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Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2018 15:12:32 +0100, GMT 14:12
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Why Today’s 'Advanced' Culture Still Talks about UFOs
Leah Hickman | Contributor to ChristianHeadlines.com |
Friday, January 5, 2018
For half a decade, spanning from 2007 to 2012, the federal
government funded a program that investigated UFO sightings,
according to this New York Times article. Some involved in the
program say that it still continues today, just without the
government funding. In an op-ed piece for the Times, Ross
Douthat suggests that this program speaks to a general human
curiosity in extra-terrestrial beings.
Douthat writes, “[O]ur alien encounters, whether real or
imaginary, are the same kind of thing as the fairy encounters
of the human past.” Just like the curiosity of past generations
in the existence of fairies and other magical beings, he
suggests, this curiosity in UFOs shows our human desire to know
beings beyond the physical, earthly realm.
Although many dismiss the UFO sightings using strictly
down-to-earth explanations, Douthat predicts that the curiosity
in UFOs could become a “new religion.” According to Douthat,
even “the educated class of Victorian England went wild for
fairies and spirits in the heyday of scientistic optimism.”
There’s a possibility that our culture could also turn to these
tales of “flying saucers” as a sort of replacement for
Christianity.
Douthat contrasts this with the “Christian idea” of the true
and biblical God. This God, when he enters creation, Douthat
writes, “does so honestly, straightforwardly, in a vulnerable
and fully human form — and exposes himself publicly, whether in
a crowded stable or on an execution hill.” Unlike the fairy
stories of old and the UFO tales of today, the Christian God
enters human view with clarity of purpose, making this God a
much more reliable foundation for human faith. Meanwhile,
Douthat comments, the glamour of UFOs and of faerie “is an
understandable object of curiosity but a dangerous object for
any kind of faith.”
As Douthat’s comments remind us, trusting in the Christian God
doesn’t mean that we throw understanding out of the window.
Rather, God shares his wisdom with us through the Bible, his
Word. Unlike the fairies of old and the UFOs of today, we can
actually know our “extra-terrestrial” visitor, Jesus Christ,
through the Scriptures. And these very Scriptures consist of
eyewitness accounts from people who staked their lives on the
things they saw Jesus do. Praise God that we, as Douthat says,
trust a God “who does not play tricks.”
Leah Hickman is a 2017 graduate of Hillsdale College’s English
program. She has written pieces for multiple Hillsdale College
campus publications as well as for BreakPoint.org,
ChristianAnswers.net/Spotlight, and the Discover Laura Blog.
Read more by Leah at aworldofgrasspeople.blogspot.com.
Kommentar:
HVIS det går hen og bliver en ny religion, er der selvfølgelig
noget galt, set udfra en *kristen* synsvinkel.
Men det behøver altså ikke være tilfældet mht. de "UFO"-fund,
vi har gjort (inside the Bible)!
Om det kan fratage den opmærksomhed, som Jesus skulle ha' haft?
Ja!
Og derfor er det heller ikke noget, jeg prædiker, når jeg er
til Gudstjeneste, fordi her er det Jesus, der skal være i
centrum og al det, Han har gjort for os!
Men ...
For mig at se er det også *idiotisk* at afvise PÅ FORHÅND, at
der eventuelt kan være noget om snakken mht., at der har været
et besøg ude fra Rummet i Oldtiden (og måske også i nutiden),
blot fordi man *frygter* (ubegrundet?), at det kan gå hen og
blive en slags erstatning for kristendommen.
Nå, men ...
Mere om dette senere (hvor grænsen går mht. engledyrkelse og
falske evangelier und so weiter), når citat fra Helge Pahus'
bog ydmyghed er online. Se indtil da ...
https://sites.google.com/site/kalllitteratur/home/0/ydmyghed
Ydmyghed
af Helge Pahus
ISBN 9788792090423
Mediacellen, 1996
http://hosianna.dk/product/ydmyghed-af-helge-pahus-453/
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