Gospel from the Stars
As the world marks the seventy-fifth anniversary of the famous Roswell UFO incident, humanity is primed and ready to welcome ET. This is especially true in America, which has clearly moved into a post-Christian era.
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As the world marks the seventy-fifth anniversary of the famous Roswell UFO incident, humanity is primed and ready to welcome ET. This is especially true in America, which has clearly moved into a post-Christian era.
Read moreWith the recent admission by the United States Department of Defense that remarkable videos captured by US Navy F-18s purporting to show UAVs—Unidentified Aerial Vehicles, the modern term for UFOs—are genuine, we’re going to devote several columns to putting this subject in context. You may be surprised to learn that the modern UFO is just a sci-fi veneer on a very old phenomenon.
Read moreUnfortunately for us, English doesn’t convey the full sense of the Hebrew words that describe the supernatural beings in the Bible. For example, our English word “angel” covers a range of entities—cherubim
seraphim, ophanim, malakim, bene elohim, and others in Hebrew, as well as archangels and Watchers. That’s made it easier for scholars and theologians to get around the idea that multiple gods are clearly described in the Bible.
Doctrines from belief systems as diverse as speculative Freemasonry and the New Age movement are built around the idea that we are all divine and could return to that transhuman, übermensch state, if we’d just recognize and develop the spark within us.
Read moreOne of the burning questions in the minds of humans since the beginning of the time has been, “Where do I go when I die?”
Read moreBaal-Peor was apparently the lord of the entrance to the underworld—or, at the risk of being sensationalistic, “Lord of the Gates of Hell.”
Read moreYou are no doubt familiar with the basic outline of the story of Father Abraham: He faithfully followed God’s call and left his home in northern Mesopotamia, near Harran (it’s spelled with two Rs outside the Bible) and traveled to Canaan. God promised that his descendants would return from Egypt to Canaan and become a great nation.
Read moreOne of the giants killed by David and his men during Israel’s war with the Philistines carried the unusual name Ishbi-benob
Read moreThe area east of the Dead Sea, and especially near the ruined city of ancient Sodom, was a place where it was believed that the dead intervened in the affairs of the living. In fact, two of the stops along the Exodus route refer to places where the veil between worlds was believed to be thin.
Read moreBefore God revealed the true nature of the afterlife to us through Jesus and, to a lesser degree, the prophets and apostles, the ancient world had a very different idea about what came after death.
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