The Christ Story
The mind is a funny thing – I was sitting writing a response to David, who posted a comment in Christmas Thoughts
and for some reason a thought I’ve had before came to mind. There’s kind of a causative link – I mentioned about how we don’t actually have the words of the Christ, we have secondhand versions of what are hopefully actual accounts of things. That seemed to lead to a conversation I had years back about whether there is alien life and how that impinges on the Christian story.
You see, Christianity relies very heavily on the Christ coming to us to die for our sins. Apparently God’s creation wasn’t doing so well and we needed re-direction to ensure it didn’t all go down the tubes.
That in itself is a strain point for the religion. God is supposed to see the beginning from the end, to know all things and to be perfection itself. The idea that the Christian God could be in error or make a mistake is simply not to be considered.
Yet God either doesn’t know it all or he can make mistakes – the bible is proof of it. No I am not talking about whether there are errors in the bible or if it contradicts itself, I mean even accepting the story as given, there is evidence things aren’t as we are told.
One such example (not of God being wrong etc. but that the story is stranger than we normally see) is that of the Nephilim. Note that Nephilim (or the original Hebrew word is a plural, which to me suggests it’s a name given to a tribe or race.
We might digress a little in the next post as the Nephilim are an interesting byway along the biblical autobahn. Many quite devout Christians have never registered them as being unusual and few of those who have, bother to look into the stories of them.
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