Christians generally frown at this information.

Question: If God, the Angels, or even Jesus were to return to the earth tomorrow, would we recognize them? 

Christians will immediately say, "Yes, I would definitely know the almighty!" ...but would they really? Would God look just like the paintings by the great masters from a few hundred years ago? Would God and the Angels look "godlike?" ...or would they look like ordinary people? How do we know they will look anything like us at all? 

Most Christians believe god is a spirit, having no physical form, but how can we assume he doesn't have a physical body?  Just because we haven't unlocked the secret to immortality doesn't mean a being with unimaginable intellect didn't. We've only begun to scratch the surface of the human genome. We finally finished mapping it 10 years ago.  What will we be capable of after 1,000 years of genetic study? ...or 10,000 years? ...or 100,000 years?  Immortality?  Will we be capable of journeying to distant planets and creating new life there through genetic engineering? 

Probably a lot sooner than that. 


Conversely, those who insist God does not exist generally confine their definition of God (or what he isn't) to what is written in the Bible. Creator of the Universe. Omnipresent. Omnipotent. Six days? -Impossible!

The unbelievers say that Gods are myths created by primitive men to explain the unexplainable. That most of the stories in the Bible were based on older non-Christian myths. There are no dinosaurs or trilobites in the Bible. That all life on earth evolved from the first living cell a billion years ago.

And they ask, "Where is god now?"

A good argument if one takes the Bible word for word, but lets face it, those Old Testament stories were handed down verbally for thousands of years before man developed written language. 

We've all done that classroom experiment where a story is started at one end of the room and gets whispered from student to student ...the final result is always different from the original. Its embellished upon and details are lost. 

What of the information in the Bible? How much of it was distorted generation after generation before finally being committed to a written language? Then it was translated several times before it was available in English. 

Why is the Old Testament God such an angry god, and the New Testament God such a nice guy? What the hell is going on?

The following is NOT what I believe. It is simply an idea... an attempt to expand people's conceptions on both sides of the issue... a tool to show believers and non-believers alike that anything is possible. That BOTH Science and The Bible could indeed be giving us clues to the very same events. 

Events we still know absolutely nothing about.

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The Domestication of Man
A History

Our Creator will arrive during the next great ice age, when Earth's climate is better suited to their survival. Only then can they re-assume their role as masters of the human race.

ICE AGE

Homo Sapiens were initially created during an ice age 200,000 years ago when the masters spliced segments of their own DNA into indigenous hominids. This process was later described to man, and eventually appeared in the Old Testament: 'God created man in their own image from the clay of the Earth'..... "their own image" being God's own DNA, and "the clay of the earth" being an existing sub-species that had previously evolved naturally on the planet.  "Adam" was created through genetic level re-engineering of Homo Erectus.

Modern Man was created... but WHY?

Many religions speak of the powerful 10 foot tall "gods" or "angels" who created us. Being twice our size, the masters found it nearly as difficult to function in our gravity as we humans do when we grow to sizes over 8 feet tall. We were genetically engineered to be spry trained little monkeys that would provide for the masters, serve them, obey them, praise them, labor tirelessly for them, and be wholly dependent on them. We were their little worker ants.

A previous domestication project from 300,000 years ago, Neanderthal, had been an utter failure, but the Masters were pleased with the Homo Sapien slave race they had created. We were genetically perfect, and we served and praised the masters well.

We called our masters omnipotent -all powerful ....and in their knowledge of genetics and technology they are still vastly superior to us. They travel among the stars and are the galaxy's great manipulators of DNA... and where better to carry out these unsafe genetic experiments than on a distant planet that lies on the very edge of the galaxy, far away from their home world?

Despite the incredibly long life spans they engineered into themselves, their immune systems are not able to deal with the abundance of strange and harmful bacteria on Earth. Every planet has unique bacteria. It is an evolutionary thing based on the unique conditions of each planet. To live here as we do, breathing our atmosphere, would kill them, but in temperatures below 41° Fahrenheit (4°C) nearly all bacteria dies or becomes dormant. 

During the great ice ages when sea level is 150 meters lower than it is today and 70% of the earth is covered by 2 mile thick glaciers for nearly 90,000 years, the Sun has little effect on Earth's climate.  Ocean temperature becomes the dominate factor, resulting in stabilized temperatures around the globe.

An ice age provides the bacteria-free ecosystem the masters require to function openly on this planet. The Masters dwell at the newly exposed coastlines of the continental shelf near the equator, where the ocean is not frozen and the air temperature stays a near constant 34 degrees day and night for thousands of years. 

135,000 years ago the ice age was nearly over.  The coming interglacial period would quickly create perfect breeding conditions for all those harmful bacteria the Masters fear.  The Masters abandoned Earth well in advance of the great flood that marks the end of an ice age, leaving man to fend for himself.

INTERGLACIAL 

125,000 years ago another group of advanced beings arrived on Earth. They had no problems with Earth's bacteria or the warmer climate. They recognized The Master's work. They too wished to experiment on man, making him capable of more complex tasks. They obtained DNA from human bone marrow -a rib, to be exact- and they re-engineered us into into more intelligent beings. Man was given "fruit of the tree of knowledge." They made man self-aware. This creation would be called "Eve." 

But man's new self-awareness and intelligence caused him to become more aggressive and violent. 

ICE AGE

116,000 years ago, when the next Ice Age began, the Old Masters returned and found our new masters still here. They found man had been changed significantly. He had become a thinker, and most humans were no longer content to praise and serve the Old Masters as they once did. 

The Old Masters were neither pleased nor amused by the changes made to man, and punished the new masters for it, forcing them to leave Earth. These events are described in the Bible as the " fall from grace" and the war with Satan. 

The Old Masters did their best to try to control the spread of the new human sub-species, sometimes even destroying whole cities, but to no avail.  The damage was done. 

As their servants, the Old Masters originally engineered us to live for up to 1000 years, but this had to be changed when man became obstinate, violent and destructive. Man had become too dangerous and unpredictable to allow him to have such a long lifespan. It was simple to fix -as easy as flipping a switch. The Old Masters made a single alteration to man's genetic code so that growth hormone would cease production after the age of 22, causing a slow deterioration of the human body. We call this "old age." It is a genetic disorder that the Old Masters could reverse if they ever care to. Perhaps someday man will be able to flip that switch back on himself.

35,000 years ago the Old Masters exterminated the last remnants of their original failed domestication project, Neanderthal.

16,000 years ago, anticipating the approaching interglacial period, the old masters again prepared to leave Earth before bacteria levels got too high. They warned their faithful followers of the impending flood which would be caused by the melting polar glaciers and told them to move to higher ground.

They also warned the faithful not to fall victum to the new masters if they returned. There would be dire consequences for all who followed them.  They dubbed the most faithful of their human servants "the chosen ones," and promised them ultimate rewards for their unwavering loyalty, payable on death. They even promised to someday re-extend man's lifespan again, perhaps even giving him ever lasting life, but only for the most devout of followers.

INTERGLACIAL

2000 years ago Plato described the "sinking" of Atlantis into the ocean. He said it happened 9,000 years before his time... which is 11,000 years ago (and coincides with the beginning and warmest part of the current interglacial).  The world actually flooded.  This was the Great Flood.  The Bible rain was only coincidental. 

Nearly every trace of the Old Masters was again submerged beneath 150 meters of water, sand and silt. It is as if they never existed. Humanity fled to higher ground as the oceans swelled. All that remains now are vague recollections of the Old Masters that were handed down by man for hundreds of generations.... blurry descriptions of the Old Master's reign, the departure, and inevitable return.

11,000 years ago, at the beginning of the current interglacial, the new masters returned. They tweeked our genes again, this time creating a far more intelligent human being. They taught man to reason.

8,000 years ago man was ready to grasp written language, logic, weights and measures, and mathematics. The new masters taught man about the stars and the earth. They gave man new laws to live by.  The new masters were the builders of man's first civilizations. All of these civilizations, Sumerian (later Babylonian and Assyrian), Indus Valley (later Harappan), and Egyptian, are found near the equator where the old masters had abandoned man.  

The new masters also genetically engineered fruits and vegetables that man could grow, and taught man how to farm. Seeds carry genetic level information about the atmosphere, soil, and sunlight that the parent plant grew in. A plant thrives best in the same growing conditions as its parent. You can't bring plant life from another world and expect it to grow here. Alien plant life must be altered at a genetic level and adapted to Earth conditions. This was the era of the "Garden of Eden".

Those who still served the Old Masters recognized the danger of partaking in the advances provided by the new masters. They warned that the old masters would not be pleased when they return, and some of them still warn us of the danger to this day.

Soon, at the end of this interglacial when the next ice age begins, the Old Masters will return once more to reclaim mankind.

The new masters know the Old Masters will be very unhappy with man's recent upgrade, and will probably destroy the new masters for it -and most man's corrupt and vile civilization too. They fled Earth several hundred years ago hoping to escape the wrath. Those humans who refuse to give up the evil ways of the new masters, those who refuse serve the Old Masters, shall perish in a great war of reckoning. An Armageddon.

The legends of these ancient events were passed down verbally for thousands and thousands of years. Many of the facts were forgotten, mixed up, or simply beyond the comprehension of ancient man. The stories changed over time, as stories do. Different continents, and even different villages told their own versions of the story. Eventually the vague remnants of these stories were chipped into stone or written on scrolls but the truth was already lost. There was nothing factual left. Only many different legends, in many different lands, which became many different religions.

A common thread in many "religions" is:  God expects man to be obedient and to serve him faithfully when he returns.

ICE AGE

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AFTERWARD

Hey, look! I'm a prophet! HAHAHAHAHA! *cough cough choke*

So what do I believe?

To believe, one must have confidence in the truth, the existence, or the reliability of something, without absolute proof that one is right in doing so.

There are a lot of different religions out there. I don't believe we should be so quick to dismiss the ancient writings of any religious text as simple-minded nonsense. Maybe the stories came from somewhere. Perhaps they are based on common realities.

I do find it difficult to believe that any race, culture, or religious sect has a monopoly on who or what God is... or that their doctrine is favored over any other. Judaism, Christianity, and Islam all believe in the SAME God -the God of Abraham. Within those 3 religions alone are dozens and dozens of sects, each claiming their sect to be the exclusive rightful heirs to God's kingdom. They can't all be right, so they're probably all wrong.

And I don't believe any God would want us fighting over it. All life on earth is precious. Jesus taught us that, as did Mohammed and Moses, but no one seems to have paid much attention to that part.

People worship in the manner they are comfortable with, but in the absence of fact, people put too much faith in their personal belief. They need to remember that no religion is absolute, therefore, neither is any belief.

All religions, past and present, are based on the conceptions, interpretations and translations of ancient and/or modern men. All the details change over time. They say their prophets were inspired by the divine spirit... but if so, why are there so many different stories? Shouldn't the message be identical whether it comes from Allah or God? ...or from Vishnu, for that matter?

Some people conclude that this means religion is false -that there is no God- but I don't think it means that. All religions could still be right in their generalities... some ancient and obscure truths... but because of the scope of religious differences, all of them MUST be wrong about the specifics.

I am not saying all religion is wrong. There is nothing wrong with believing in and worshipping your God, but organized religion itself is God's own worst enemy. No one on Earth really knows what the hell is going on. 

I want to KNOW God exists. I want the REAL story. I don't want to have to take anyone's word for it. I don't give a crap about what some moneymaking evangelist spews to keep the money rolling in so he doesn't have to get a real job.

So all we can do is try to sort out the information as best we can from all sources, and not take it too seriously ...or for others of us, just ignore it all entirely.

I don't believe religion started in every isolated corner of the world just to explain the unexplainable. I believe its possible some common beginning inspired it everywhere. Many of the Bible and Torah's stories were themselves originally told in Sumer -the earth's first known civilization -stories like the great flood and stories of the Nephilim.

And these were probably already ancient stories by then too.

Monotheism isn't really a belief in just one god. It was just a re-naming of polytheism.  We just started calling those old gods and demi-gods angels and demons instead, and then focused all praise on their leader. Christianity was no different than having everyone convert to Zeus worship. 


This story was not meant to be taken seriously. I realize it would be considered blasphemy in any religion. If it has offended anyone, I apologize. I only hoped to get people to expand their preconceptions and have an open mind when it comes to the next person's reality, whether it is Religious, Atheist, or Agnostic. 

Someday we may all know the truth. My only worry is that when that day comes, because of our many preconceptions, none of us will recognize it.

- C. Fellows