As humans we are both intelligent and ridiculously stupid.
We have a good side, as we (in my belief) are reflections (albeit super imperfect) of the creator of the universe.
But... we are also corrupted and everything that is reflection of the nature of God we have taken and corrupted and reshaped into our own... well... whatever you would call it.
So I have been watching this series on ancient astronauts and it kind of cracks me up because there are also religious explanations for the same stuff. Of course I see the irony here, scientifically minded/naturalist minded people will see both the religious and speculative people's views in the same light: garbage.
Even so, one of the things that people overlook in the Bible is the topic of heavenly beings. I am not just talking about Angels. Angels are heavenly beings who play a specific role. There are many other created beings in Heaven other than "angels". God is the creator of them all.
It is clearly noted in the Bible that these beings have been interacting with man for eons, and are even equated to the "gods" of the ancient civilizations (prince[s] of Babylon for example). Part of the reason the angels were "spanked" by the way. It is pretty clear that God was offering a line of redemption to rebellious heavenly beings by "managing" human civilizations but... they obviously became the objects of worship instead of guiding lights. And of course that wouldn't fly. But that is something you can research for yourselves. God Himself reserved the right to manage the "Israelite" people. Hence stems the entire latter parts of the Bible (outside of Genesis and Exodus). But I am rambling.
The particular episode I was watching was in regards to the predecessors to the Inca, and I absolutely love the various bits thrown in about "a great flood" and relationships to the ancient Sumerians, etc. I mean, you KNOW Abram (later Abraham) hailed from Babylon and the Sumerian peoples, yes?
Aww. I will stop now, I am rambling a bit.
It's just that man would rather accept aliens from another world in the same universe over a God who CREATED the universe, and other realms and beings. A God who pursued humanity to the point where he became a human... and not an original human, but a corrupted version of humanity, in order to sacrifice His life to pay for the corruption we helped spread. By the way, the serpent in the Garden of Eden? Why did Adam and Eve just talk to some crazy serpent there? Because they were familiar with it. It wasn't NEW to them. Many heavenly beings have different forms, or can take different forms. The Serpent? The Serpent was "common" to their experience... But that is another story .
