why was god using a chariot of fire to move around the sky in?

Question

i thought he was everywhere all the time.and there is more talk of these chariots in the bible.mabey the people were describing ufos,given their lack of understanding an advanced technology.just curious.your theory is welcome.

Answer 1

I think these may have been early accounts of UFO's. Suppose "God" is a super-evolved being, or one of a great many super evolved beings who can bend time and warp through space? I don't know. I don't think anyone does. But there is some compelling evidence that several of the miracles (and disasters) mentioned in ancient texts were tied to nuclear weapons, UFO sightings, and advanced knowledge of medicine and healing techniques. I was reading this ancient Indian book written before the Upanishads about these dudes making spaceships! Oh, and it includes details about HOW to make them!! I think they were called vimanyas or something like that.

Things like this intrigue me. I'll do some more research for the both of us. Although, it is so weird. I was able to pull that book up on the net just a year ago, now, I cannot find it to save my life. I think someone is playing filter for us, not wanting us to know certain things. I feel there is truth within it.

Answer 2

Many ancient religions describe gods that flew in the air in fiery chariots and celestial boats, (Christians, Hindus, Egyptians, Natives like the Dogon etc.) Think about it, the only words they had for vehicles were these. So I think it is obvious they are describing some kind of flying vehicles. Pictures have been found in Egypt of what appears to be Apache helicopters, airplanes, and rocket ships that were drawn by the ancients thousands of years ago. A flyable model airplane was even found in one of the pyramids. Many unexplained world mysteries exist in our past, many people may not be aware of them but they still exist and cannot be explained, (see the world mysteries website).

How did people originally get the idea that the gods lived in Heaven? Why not under the earth, or the sea? For some reason they got this idea. Many cultures have stories that men or gods came from the stars, left at some time and promised to return some day, even native Americans. I think there is a good possibility that the gods of the ancients were aliens.

Answer 3

I think the prophets had no concept of how to describe things like helicopters, planes, etc., so used the only terminology they knew of to describe any type of passenger vehicle, which at the time was probably only chariots or wagons. In Ezekiel it describes how loud the wings were in the thing the cherubims were riding. The cherubim were called the "living creatures", but part of what he described wasn't them, it was their vehicle. When you think of how loud a helicopter is, it kinda makes sense, and in the desert, a helicopter would seem a lot like a whirlwind, but then you gotta wonder why God or cherubim would need a helicopter.

Flyersbible, you really should read Ezekiel, chapters 1 and 10.

Answer 4

2Ki 2:11 As they continued walking and talking, a chariot of fire with horses of fire suddenly appeared and separated the two of them. Then Elijah went up into heaven in the whirlwind.

This passage does not indicate that "god" was "using a chariot of fire to move around the sky in". It is a single specific passage in a single specific story.

Answer 5

The BIG chariot of fire is the Sun. Smaller more numerous chariots of fire are stars, comets, meteorites. Remember the ancient peoples had no clue as to what these objects genuinely were. Appearing at random times as they did and surprising everybody they had to be connected to some sort of higher being or god.

Answer 6

This could possibly be imagery “borrowed” from other religions. Helios, Ra, and various other Sun Gods were said to ride in a chariot across the sky!

Answer 7

If you believe that the Bible or the Quran or the Torat are divine, that is they are the words of God, then you will not believe that the words are descriptions of UFO sitings because why would GOD describe UFO sitings?? My answer comes from the belief that the three holy books of Bible, Quran and Torat are divine books in the words of the same God.

In Islam (I am trying to connect the dots here and think outside the box), Muslims are taught that for example God has a throne on which he sits. We are taught that God's throwne is beyond our imagination. That we think of it as a chair but that it is undescribable. I will site a verse from the Quran here:

وسع كرسيه السماوات و الأَرض

which mean his chair (his throwne) is as large as the skies and the earth. This concept is so vast!! I mean as large as the skies and the earth?? Some people even go as far as saying that the skies and the earth are God's throwne according to this verse. So you see, the concept of a throwne is very human and easy to understand but try applying the concept to God and it suddenly does not make sense because we can only think within our imagination.

I have read that a human's imagination is limited to what the human has seen or encountered in life and to combinations of those things seen and encountered in life. That is, the human imagination is just a set of logical connections between concepts or pictures that the human have seen in his lifetime. For example, if you describe to a person who has never seen snow or a picture or snow or anything close to snow, if you ever describe snow to that person, that person cannot possibly conceive it without connecting existing information like "white" and "soft" and "falls from the sky like the rain". So without seeing snow, one cannot imagine snow. We can't see God, but we can try to imagine God through these various concepts that we are trying to put together. Now we try not to imagine what God is or what he looks like in Islam because Islam advises against that. That is another reason why we think God chose to describe things in human concepts such as a chariot and a chair.

We are also tought that we cannot conceive God as a concept. That our imagination is limited to what we see in our dimensions. We do not feel other dimensions, we do not see them, and so we do not understand them. I haven't studied the bible so I do not know if it is the same concept but in the Quran God is described in many ways that you would think are humanly conceivable but are in fact vastly different from the human nature.

For example, we learned that Gabrielle (the angel) has 64 wings. Now the we draw angels is with two wings and we cannot really understand how 64 wings work, right? Like two are enough wouldn't ya think? Well, this is a concept beyond our imagination and Gabrielle's wings may not be wings at all in our world but this is the closest that God chose to describe Gabrielle's form to use such that we have some understanding of angels.

I also read somewhere that God made the Quran and Torat and Bible so humanly understandable. That is, if God had described things or himself in other ways that humans would not understand it and would find it repelling (because humans do tend to fight the unknown out of fear or misunderstanding). So for example, a chariot might not be a chariot at all in the way we understand it but it is the way that God chose to describe things to us because this is how we would understand it, otherwise we would be bedazzled or will misunderstand in a manner that would push us away from religion. Many concepts in Holy books are either exceptionally simplified or exceptioanlly exaggerated to get the message through to people.

Think of it as if you as an adult was trying to explain something to a child. You will not use big words or words that a child will not understand but rather you would try to use words and descriptions that are appealing to the child in the sense that the child can understand them. So you will not go to the child and use words like "monogomy" or "paranormal" but you would choose words like "father" or "apple" etc. So imagine that God is like an adult talking to children (some religions call us the children of God, maybe this will explain why) so we are spoken to within our limits. God is not going to impose on us words and concepts that we cannot possibly understand or we will be like a child trying to understand the word "monogomy" when the child does not even understand the concept or marriage or wife or husband yet.

Answer 8

The Bible says nothing about God moving around in a chariot of fire. You need to research your questions more carefully.

Answer 9

The origin of Judaism lies in the polytheism of the Sumerians. In those ancient religions, the gods were to them what we might call superheroes - magical humans living in the sky (heaven). The charriots of fire were one mode of transportation back and forth to heaven. The other mode was simply to fly, which is why angels were said to have wings.

It's mythology, nothing more.

Answer 10

Since God is a pure spirit and invisible, it is reasonable to think that He would choose to appear, traveling in an impressive ball of fire.