They wouldnt have known any other way to descibe highly technical events, other than to refer to them as Godlike.
2006-08-26 18:46:14 · 16 answers · asked by Big hands Big feet 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Better yet why do we find UFOs in ancient Christian paintings. If you don't believe me look it up.
2006-08-26 18:54:21 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You're absolutely correct, consider this ...
Human beings could be the next God, Adam and Eve.
Imagine the future, technology and space travel have advanced beyond all of today’s comprehension. In order to spread the human race around the universe, a couple (male and female) are transported to another planet in another solar system many millions of light years away from Earth. The planet has the necessary environment to sustain human life.
The couple are given an instruction booklet of do’s and don’ts in order to happily survive and flourish, and then the space traveller leaves for good and returns to Earth. The couple get down to business and breed.
In thousands of years to come, that new planet of humans will believe that the space traveller was God, the original couple was Adam & Eve, and that the instruction booklet was the Bible. Straight forward. Imagine where the current Bible’s God, Adam and Eve came from.
2006-08-27 01:48:25 · answer #2 · answered by Brenda's World 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think that this assumes that people in ancient times were more ignorant and stupid than we are today. I see no such proof of this based upon the complex societies they developed as well as the advancements and technologies they had. The concept of "God" to most of these people wasn't as primitive as most of us in our "modern" times seem to try to equate it with. People of the modern era seem to just revel and boost their own egos by somehow thinking that we are somehow smarter and less ignorant than our ancestors. We may have different technology and advanced in other ways, and yet the ancient stories still fascinate us and we can relate to the characters in these stories. Why? Because we are both humans and we haven't changed very much at all. The proof of this other than our ability to relate to stories with ancient characters can be seen in the very realization that we continually repeat history. Despite the technological advances and seemingly new ideologies, the reality is that we seem to still repeat the same successes and failures that our ancestors did. We seem to be equally on par with our ancestors. Thus our ancients probably wouldn't have considered a UFO to be "God", but they would have considered it to be another civilization that they weren't familiar with and whom they wanted to conquer and then learn and adopt their technology and knowledge into their own civilizations (which, coincidently, is what people talk about doing today).
People may have been around awhile, but we haven't changed all that much (only the props and parts of the settings on the stage have changed).
2006-08-27 02:55:49 · answer #3 · answered by gabriel_zachary 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There has been a lot of arguement to that effect. That when the ancients spoke of angels they were talking about the exact same thing as people who see aliens are talking about. It is my own opinion that ones perspective colors what we see to such a degree as to alter our perception of reality itself. For instance as a child I had a spirit guide, but having been raised a christian the only name I had for a spirit being was angel, so that is what I called it and how I percieved it. Luckily my perspective has broadened significantly since then.-Nitesage
2006-08-27 01:54:44 · answer #4 · answered by roannitesage 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
gabriel_zachary makes good points, but people STILL believe in gods and UFO's, today, so i don't see why the two wouldn't be conflated now OR then. the fae would seem to fit into this category, as well. john keel, not that i like to use the man as evidence for anything, lumps 'em all in as, "ultraterrestrials", and it's not a bad call, says i.
2006-08-27 03:02:45 · answer #5 · answered by altgrave 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's always been part of the human condition. We ascribe godhood to that which we don't understand. It's only in retrospect and with enlightenment that we come to realize the natural order of the universe.
2006-08-27 01:52:16 · answer #6 · answered by Shadow 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The people seeing God today think it's UFO s.
2006-08-27 03:27:48 · answer #7 · answered by Isolde 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe that the words "unidentified flying object" are not that complicated or highly technical.
2006-08-27 01:51:52 · answer #8 · answered by TJMiler 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God is really an alien or two who one day just got bored and tried to piss us off by pretending to be god.
2006-08-27 01:57:54 · answer #9 · answered by Sparkiplasma 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As they would for any event they couldn't explain with their technolog, eg earthquakes, weather, plague
2006-08-27 01:51:50 · answer #10 · answered by Chaoboy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋