Of course the Bible has contradictory information. Human error in all the re-writes, although not intentional, caused the problem. Please read the following with a totally open mind. If you would like, send comments to: ssaltyddog@yahoo.com
“WHAT IF”
FIRST OF ALL, I WOULD LIKE TO SAY THAT I CANNOT ATTEND A CONVENTIONAL CHURCH WITHOUT BEING HYPOCRITICAL, BUT I FIRMLY BELIEVE IN GOD, JESUS, PRAYER, THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, LIFE AFTER DEATH, AND BASIC CHRISTIANITY. ALSO, IN IT’S UNALTERED AND ORIGINAL FORM, THE BIBLE WAS PROBABLY A MUCH MORE ACCURATE, THOUGH SIMPLISTIC, DOCUMENT THAN EXISTS TODAY.
HOWEVER, IT IS MY OPINION, THAT THROUGH THE SEVERAL DIFFERENT INTERPRETATIONS, REVISIONS, VERSIONS AND TRANSLATIONS OF BIBLICAL INFORMATION BY PERSONS WHO WERE IGNORANT TO MODERN SCIENCE, SCIENTIFIC PRINCIPLES, AND TECHNOLOGY, THE TRUE MEANINGS AND ACCURATE INTERPRETATION OF THE EVENTS RECORDED ORIGINALLY HAVE BEEN LOST. TO ME, THE BIBLE WAS INTENDED TO BE AN HISTORICAL DIARY OF A TRULY REMARKABLE VISIT AND A SERIES OF PROFOUND EVENTS THAT DID IN FACT OCCUR. IT IS SAD THAT MAN WAS NOT AT THE TIME, INTELLECTUALLY CAPABLE OF ACCURATELY COMPREHENDING AND RECORDING WHAT HE ACTUALLY SAW. BECAUSE OF THIS, MANS EARLY, AND ONGOING, INTERPRETATION OF RELIGIOUS DOCTRINE HAS TAKEN MANY AVENUES OF APPROACH, AND IN PRESENT REALITY, APPEARS TO ME TO HAVE BEEN INITIALLY BASED ON NAIVE CONJECTURE STIMULATED BY DIRECT EXPOSURE TO SEVERAL INSTANCES OF PROFOUND AND UNEXPLAINABLE PHENOMENON THAT OCCURRED BEFORE A MODERN UNDERSTANDING OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGICAL ABILITIES WAS DEVELOPED. HOWEVER, AS ONE LOOKS AT THE HISTORY OF MAJOR RELIGIOUS FACTIONS, IT IS APPARENT THAT ALTHOUGH THE INTERPRETATION AND FOLLOWING OF THIS DOCTRINE WAS GREATLY VARIED, THERE WERE SOME ABSOLUTES THAT DID NOT CHANGE.
SOME EXAMPLES ARE: ONE SUPREME BEING OR ENTITY SUCH AS GOD, BUDDHA, MOHAMMED, AND THE GREAT SPIRIT. ALSO, THERE IS LIFE AFTER DEATH, GOOD AND EVIL, AND RULES THAT MUST BE FOLLOWED TO THE BEST OF ONES ABILITY TO ACHIEVE ACCEPTANCE TO THE HIGHER LEVEL OF EXISTENCE AFTER PHYSICAL DEATH.
TODAY, WE KNOW THAT THE UNIVERSE IS IMMENSE. WE ALSO KNOW THAT GALAXIES WITHIN OUR UNIVERSE GO ON AND ON, AND THERE ARE PROBABLY MILLIONS UPON MILLIONS OF THEM IN EXISTENCE. MOST OF THESE GALAXIES CONTAIN UNCOUNTABLE NUMBERS OF STARS. (WHICH ARE SUNS) SOME OF THESE STARS ARE HUGE. OTHERS ARE TINY. SOME ARE VERY NEW AND SOME ARE EXTREMELY ANCIENT. SOME HAVE BURNED OUT, COLLAPSED UPON THEMSELVES, AND HAVE BECOME "BLACK HOLES IN SPACE, WHILE OTHERS HAVE EXPLODED IN SUPER-NOVA. BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY, SOME ARE ABOUT THE SAME SIZE UNIFORMITY AND CONSISTENCY OF OUR SUN. THROUGHOUT THE UNIVERSE, THERE ARE PROBABLY TRILLIONS UPON TRILLIONS OF STARS THAT ARE VERY MUCH THE SAME AS OUR SUN. IF ONE BELIEVES IN EXTRA TERRESTRIAL INTELLIGENT LIFE, ONE CANNOT LOOK INTO A CLEAR NIGHT SKY WITHOUT FEELING EXTREMELY HUMBLED AND INSIGNIFICANT. IT IS MY BELIEF THAT WE ARE MOST CERTAINLY, NOT THE ONLY RELIGIOUS AND INTELLIGENT LIFE IN OUR UNIVERSE.
WHAT IF:
ALL INTELLIGENT LIFE IS CREATED IN GOD’S IMAGE NO MATTER WHAT PHYSICAL CONFIGURATION IT HAPPENS TO BE IN.
WHAT IF:
"GOD”, THE CREATOR OF ALL THINGS, ELECTED TO ESTABLISH INTELLIGENT LIFE ON A FEW OF THOSE PLANETS AS HE DID HERE ON EARTH?
WHAT IF:
CREATION AND EVOLUTION ARE THE SAME. THE TWENTY-FOUR HOUR DAY IS MANS EARTHLY CONCEPT OF TIME BECAUSE IT FITS THE PHYSICS OF EARTH’S ROTATION IN ORBIT AROUND THE SUN, AND THE SPINNING OF THE PLANET ON IT’S AXIS.
WHAT IF:
ONE OF GOD' S DAYS EQUALS A BILLION OR SO OF OUR YEARS? TO PUT THIS INTO PERSPECTIVE, COMPARE A SINGLE ATOM TO OUR SOLAR SYSTEM, THEN COMPARE THE AVERAGE TIME REQUIRED FOR THE ELECTRONS (PLANETS) TO ORBlT AROUND THE NUCLEUS (SUN) AND THEN THINK OF THE SIZE/TIME RELATIONSHIP COMPARING OUR SOLAR SYSTEM TO THAT ATOM. THEN COMPARE OUR TINY SOLAR SYSTEM, AS AN ATOM, TO THE IMMENSITY OF THE UNIVERSE. SURELY, UNIVERSAL TIME CANNOT BE ON THE SAME SCALE AS MANS. IF THIS CONCEPT IS TRUE, THEN SIX OF "GOD'S" DAYS COULD EQUAL BILLIONS OF YEARS OF OUR EARTH TIME. WHEN MAN INTERPRETED AND WROTE "GOD'S" WORD (BIBLE) HE HAD NO ACCURATE CONCEPT OF THE UNIVERSE OR DIFFERENT TIME SCALES. SO SIX DAYS, (MANS INTERPRETATION OF "GOD'S” WORD) TO CREATE OUR EARTH COULD BE CORRECT FORM BOTH “GOD’S” WORD (BIBLE) AND DARWIN’S THEORY OF EVOLUTION.
WHAT IF:
“GOD’S” CREATION OF LIFE FLOWS ACROSS THE UNIVERSE AS A WAVE UPON THE OCEANS? (CONSIDER OUR PLANET BUT AS A SINGLE AND MINUSCULE GRAIN OF SAND UPON THE SHORES OF THE TINY ATOLL OF OUR GALAXY IN THE IMMENSE SEA OF THE UNIVERSE)
WHAT IF:
OTHER GALAXIES RECEIVED THE BLESSING OF LIFE A FEW OF “GOD’S” DAYS BEFORE OURS DID. WOULD NOT THIS MEAN THERE ARE BILLIONS OF PLANETS IN THE UNIVERSE THAT COULD HAVE INTELLIGENT LIFE AT LEAST A FEW HUNDRED THOUSAND YEARS ADVANCED TO OURS HERE ON EARTH?
WHAT IF:
THE “WAVE OF LIFE” IS STILL PROGRESSING? IF SO, THEN IS IT NOT POSSIBLE THAT WE COULD ALSO BE HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF YEARS AHEAD OF BILLIONS OF PLANETS.
WHAT IF:
THE “GARDEN OF EDEN” WAS NOT A LOCATION ON EARTH, BUT WAS THE ENTIRE PLANET? NO OTHER PLANET IN OUR SOLAR SYSTEM HAS ALL THE ELEMENTS REQUIRED TO SUSTAIN INTELLIGENT LIFE AS WE KNOW IT. SO, TO ME, IT IS A LOGICAL ASSUMPTION THAT THE “EDEN” OF OUR SOLAR SYSTEM IS EARTH. BUT, WHEN MAN INITIALLY WROTE ABOUT THE "GARDEN OF EDEN", HE WAS NOT INTELLIGENTLY AWARE OF OTHER PLANETS OR THE UNIVERSE. SO, A LOGICAL ASSUMPTION IN THAT TIME WOULD HAVE BEEN A LOCATION ON EARTH, NOT THE ENTIRE PLANET.
WHAT IF:
SEVERAL PLANETS EXIST THROUGHOUT THE UNIVERSE WITH INTELLIGENT LIFE THAT IS OLDER THAN WE ARE, AND THEY HAVE PROGRESSED AT CLOSE TO THE SAME RATE AS WE HAVE TECHNOLOGICALLY. WOULD NOT THIS MEAN THERE ARE MILLIONS OF PLANETS THAT COULD BE SCIENTIFICALLY AND TECHNICALLY HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF YEARS AHEAD OF US? WHEN ONE CONSIDERS THAT SINCE THE 1950's WE HAVE EXPONENTIALLY GROWN, AND IN LESS THAN FIFTY YEARS WE HAVE DEVELOPED TECHNOLOGY THAT HAS ALLOWED US TO MEDICALLY TRANSPLANT HUMAN ORGANS, MODIFY AND SELECT SPECIFIC GENES WITHIN THE "DNA" CHAIN TO PRODUCE COMPLETELY DIFFERENT SPECIES OR EXACT "CLONES “ SEND MEN AND MACHINES TO EXPLORE OUR SOLAR SYSTEM AND BEYOND, AND DEVELOP COMPUTER/COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT THAT IS PHENOMENAL, MULTI-GALACTIC SPACE TRAVEL WILL PROBABLY BE COMMON FOR OUR RACES WITHIN THE NEXT ONE OR TWO THOUSAND YEARS. FOR YEARS WE HAVE BEEN PROBING OUR GALAXY AND BEYOND WITH SUPER SENSITIVE ANTENNAS, SEARCHING FOR ANY ELECTRICAL FREQUENCY RADIO WAVE TRANSMISSIONS FROM AFAR THAT WOULD CONFIRM OTHER INTELLIGENT LIFE.
WHAT IF:
SOME OF THESE INHABITED PLANETS ARE TECHNOLOGICALLY MEGA-SUPERIOR TO US AND HAVE ALREADY BECOME MULTI-GALACTIC TRAVELLERS?
WHAT IF:
THESE SOCIETIES SENT MISSIONARIES TO OTHER GALAXIES AND PLANETS, AS WE HAVE SENT MISSIONARIES TO OTHER CONTINENTS HERE ON EARTH, TO SPREAD THE WORD OF "GOD".
WHAT IF:
OUR EARTH WAS A PLANET VISITED BY THESE MISSIONARIES IN THE TIME BEFORE CHRIST?
WHAT IF:
THESE MISSIONARIES DID NOT LOOK EXACTLY AS WE DO? ON EARTH, WE HAVE SEVERAL DIFFERENT RACES OF HUMAN BEINGS, BUT BECAUSE OF EARTH’S PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT, WE ARE ALL VERY SIMILAR IN BODY STRUCTURE.
WHAT IF:
THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL MISSIONARIES WERE, THOUGH HUMAN, DIFFERENT ENOUGH IN PHYSICAL STRUCTURE TO ATTRACT IMMEDIATE ATTENTION TO THEMSELVES IF THEY ATTEMPTED ANY DIRECT CONTACT AND INTEGRATION WITH OUR RACES? IN OUR EARLY DAYS, ESPECIALLY IN THE BC ERA, THE MISSIONARIES WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN ACCEPTED BUT WOULD HAVE SURELY BEEN KILLED OR WORSHIPED. HISTORICALLY, MAN HAS ALWAYS KILLED OR WORSHIPED WHAT HE FEARED, THAT WHICH WAS DIFFERENT, AND THAT WHICH HE COULD NOT UNDERSTAND.
WHAT IF:
THROUGH TECHNOLOGICAL MEANS THESE MISSIONARIES HAD THE ABILITY TO SELECT, COMMUNICATE WITH, AND ASSIST CERTAIN HUMANS. (LIKE MOSES AND THE OTHER PROPHETS) COULD NOT THESE SELECTED HUMANS ACT AS “INTERMEDIARIES” OF THE MISSIONARIES TO SPREAD THE WORD OF "GOD" AND PERFORM “MIRACLES” TO SHOW THE POWER OF GOD TO THE SKEPTIC’S AND CONVERT THEM TO CHRISTIANITY. (THINK WHAT A COMMON FLASHLIGHT WOULD DO THE MIND OF A PERSON THAT WAS TOTALLY IGNORANT TO ELECTRICITY OR ARTIFICIAL LIGHT.)
WHAT IF:
WHEN "GOD" DESCENDED UPON THE MOUNTAIN TOP " IN FIRE AND THUNDER" THE MISSIONARIES PHYSICALLY LANDED, DIRECTLY CONTACTED MOSES AND GAVE HIM, BURNED IN STONE, (BY LASER?) THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, WHICH GAVE RULES TO ALL INTELLIGENT HUMAN LIFE ON OUR PLANET. ALL RELIGIONS HAVE RULES BELIEVERS MUST ABIDE BY TO EXIST IN PEACE AND HARMONY WITHIN THEMSELVES AND THEIR SOCIETIES WHILE LIVING, AND TO GAIN ACCEPTANCE TO A HIGHER PLAIN OF EXISTENCE AFTER THE METAMORPHOSIS OF PHYSICAL DEATH.
WHAT IF:
THESE RULES ARE UNIVERSAL AND GOVERN ALL INTELLIGENT LIFE EVERYWHERE.
WHAT IF:
TRUE SIN WAS SO RAMPANT IN SODOM AND GOMORRAH THAT NOTHING BUT TOTAL DESTRUCTION COULD ELIMINATE THE STIGMA?
WHAT IF:
THE MISSIONARIES USED SOPHISTICATED WEAPONRY TO COMPLETELY OBLITERATE THE AREA. (NUCLEAR EXPLOSION?)
WHAT IF:
LOTT'S WIFE WAS EXPOSED TO THIS EXPLOSION AND WAS TURNED INTO A "PILLAR OF SALT” SIMILAR TO REPORTS OF WHAT HAPPENED TO SOME JAPANESE VICTIMS AT HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI?
WHAT IF:
ALL THE "MIRACLES” AND PROPHETS WERE NOT ENOUGH TO CONVINCE THE LEADER AND SKEPTICSS OF THE LAND THAT "GOD" DOES TRULY EXIST AND THE WAY OF THE LORD IS BEST? (CHRISTIANITY WAS LOSING THE BATTLE)
WHAT IF:
THE MISSIONARIES, THROUGH "DNA " TECHNOLOGY, COULD PRODUCE AN INDIVIDUAL THAT HAD THEIR ADVANCED KNOWLEDGE AND ABILITIES BUT APPEARED TO BE A TRUE "EARTHLING"? THIS “MAN" WOULD BE ABLE TO WALK AMONG AND MINGLE WITH THE GENERAL POPULOUS, SPREAD THE WORD OF "GOD" AND SURVIVE. TODAY, IT WOULD BE NO GREAT FEAT TO CREATE PREGNANCY IN A VIRGIN FEMALE. (OUR ABILITY WITH GENE AND "DNA” MANIPULATION IS PRESENTLY UNDERGOING RELIGIOUS, MORAL AND ETHICAL SCRUTINY.)
WHAT IF:
THROUGH COVERT ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION THE MISSIONARIES SELECTED MARY TO BE THE VIRGIN MOTHER OF JESUS?
WHAT IF:
THIS IS WHY JESUS SAID TO JOSEPH; “YOU ARE NOT MY FATHER. I AM NOT FROM THIS WORLD BUT FROM ABOVE.”
WHAT IF:
THE MISSIONARIES BROUGHT ATTENTION TO THE BIRTH OF JESUS BY CREATING THE "STAR OF BETHLEHEM" FROM ORBIT BY REFLECTING SUNLIGHT OR USING SOLAR POWERED GROUPS OF FOCUSED "HALOGEN" TYPE LIGHTS. (TODAY, WE ROUTINELY PLACE SOLAR AND BATTERY POWERED SATELLITES IN SYNCHRONOUS ORBIT THAT CAN TAKE DETAILED CLOSE-UP PICTURES OR ELECTRONICALLY "GRID" THE EARTH FOR NAVIGATIONAL PURPOSES.)
WHAT IF:
THE "ANGEL" THAT HOVERED OVER THE SHEPHERDS AND SAID: "FEAR NOT" WAS ACTUALLY AN EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL MISSIONARY WITH A SELF-CONTAINED FLYING DEVICE? (JETPACK) ONE UNDERSTANDS THERE WERE NO CAMERAS IN THOSE DAYS, AND THE GENERAL TECHNICAL CONCEPTION PROBABLY WOULD HAVE BEEN, ” WHATEVER FLIES HAS TO HAVE WINGS", SO WHEN ARTISTS DREW THE ANGELS, THEY DREW WINGED BEINGS.
WHAT IF:
"JESUS” WAS, AND IS, THE ULTIMATE INTERMEDIARY FOR THE MISSIONARIES.
WHAT IF:
JESUS SAVED THE WORLD FROM DESTRUCTION, AS SODOM AND GOMORRAH WAS DESTROYED, WHEN HE PLEADED WHILE DYING ON THE CROSS, "FORGIVE THEM FATHER, FOR THEY KNOW NOT WHAT THEY DO”. (AGAIN, MANKIND KILLS OR WORSHIPS WHAT IT FEARS)
WHAT IF:
JESUS’ BODY WAS REMOVED FROM THE TOMB RESURRECTED THROUGH MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY, AND THEN RETURNED TO EARTH AS THE SUPREME "MIRACLE”, AND SAVIOUR OF MANKIND FOR ALL TO SEE AND BEHOLD.
WHAT IF:
EVERY PLANET IN THE UNIVERSE THAT HAS INTELLIGENT HUMANOID LIFE AND HAS BEEN VISITED BY THE MISSIONARIES HAS A STRONG BELIEF IN "GOD", THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, AND ALSO HAS A SAVIOUR UNIQUE TO THEIR SPECIFIC PLANET AND SPECIES CALLED "JESUS"
WHAT IF:
AS OUR SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL ABILITIES EXPONENTIALLY MULTIPLY TO UNIMAGINABLE HEIGHTS, WE BECOME INTELLIGENT ENOUGH TO ACCEPT, WITHOUT FEAR, DIRECT CONTACT FROM FUTURE MISSIONARIES?
WHAT IF:
THIS CONTACT IS THE SECOND COMING OF "CHRIST"?
WHAT IF:
UFO’s ARE MONITORS OF OUR PROGRESSION, AND OUR READINESS FOR THE ACCEPTANCE OF THE SECOND COMING?
WHAT IF:
OUR ULTIMATE DESTINY, EITHER AS HUMAN FLESH AND BLOOD OR WHATEVER WE BECOME AS WE PASS ON THROUGH DEATH, IS TO SPREAD THE WORD OF GOD TO OTHER PLANETS TOUCHED BY THE "WAVE OF LIFE" THAT MAY STILL BE PROGRESSING THROUGHOUT THE UNIVERSE.
WHAT IF:
WE ARE, LIKE SO MANY OTHERS BEFORE US COULD BE THE MISSIONARIES OF THE FUTURE?
I REALISE; SOME THAT READ THIS WILL CONSIDER IT ABSURD. I ALSO REALISE THAT SOME WILL CONSIDER MY VIEWS BLASPHEMY. I AM NOT A BIBLICAL SCHOLAR. I HAVE NOT STUDIED ANY SPECIFIC RELIGION, NOR DO I HAVE ANY SCIENTIFIC BACKGROUND. HOWEVER, I DO BELIEVE THAT INTELLIGENT LIFE ABOUNDS THROUGHOUT THE UNIVERSE, AND BECAUSE OF THIS, I ALSO BELIEVE THAT WHAT I HAVE WRITTEN COULD BE TRUE. SEVERAL I HAVE SHARED MY VIEWS WITH AGREE. WHETHER YOU AGREE OR NOT IS YOUR PREROGATIVE.
IN CLOSING, I WOULD LIKE TO LEAVE YOU WITH THESE THOUGHTS:
WHAT IF:
MANKIND IS UNIVERSAL?
WHAT IF:
A UNIVERSAL QUESTION OF MAN IS "WHY AM I?"
WHAT IF:
THE ANSWER IS, “I AM WHY.”