Comments on: Does Ancient Scriptures Speak of Beings That Visited Us, From Other Worlds By Space Vehicles?

By: Marcin K

Marcin K — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 22:21:59 +0000

Ask they people who wrote them to get your answer.
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By: fflikka

fflikka — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 22:03:59 +0000

I have no definitive answers on that… no one possibly could.
I too have the 'wonderings' though.
I wonder if some of the passages come from someone trying to explain what to them was the unexplainable at that time.
Mountains quaking, smoking and melting… the sounds of very loud ram's horns… "waters" pouring from the steepest heights…
I can't help but wonder if Mt Sinai erupted.. earthquakes and storms shook and flashed…
In an attempt to explain, they attributed these things to a higher being… a God or beings from another world.
Pondering such passages is fascinating!
Thank you for asking.
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By: jplatt39

jplatt39 — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 21:13:59 +0000

Absolutely not. It should be completely obvious that these are all far more ambiguous than that. I will go so far as to agree that Ancient Scriptures speak of Beings That Visited Us, From Other Worlds, so long as we are not specific about what a world is — whether it means a planet or just some different environment.

Supplying one explanation for so many phenomena which most likely do not have one cause is a bit like doing a very short version of one of Lin Carter's sword and sorcery novels — the hardcore type with the guy with the sword, the sexy girl and nobody wearing many clothes except the wizards.

Carter had an awesome erudition about these sources, and he drew on them, but he was a rationalist and never pretended he was writing anything but commercial romances. He felt that made him better than some people. While I am not a rationalist, I agree.
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Afterword in Carter, Lin The Black Star (New York, Dell, 1976)