Gods as Extraterrestrials

Despite the impression one gets from textbooks, our current knowledge of the universe represents a small island in a vast ocean of ignorance. The scientific enterprise is all about expanding the landmass of this island. And it is fun to engage in the activity of gaining knowledge; knowing everything in advance would have been much more boring. Still, it would be shocking to learn all at once of the discoveries of an alien civilization that been doing scientific and technological exploration for billions of years, in contrast to our mere few centuries.

The eminent science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke codified this idea in the third of his three laws : “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” Put another way, members of such a civilization would appear to us as a pretty good approximation to God.

Meeting a piece of advanced technological equipment developed by an extraterrestrial intelligence might resemble an imaginary encounter of ancient cave people with a modern cell phone. At first, they would interpret it as a shiny rock, not recognizing it as a communication device. The same thing might have happened in reaction to the first detection of an interstellar visitor to the solar system, ‘Oumuamua, which showed six peculiar properties but was nevertheless interpreted as a rock by mainstream astronomers. SOURCE: Scientific American

So...  what does that say about our own religious beliefs in Christianity?  Is our Father/Creator an Ancient Alien and more importantly was Jesus an extraterrestrial?

If one were to compare all the mythologies of the world to the stories contained in THE BIBLE, one would see similarities among all these stories.  There is a great flood in all these mythologies.  There is a Creator in all these mythologies.  There is a savior in all these mythologies with a death and resurrection story.

Additionally, if one were to look at all the various ancient architectural structures all over the world one we see the connection that when these structures were created, the people of that time did not have the technical abilities to construct such structures...  leaving one to question how were they all built?

It is fitting that we think about things like this on a Sunday...  our day of faith and spiritual education, gathering with those who believe like us to share companionship and reinforce each other's beliefs.