Is God an Alien?

[DeistPaladin]

For the truly superstitious it does not even have to be all that "advanced."


http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/r...kooks.html

Even in Acts, we get an idea of just how gullible people could be. Surviving a snake bite was evidently enough for the inhabitants of Malta to believe that Paul himself was a god (28:6). And Paul and his comrade Barnabas had to go to some lengths to convince the Lycaonians of Lystra that they were not deities. For the locals immediately sought to sacrifice to them as manifestations of Hermes and Zeus, simply because a man with bad feet stood up (14:8-18). These stories show how ready people were to believe that gods can take on human form and walk among them, and that a simple show was sufficient to convince them that mere men were such divine beings. And this evidence is in the bible itself.

So, yeah, were there alien contact they would surely be considered 'godlike.'


Now all you need is evidence of such "aliens."

Off topic but I love that quote from the Bible for what it says between the lines. Ken Humphreys pointed out how there were "two Pauls" in the NT. The first was of the epistles, the bombastic religious bully who felt he answered only to Jesus and who didn't have any trouble arguing with other Christian leaders. In Acts, written much later, Paul becomes a sedate passive pawn, clearly subordinate to the other Christian leaders, particularly Peter, the poster boy for Catholicism. I couldn't help but notice in this passage that Paul is confused for Hermes, the messenger boy for Zeus, barely a god and more of a servant.

Ken's hypothesis is that Acts was written much later to co-opt the poster child for Marcionite Christianity much the same way they did with John the Baptist, the prophet for the rival Mandaens.