A is for Alien

A is for Alien
I’m taking a cue from one of the authors I liked when I was a child; Ray Bradbury. He created a couple of books using part of the alphabet, R is for Rocket, S is for Space, and that memory has never left me.

It occurred to me that I could probably create a series of videos based on the alphabet. The series would focus on things that intrigued me; things that make me go hmmm.

When I was nine years old, I began reading the Bible, it was the New Living Translation; a bit easier for a young person to understand the language. It didn’t take me long to find things in there that made me wonder about God’s motivation. When I read that Zipporah took a sharp stone and cut off the foreskin of her son and cast it at Moses’ feet, I felt compelled to ask my parents what a foreskin was... The answer frightened me a bit and made me examine the status of my... well suffice it to say, we didn’t have the internet, so they did their best, but that made me wonder why God cared about that? Especially when in 1 Samuel, the LORD said to Samuel, “For man sees the outward appearance, but the LORD sees the heart.”

I hear your thoughts, “What does this have to do with aliens?!”
Well, in spite of my affection for the Bible in the various forms I’ve studied, there are a lot of questions.

In the ancient past, when someone saw a thing and then they told others about what they saw, how did they know what to call it? How could they describe it in a way where I, a human of 2022 at this writing, would be able to relate to it and understand exactly what they were talking about? I say talking about, because I’m certain that the text handed down to us, however carefully crafted, was filled with lots of, as close as we could get to the thing they originally described. Because after all, before it was written down it was told word-of-mouth in an ancient game of telephone, which brings me back to ALIENS! Ha! Finally.

So, the foreskin thing was just a scary gateway to my questioning the inspiration and motivation of every author of every book in the Bible.
Apparently, there are really scary things that appear to the people of the Bible at times.

Cherubim are usually depicted like a sweet little angel.

But Ezekiel saw something a bit more terrifying in the 10th chapter:

“As for their appearance, the four of them looked alike; each was like a wheel intersecting a wheel. As they moved, they would go in any one of the four directions the cherubim faced; the wheels did not turn about as the cherubim went. The cherubim went in whatever direction the head faced without turning as they went. Their entire bodies, including their backs, hands, and wings, were full of eyes, as were their four wheels. I heard the wheels being called ‘the whirling wheels.’

Each of the cherubim had four faces: One face was that of a cherub, the second the face of a human being, the third the face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle.”

This meme illustrates the point pretty well.

In the same chapter we also learn:

“The wingspan of the cherubim was twenty cubits; the wing of one, of five cubits, touched the wall of the house, and its other wing, of five cubits, touched the wing of the other cherub.”

Okay that sounds big. How big exactly?

According to one estimate, a cubit is approximately 1.5 feet, so a 20-cubit wingspan would be roughly 30 feet. Each wing was about 7.5 feet wide, leaving a width of about 15 feet for the cherub’s body. These are huge creatures!

In 2nd Chronicles we learn:

“Moreover, the sound of the wings of the cherubim was heard as far as the outer court, like the voice of God Almighty when He speaks.”

So, it was really loud.

In Ezekiel 28, there is a passage about the King of Tyre, referring to the devil or Satan when it was in the Garden of Eden as described by the LORD:

“You were the seal of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty. You were in Eden, the garden of God; every precious stone adorned you: carnelian, chrysolite and emerald, topaz, onyx and jasper, lapis lazuli, turquoise, and beryl. Your settings and mountings were made of gold; they were prepared on the day you were created. You were anointed as a guardian cherub, for so I ordained you. You were on the holy mount of God; you walked among the fiery stones.”

Well, this sets my imagination ablaze.

No film or book that I have ever seen described the Devil this way. Can you imagine seeing this thing, 30 feet wide, probably the same height, standing before you? Like some massive bedazzled mutant mecha from an anime film?

Now maybe you understand why, when a messenger angel appeared, before the message was delivered it said, FEAR NOT! Not that telling the cowering humans to fear not would have stopped them from cowering.

And outside of Biblical reference there is the Book of Enoch which describes interactions with Angels, giants, and even a reference that seems to be looking down on the Earth from orbit in space.

There are countless stories from cultures all over the world where gods from the sky came down to enslave or enlighten humanity.

Specifically in the ancient Sumerian texts they seem to be modifying the native Earthlings using genetic manipulation.

Something that may actually be going on right now.

The main point of this video is to make you think about how you have been taught to see the events of the Bible vs how those events are actually described literally in the text.

If you are a Bible Scholar, then you might believe that this or that is merely a metaphor, but you don’t know for sure. And that splinter of doubt is there.

Was it all the way we were told, or is it possible that the fantastic events were interactions with non-terrestrial beings from another dimension, planet, or star system?

In Hindu tradition there are ancient texts called Vedas. In those books are descriptions of great battles fought in the skies above the Earth in spacecraft known as Vimana. Did that really happen? Who are you to say if it did or didn’t? Are you more knowledgeable of the ancient past than those who witnessed it and wrote down what they saw?

I don’t know the answer, and neither do you. We have beliefs, and those beliefs may be perfect and valid; however, I must consider the possibility that some of what I have been taught is just a certain point of view.

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