(August 1, 2017 at 3:20 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote: Well I agree that there are a lot of religious books, but do they count as knowledge?
Humans have had close encounters of various kinds with offworld beings for thousands of years, and the Bible neatly puts them all under one cover..
Truthseekers nowadays are fascinated by them, and interpret them in a modern light, for example-
"And God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it. As he was destroying, the Lord looked and relented of the disaster, and said to the angel who was destroying, "It is enough; now restrain your hand."
Then David lifted his eyes and saw the angel of the Lord standing between earth and heaven, having in his hand a drawn sword stretched out over Jerusalem" (1 Chronicles 21:16/16)