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- FLYING SAUCERS: THE BIBLE CONNECTION
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- Bible scholar, Barry Downing, firmly believes that biblical teachings were
- inspired by extraterrestial beings who camw to earth in flying sausers. Downing
- was so convinced, he wrote a book about his theory called THE BIBLE AND FLYING
- SAUCERS (Lippincott,New York, 1968).
- In the book, Downing says the bible clearly points out how UFOs played a
- strong role in the evolution of the Hebrew-Christian faith. For example,
- Downing believes the Scriptures suggest that Jesus' resurrection occured when
- he was beamed up from Earth by a flying saucer.
- Downing also believes that the bright cloud that led the people of Israel
- through the Red Sea, parting the waters and then engulfing the Egyptions, was a
- UFO.
- The Author even claims it was space beings who spoke to Moses from the
- middle of a glowing thicket, and later spoke to Elijah outside the cave,forcing
- the prophet to sheild his eyes because of the brightness. A UFO took Jesus away
- at the Ascension, and hovered over Paul and his followers on the Damascus Road,
- Downing contends.
- Further, the author claims the three wise men probably followed a UFO to
- Bethlehem, since stars do not move or abruptly stop in the manner the bible
- describes.
- Downing claims that evidence proving UFOs could be hazardous to human health
- can also be found in the Bible. He points to references to the Egyptians
- drowning in the Red Sea, warning Moses not to approach too near the burning
- bush, and warnings given his followers not to approach Mount Sinai, as proof.
- The author points out other mystifying events in the Bible that he believes can
- only be interpreted to mean the participants had contact with UFOs,
- For example, he points out that when Moses decended from Mount Sinai with
- two tablets in his hands, Exodus records that the skin of his face shone from
- talking with God. And he says the NEW TESTAMENT describes how Jesus began to
- glow when in contact with a bright object on a mountain.
- When the Tabernacle was built, Downing cotends the priests serving it were
- told by ETs what clothing to wear to protect themselves against radiation,
- because the UFO hovered like a cloud over the tent enclosing the Tabernacle.
- Downing believes this precaution could have brought about the Jewish custom of
- wearing skullcaps into houses of worship. The author even suggest mutations in
- the growth of biological life caused by radiation could have resulted in the
- plagues described in Exodus.
- Downing further theorizes that Einstein's curvature of space theory provides a
- clue to the place where heaven is located. The author contends Jesus may have
- meant that the kingdom of heaven quite literally rests in the midst of us,
- meaning that heaven is on an entirely different plane or wave length, invisible
- to us, but existing parallel to our own and connected by bends or warps in the
- space-time continuum.
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- 06/01/90 By Airick
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