Sept 2019 the U.S. Navy confirms existence of UFOs with hard evidence including visual sightings over a period of years -- and also tracking them on radar as well as engaging them in arial maneuver (dog fights) where they are not firing on anything just trying to follow/track it.
Does your view of Christianity view this as a threat to Christianity? a threat to evangelism in the context of a public being informed that UFO's are real and not merely swamp gas? Or will it increase the ability to evangelize the public in favor of Christianity in your view?
Many people who have been discussing this idea for a long time ... claim that publicly admitting to it would be a problem for Christianity.
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Firstly, there is no such thing as aliens written of in God's Word. There are fallen angels written about though (Genesis 6).
It does not create a problem for Christianity UNLESS... one believes the foolish ideas spread about UFOs.
I had friends in the USAF on flight status that admitted seeing UFOs that flew like no known aircraft, ninety degree immediate right angle turns, zips to multiple high mach speeds, maneuvers that known aircraft still cannot do. There's been plenty enough airline and military pilots that witnessed these things, so to me those who don't care to look into it just show they have fear, because people fear what they don't understand.
What Ezekiel saw in Ezekiel 1 was some kind of space craft. He said it was the color of amber, which in Hebrew is the word
chashmal, meaning highly polished bronze (Strong's no. 2830).
It's legs were like the legs like calf's feet, and it sparkled like burnished brass.
They all went straight forward, wither the spirit was to go, they went, and they turned not when they went. How's that they 'turned not when they went'? When we drive vehicles and turn, the front of the vehicle points in the direction we're turning. But what if our vehicle were round, circular? Someone seeing it turn wouldn't necessarily recognize where its front was. That's what this is pointing, a round, circular object.
Its appearance was as it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel. When they went, they went upon their four sides. That is Ezekiel trying to describe a wheel turned on its side, like a saucer. Usually a wheel is turned vertically, like on a car or truck, etc. But Ezekiel saw this object's works as a wheel within a wheel, turned horizontally. That may possibly point to its construction in layers, the wheels idea being circular rings of the construction. And their rings were full of eyes round about. Port windows??
I have no problem with it being a extra-terrestrial craft. Reason is, I believe Genesis 6 literally as written about the event during Noah's day when the "sons of God" (angels) saw the daughters of men and took wives of them, and produced a giant hybrid offspring which God told Israel to wipe out. The Smithsonian has been pretty thorough in hiding that evidence of the giant hybrids, but not quite good enough.
Our Lord Jesus warned us that the days just before His 2nd coming would be like the days of Noe (Noah), they were eating and drinking and giving and taking in marriage until the flood came and took them all away. Who were the main ones in Noah's day taking in marriage? It was the fallen angels. Who's to say they aren't getting ready to come back to earth again? Oh, our Lord Jesus did show us this...
Rev 12:7-12
7 And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels,
8 And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven.
9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
10 And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.
11 And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.
12 Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.
KJV