'Zat so? They must’ve put him in a Bacta tank or something, then, since having nails shoved through your wrists and feet (not to mention getting stabbed in the side with a spear, or the beatings he took prior to the crucifixion) would have taken a helluva lot more than 3 days to heal…
According to Zecharia Sitchin, we are a genetically engineered species which were created by the Annunaki from the planet Nibiru, and all the “Ancient Gods” stories were about aliens. At least, that what he says the Sumerians recorded. Can’t argue with the Sumerians, now can you?
ssj_man2k said:
Well, I think showing some cro-magnons a gun would be pretty impressive. It would imply that we’ve invented time travel!
What if an alien visitor, inspired by our Earthly religious teachings, interpreted his other-worldly powers to be a sign that he was himself the Messiah? Larry Cohen made a movie called God Told Me To that touches upon this premise in some interesting and bizarre ways (plus, Andy Kaufman plays a murderous rogue cop!)
Jesus being an alien is an interesting concept. It reminded me of an idea I was playing with too.
What if Jesus was nothing more than just a regular old human? No alien from another planet, but just another human, like the people he was sharing his love to. What is Jesus, God, and Christianity is nothing more than an attempt by the future to change the present? Lost yet? Let me slow it down.
Small things in the past lead up to the today we know. Like how what we do today, makes or breaks the future of those after us. Well, taking a less religious road, we might very well have killed ourselves off by now. Most basic religions teach to treat others as you wish to be treated. And some people fail to grasp that concept, but if some do, than that makes the world a better place. If that message, and others like it weren’t placed in the minds and hearts of people at an early age, who would have known the outcome. Perhaps we’d focus in on nature, or technology more.
In a technological tomorrow, we’re at the edge of madness and death, so some people with some ideas head out to yesterday to make a better today. Who’s to say we can’t master space travel and time travel? What if these people decide," We’re going to make life better by giving these people something they can carry on into the future. Something to help them love eachother, then maybe this Hell we live in now wouldn’t be"
The Star of Bethlehem could have been, like people today have been known to mistake, a weather balloon. “It wasn’t a UFO, it was a weather balloon” or " Look at that star, it’s so bright. I know, let’s follow it" I know, not word for word, but you get the idea.
The Virgin Mary. Well, it’s hard for some people to grasp the concept of a Virgin giving birth. It’s easier to say it’s a miracle than to say “I’m having someone else’s baby” Yes, I do have faith that she gave birth to the son of God. But who’s to say it wasn’t just simple artficial insimination. Again, something ridiculous then, but easily worked now.
Miracles of yesterday are simple answers of today. I mean, deceases have evolved so much. Something that makes us sick now could probably wipe out a civilazation of yesterday. It works backwards too. Some deadly deceases can be easily cured by now.
Using a more Star Trek feel, water to wine, the story of the bread and fish. Just turn on the transporter and nothing there, now it is.
Who’s to say this isn’t too far out of the realm of posibility too? Yes, we’re not to better off now, and maybe that’s cause we took a good idea and made a belief structure behind it. Yes, I am ripping off “Dogma” People do make their own understanding of words. If you look at a woman in lust, then in your heart you’ve sinned. And if your left eye is the one that did the seeing, then pluck it out as to not condemn your whole body. Again, not word for word, but do you see too many people walking around with eye patches? I mean, if this were word for word understanding, braille would be our only way of reading, and dogs would be our very best friend.
Now my ramble has gotten too long and I lost the point. Anyways, I’ve added my two cents. Thanks for reading
That is interesting. It could be true.
And about the time travel thing. I was just trying to make a point that peoples with superior technology may seem god like to peoples with lesser technology.
Some experts think that Jesus was not nailed to the cross. And if he was, he would of died of blood loss within a matter of hours.
What did Clarke say?
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”
Correct me if I am wrong in the quote. Just something to consider.
That would be Clarke’s Third Law.
I prefer his 69th Law: “Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software.” 
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He supposedly DID die in a matther of hours.
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It’s also believed that he died relatively quickly for someone being crucified, which was favored by the Romans 'cuz it was SLOOOOOW. However, I imagine that the stabbing he took from the spear helped with things. Additionally, weren’t his legs broken, as well? Or am I just crossing my Christianity with the movie Misery?
Well, you might want to figure out which parts of the Gospels you are going to believe and which parts you are going to discard. After all, you are picking and choosing the parts you want to support your theory and chucking those that seem to cause you problems.
But let’s look at it. I am the head of a NASA expidition, about two hundred years from now. We have, after tremendous effort and expense (witness the present NASA budget), finally perfected the technology for star travel. We jump in our new starship, and travel to Alpha Centari, where we find (wonder of wonders!) a race of people that look pretty close to ourselves. So, as head of an interstellar expedition, I authorize genetic experimentation on a particular female of that race. She bears a son. I keep track of that hybrid through its lifetime, giving it special education and helping it to do “miracles” by the standards of this technologically backwards race. I keep my people there for thirty years or more, recording and interfering in this race’s development, getting this person to spout some pretty idiotic bullcrap (“oh, you broke the law of this society? That’s all right, I forgive you. Your God has given me the power to do that.”) When the government of this society finally goes bannanas enough to execute my guinea pig, I beam him up, repair him, addle his brain on the ship enough that when I beam him down again he thinks he’s been in heaven. He spouts some more bullcrap, and then I take him up in the ship for some final tests before going home, leaving the society behind in total confusion.
Yup. Sounds like a good expenditure of budget funds to me.
I mean for Pete’s sake, will you examine it for a second? Does this pass the laugh test for even a millisecond?
Alien. snort
The thing that gets me about most UFO theories is that they assume things that so violate common sense (forget science and similar things) that no sane race would ever even consider them. Come accross the universe to mutilate some cattle for a hamburger? Come on, guys.
“Hey, Zog. Let’s make another crop circle. I love it when those humans go crazy with those crop circles.” 
ssj_man2k said:
Yes, I know. It was a joke, son.
But they didn’t heal. That’s how he was able to tell Thomas to stick his hands in the wounds.
dlb - I agree with you up to a point, but you are assuming that there must be no motive that would be apparent to a future or alien civilization that wouldn’t be apparent to us now. This is not necessarily the case.
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The thieves got their legs broke, not Jesus, which was somewhat, shall we say, convenient. Also, conveniently, he died the same day. Crucifiction deaths usually result from dehydration, which can take at least a long hot day, but more like three (given excellent conditions, one guy managed for eight days without water). The stab wound would have to have been pretty serious, then.
I don’t think Jesus died on the cross either. I think he set something up with the Romans, who could be bribed, into a crucifiction, which can be faked (though, admittedly, not without some pain). He could never pull this with the other large group at the time, the Jews…it is pretty hard to fake a stoning
Yes, yes, alien viewpoint and all that. But science fiction aside, I really don’t think we have to bend over backwards to give “aliens” completely incomprehensible motives. Food, reproduction, energy, and resources are pretty much givens; the laws of physics don’t vary. I don’t insist that “Friends” show up on alien TV screens, that they all use the same operating systems so our computer viruses work on their systems (“Independence Day”, what nonsense), or that they have a two party system. But let’s not go overboard and have them do completely incomprehensible things and then try to justify them by saying, “Well, they’re aliens — they do alien things.” We should have some kind of motivation in mind. Genetic manipulation and using advanced technology to change the religion of an inferior species may make a good story, but unless we can come up with something they have gotten out of it, I would rule it out of court.
Thinking that he is an alien makes the baby Jesus cry.
They don’t have to vary. It is not inconceivable to have reached such a state of technology that a species could not have to worry about resources anymore. It is a very, very, large universe. Having reached such a state, what would life be like?
Jesus being an alien makes sense to you? That to me requires a greater leap of faith than anything in the Gospels.
How about Jesus as a magician? Think about it. If Jesus had the prestidigitave abilities of say, the Amazing Kreskin, could not people at that time percieve him to be more than human? I don’t know how he could have pulled off some of the things that the bible says, but much of it could be explained through “magic”.
Come to think of it, Doug Henning kinda looked like…ah, never mind.
** All i know is that Jesus DID NOT die on the cross, but was taken before he died, and revived, and at the end of the 3 day period, presented to the people, who thought he was resurrected.
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How do you KNOW this? Have you some sort of written account about Christ’s death that states verifiable facts opposite that of the bible? That would be very interesting indeed.
Geez, doesn’t anyone watch the classics like The Life of Brian any more? He wasn’t an alien; he was an alien abductee!
Jesus may have been a magician. That certainly makes sense, too.
But I know Jesus did not die on the cross because back in those days, resurrection from such a death would be impossible, even in these days too. The only way for him to be resurrected was for him to be an alien which had the technology too; but if he wasn’t an alien, than he wouldn’t have been able to be resurrected.