danaustin77
Daniel
I haven't found another thread with this topic involving religion and if anyone is interested in debating the issues I will bring up, then feel welcome to do so, and I apologise if this thread has already been covered, I am new to this site so please bear with me. Being a religious forum, I thought there must be quite am eclectic range of people on this site, such as Buddhists, Muslims, Christians and Athiests etc, and it maybe interesting to hear different perspectives.
I would like to turn your attention to the aspect of world religions, basically the world wide perception of what religion is, and what the collective amalgamation of these institutes and where they originated both geogographically and spiritually from, inclusive of the Et hypothesis.
What are people's thoughts or beliefs concerning the so called Ancient Astronaut Theory, such as espoused by the infamously famous Erik Von Danikin, such as in his book Charriots of the Gods and the continuing series of publications he made? I have heard the argument from sceptics and critics that his interpretations are 'fantasies', yet as we are dealing with ancient history, is interpretation and theory an unavoidable aspect of understanding what our past is, including archeology, mythology and religion? Orthodox archeology and the study of religion requires a certain amount of interpretaion, such as the early Christian scholars compiling the Holy Bible, chose not to publish certain accounts of the life of Jesus in other conflicting Gospels such as the Gospel of Thomas. Forgive me, I'm not a religious scholar, I have read the New Testament and parts of the Old Testament, and certainly correct me if I'm wrong, but concerning a one God (singular) the Elohim was also refered to as 'those that came from the sky' (plural) and 'worship no other Gods but me' - does this indicate, with the reality of many religions such as the North Americans with 'The Star People', 'The Vedas' in India or 'The Gods' of Egpyt and Greece etc, that indeed it was infact a world wide series of events rather including many divine entities, rather than one divine experience such as re-told in the Holy Bible?
With this in mind, I would also like to turn your thoughts to the current day, and recent times. If something divine was happening in ancient times, then surely something divine might concievably be happening today, and not the personal enlightenments of individuals, but actual encounters with 'God' such as Ezekiels experience of a firey charriot.
If you haven't viewed this footage, I refer you to the following link which is a press conference of May 2001 in Washington DC at The National Press Club, which an organisation amassed around 500 reliable individuals testifying to other beings in our universe, which gained the label, and I say label intentionally, as 'extraterrestrials', 'aliens' or 'visitors.
Please go to site disclosureproject.org if interested.
I think certainly, as with anything which isn't scientifically acknowledged we should be sceptical, but I hope if anyone reading this who considers this as 'ufo nonsense' is there a danger of being cynically sceptical? On a personal level, I have watched this footage, and it is hard to believe 20 out of 500 ex military, governmental, intelligence, corporate and scientific employees would be hoaxing such cliams, lying, deluded or mistaken - however, if I heard a more rational explanation I would be the first to agree, and then it would help my perspective.
Tieing this altogether, what do you think about the Elohim of ancient times to the current hypothesis of Ets - is there possibly a relationship? Primitve man on seeing a gloriously technologically advanced craft descend before him announcing it was God, would not this man believe it to be the all powerful creator of the universe? Yet today, when the same experiences happen, we term them as alleged 'Et visitations' as we are living in different times, with different words to acount for our experiences.
Please don't think I am wishing to tell you what to think, on the contrary, I value each individual opinion and don't want to convert anyone, but simply as you can see lol, I find this subject quite interesting, and thought I would attempt to start a debate on these issues, their relavence to religion, God, Gods and the wider perspective of the events which are unfolding on this very day, so amazing as to be dismissed by sceptics, so ephemeral as not to be pinned down by science, and so unnerving as to be allegedly withheld by Governments.
I would like to turn your attention to the aspect of world religions, basically the world wide perception of what religion is, and what the collective amalgamation of these institutes and where they originated both geogographically and spiritually from, inclusive of the Et hypothesis.
What are people's thoughts or beliefs concerning the so called Ancient Astronaut Theory, such as espoused by the infamously famous Erik Von Danikin, such as in his book Charriots of the Gods and the continuing series of publications he made? I have heard the argument from sceptics and critics that his interpretations are 'fantasies', yet as we are dealing with ancient history, is interpretation and theory an unavoidable aspect of understanding what our past is, including archeology, mythology and religion? Orthodox archeology and the study of religion requires a certain amount of interpretaion, such as the early Christian scholars compiling the Holy Bible, chose not to publish certain accounts of the life of Jesus in other conflicting Gospels such as the Gospel of Thomas. Forgive me, I'm not a religious scholar, I have read the New Testament and parts of the Old Testament, and certainly correct me if I'm wrong, but concerning a one God (singular) the Elohim was also refered to as 'those that came from the sky' (plural) and 'worship no other Gods but me' - does this indicate, with the reality of many religions such as the North Americans with 'The Star People', 'The Vedas' in India or 'The Gods' of Egpyt and Greece etc, that indeed it was infact a world wide series of events rather including many divine entities, rather than one divine experience such as re-told in the Holy Bible?
With this in mind, I would also like to turn your thoughts to the current day, and recent times. If something divine was happening in ancient times, then surely something divine might concievably be happening today, and not the personal enlightenments of individuals, but actual encounters with 'God' such as Ezekiels experience of a firey charriot.
If you haven't viewed this footage, I refer you to the following link which is a press conference of May 2001 in Washington DC at The National Press Club, which an organisation amassed around 500 reliable individuals testifying to other beings in our universe, which gained the label, and I say label intentionally, as 'extraterrestrials', 'aliens' or 'visitors.
Please go to site disclosureproject.org if interested.
I think certainly, as with anything which isn't scientifically acknowledged we should be sceptical, but I hope if anyone reading this who considers this as 'ufo nonsense' is there a danger of being cynically sceptical? On a personal level, I have watched this footage, and it is hard to believe 20 out of 500 ex military, governmental, intelligence, corporate and scientific employees would be hoaxing such cliams, lying, deluded or mistaken - however, if I heard a more rational explanation I would be the first to agree, and then it would help my perspective.
Tieing this altogether, what do you think about the Elohim of ancient times to the current hypothesis of Ets - is there possibly a relationship? Primitve man on seeing a gloriously technologically advanced craft descend before him announcing it was God, would not this man believe it to be the all powerful creator of the universe? Yet today, when the same experiences happen, we term them as alleged 'Et visitations' as we are living in different times, with different words to acount for our experiences.
Please don't think I am wishing to tell you what to think, on the contrary, I value each individual opinion and don't want to convert anyone, but simply as you can see lol, I find this subject quite interesting, and thought I would attempt to start a debate on these issues, their relavence to religion, God, Gods and the wider perspective of the events which are unfolding on this very day, so amazing as to be dismissed by sceptics, so ephemeral as not to be pinned down by science, and so unnerving as to be allegedly withheld by Governments.