Quote:I watched a few of the Misler "alien" videos linked above. Pretty interesting stuff. Gotta finish those. Anyway, it occurred to me when I was writing FH that some people will seize upon UFO phemomena as an explanation for the rapture, 'cause let's face it, the "rapture theory" is impossible. It's gotta be something else. LOL Can't you just envision the government and military types squirming in the media spotlight as they try to explain this? Delicious. kp
Actually kp, that's what Malone and many others claim how the rapture will be explained away. :) However I have the feeling that if Yada is right and the rapture does happen by 2026, like Dr. Scott once said-there will be so few people taken it won't be noticed (also look how fox and other news agencies are being consolidated-in 20 years our media will probably be able to 'keep it quiet' to a large degree).
Quote: I've not seen the vids, take to long to load, but I don't think I need to. I personally don't believe in "aliens", i.e. created, intelligent life forms other than those on this planet. Why would there be? Yah knew the grief and misery that would befall His creation on this planet as a result of poor choices. Would He allow this scenario to occur anywhere else? I'm going to say an emphatic, "No". I believe His plan for relationship is being played out on earth. Also, I believe it would necessarily follow that Satan would also inject his game plan into any other relationship scenario and for the same reason/s. This then would require yet another crucifixtion. Nope, ain't gonna happen, unless of course the "fallen Creation" on Planet X is informed of their redeemer and His sacrifice which took place on earth. So as you can see, this 'other creation/s', (and thus "aliens"), scenario is nonsense and has more holes than a block of swiss cheese.
Well, while I think there are no extra terrestrial biological entities out there that eat, sleep and hate their jobs like us, the idea of et life really wouldn't be that big of an issue. Yahweh has a special relationship with the human race and an alien life form may be on the same level as an animal would be (with soul only, not spirit), plus they
may have had the same choice we had, but had the wisdom not to side with the devil so he wouldn't bother with them since the messiah manifests himself through our flesh and blood making humans his chief target of attack. As I said, I don't believe in biological et's-but there also could be civilizations of angels out there doing all kinds of cool stuff. When we get to heaven, we can meet up with Yada and take a road trip to the galaxies to see. ;)
Quote:Then there's the "fallen angels/demons are aliens" school of thought. Yeah, right. Demons are spirit which means they are non-coporeal. That being so, why would they need spacecraft and how could they be seen?
Well, I don't think angels are non-corporeal at all. Check out Genesis 19:1-11 In that incident, two angels entered Sodom met Lot and shared a meal with him, and then had to use their power to run off a group of guys who wanted to nail them from behind (which makes you wonder, was their sin just homosexuality only? or perhaps they were used to fallen angels stopping by to do the unspeakable on a regular basis?!). Also in the New Covenant, it is mentioned Satan and Micheal wrestling over the body of moses, how can two immaterial spirits try to grab each other? It makes more sense if they have they have some kind of physical nature. Since fallen angels have cut themselves off from Yahweh, perhaps they have lost some of their powers in the process, so a technological craft to enable them to zip around might not be as far-fetched as it would seem. Posing as aliens, it would be easy to dazzle our senseless politicians with the promise of adavanced tech for compliance to their wishes.
As for demons, there are some people who speculate that demons and fallen angels might be different. In the book of Enoch (quoted in the New Covenant) it is claimed that when the offspring of the sons of god and human women were killed in the flood, the spiritual part survived as the demons who sneak around and cause mischief today. Now while it isn't a canonical book, it is an interesting idea (Here's a presentation on the Book of Enoch by Guy Malone:
http://video.google.com/...ype=search&plindex=0)
(Yada, when you have a chance could you try amplifiying Enoch?)
Quote:his Gen 6 giant scenario is a fraud, not to mention that the passage doesn't actually teach that giants existed when the hebrew is accurately translated.
Well, from what I read the actual word is Nephilim which got mistranslated to the greek as 'giants' and it refers to 'men of renown', in other words men who might be the same size as you or I (but sometimes big like Goliath) who were physically and mentally a step or two ahead of the rest of us as well as having 'psychic' powers. Look at Greek mythology and other stories and look how many times there are people running around who are children of the 'gods'. Every myth has a grain of truth. Perhaps some of this activity was going on in Cannan when Joshua started his attack for Yahweh. Look at Numbers 13:23-with a branch and a cluster of grapes that took two men to carry! Sounds like genetic tampering to me. genetic contamination of the people there would help to explain why Yahweh was so intent on wiping them out. While a lot of this is speculation, I know but keep an open mind-while much evil is demonic, there may well be some creepy stuff out there with a very real physical nature.