Could Jesus have been an alien?

[TIGERJC]

I don't understand how anybody can believe in the bible which is equivalent to the Harry Potter book series (Magic tricks, Interesting tales and other shit that only happens in your dreams). Man is all about power, and back then religion was used to control peasants by the wealthy and nobles of that time. It's still used today for that exact reason

[sport_122]

I don't understand how anybody can believe in the bible which is equivalent to the Harry Potter book series (Magic tricks, Interesting tales and other shit that only happens in your dreams). Man is all about power, and back then religion was used to control peasants by the wealthy and nobles of that time.

but religious faiths existed within the groups of nomadic men. Even before governments and large societies. I would agree that in the last several hundreds of years, men have used faith to control people but no more or less than government, money, property, and brute force. All things can be turned upside down if you have the wrong person acting on things. So looking at a bigger picture I can agree that man is about power, but I don't believe that at the onset of our existence there was nothing. I believe that God and many other things predate human origins which means that we somehow have to find out how we fit into this grand picture.

The Bible should not be looked at as a HP book. Its not even the same type. The bible is written in a very different literary style, time and culture. If you read it like a HP book then of course it would be ridiculous. But there are many secular journals on the history of the Bible. Its just hard to find legitimate reads with all the garbage that has been posted by fanatics on both sides of the equation.