re: Religious Leaders Told to 'Prepare Now' for UFO Disclosure and 'Bible-Changing' Revelation

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Thank you for the insight. How do we rationalize the transition from many gods to a singular God today?

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No problem.

Modern Jews and Christians might outwardly say that they believe in one God, but what is going on is they believe in a pantheon of deities, but that one deity created all the other deities and those created deities are subordinate to the creator. The creator deity they call “God” with a capital G, and all the other deities they use other terms such as angels or demons or powers or principalities or archons.

Go to a Catholic mass. The priest is liable to mention all those angels, demons, powers, principalities, and rulers who live in the skies and heavens. He just doesn’t call them gods. The title “God” is an honorific title reserved for the one they worship. All the other imaginary divine invisible spirits of the heavens, the earth, or under the earth (all the ones the Israelites were forbidden to make images of in exodus 20) are demoted from “gods” to a less glorious term. In Hebrew all these deities, including Yahweh (the one they worshipped after El Elyon the high god and father of Yahweh) were called “elohim” which is a plural word that was applied to invisible spirits. Psalms 82 and 89 in your English Bible likely preserves the distinction between “God” and “gods”. The Greek speaking Christians didn’t like calling the lesser gods the same word used for the particular god they worshipped, so they gave them names the pagans already used of their deities.

The average Christian probably doesn’t realize any of this. Read Ephesians 6:12 and 1 Cor 2. Christians thought that the lesser deities were very powerful, perhaps nearly as powerful as their deity they worshipped, but that “God’s” secret plan to get those deities to kill the “monogenes” (one of a kind, often translated as only-begotten) would defeat them when the monogenes would be resurrected and exalted (and earning the name “Jesus” after his death and resurrection).

Lots of ignorant Christians will surely retort “one” if you ask them how many gods there are. They will short circuit their neurons or make up some kind of excuse when they read psalm 82 - saying “those gods were just human authorities”… bullshite

Then take them to Psalm 89, and ask were those gods just people who lived in the skies?

The singular God thing really is indefensible. There is no monotheism contained with the Bible or Christian thought.

There were some monotheistic cults before Judaism and Christianity… one was the cult of Akhenaten (who worshipped the “one true God” called “Aten” in Egypt). Another was early versions of Persian Zoroastrianism before they incorporated Ahriman Ha Satan as the evil nemesis of Ahura Mazda. Some sects of Israelite religions and Christianity adopted the evil nemesis of Zoroastrianism, dropped “Ahriman” from the name, and simply called him “Satan”. Some Christians centuries later even invented the idea that “Satan” was the snake in the garden of Eden in Genesis 2-3.

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I'd be interested in your perspective from a historical as well as faith if you are up for it.

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I think you just got the historical perspective. I don’t have faith in a religious sense.

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I think it is important to the overall discussion of how revealing alien life would impact Christian belief.

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I don’t think it would impact it at all. Think about it. The Bible says the earth is a flat disk supported by pillars driven into a water abyss. There is a solid glasslike/metal-like dome above the earth, which also sits on giant pillars, and this dome holds up a heavenly ocean of water. The sun and moon and stars sit inside this firmament and are simply little lights, and light itself doesn’t even come from the sun (because in Genesis 1, light and day were made before the sun was made). We absolutely know there could never have been a global flood and we know positively there never was a global flood. We know the whole earth isn’t 6000 years old and that all people didn’t descend from 2 people (fictive Adam and Eve) or from 3 men (Shem, Ham, Japeth) from archaeological and genetic evidence. We even know the source texts the biblical authors used to compile and write their own versions of more ancient stories. Yet… Christians believe it is the divine word of an almighty deity… a deity who loses battles to Canaanite because they have iron chariots… a deity who has to have his son killed to defeat the other very powerful divine beings. Christians, and all religious believers for that matter, don’t care about reality one tiny bit. They are going to believe what they believe because they really really want to believe it. Some kind of way they can trick their brains - hypnotizing themselves - into believing things that are demonstrably false. Revealing of alien life won’t change anything about their beliefs.