory then please watch the following video, it is very good and opens up a few nice ideas for all to discuss

video.google.co.uk...

(sorry about the link, was having trouble embedding the vid!)

enjoy!

Originally posted by cynical572
And the words Genesis & genetics do sound a lot alike.

Alright. I think you are really stretching now.

Replacing whatever words you chose and saying that certain things "sound alike" is hardly basis for a reasonable theory.

Leaving my personal beliefs aside, I think you are reaching a bit too far with this. Saying that Genesis sounds a lot like genetics is pushing it.

What if people did that with everything in the Bible. Someone might take the story of Noah's Ark and say; "Man, ark…sounds a lot like bark…maybe…NOAH WAS DOG! It's all a metaphor for how Noah was really a sheep dog who herded the animals on to a boat!"

Sounds ridiculous doesn't it?

Sounds ridiculous doesn't it?

yes...sorry. I'm not really trying to push the whole "they sound alike" thing, just mentioned it. They actually "mean" similar things...Genesis is a story of creation. Genetics can be a science of creation.
The ideas in this thread are definetly not my personal beliefs. Just a topic that I find interesting.