The soon-to-be widespread public acceptance of UFOs will hit the unprepared church like a ton of bricks.
The recent version of this deception has been around for about eighty years, and the church has laughed at and ignored it. But the church has ignored attacks like this before and has been whacked upside the head as a result. In the 1600s and 1700s—the Enlightenment era—many elite philosophers outside mainstream popular culture said the Bible and the great Christian philosophers like Augustine and Anselm were out of date. Modern philosophy claimed it had proved that Christianity’s stories, written down by the backwoods fishermen who traveled with Jesus, were nothing more than outdated old myths and lacked modern logic. The church ignored the challenge until it was too late. Based on my many years in academia, I know of no major university philosophy department today that takes Christian theology seriously.
In the 1800s, scientists such as biologist Charles Darwin and geologist Charles Lyell said they had shown that science now had a better and more scientific explanation for the existence of the cosmos and nature than a Creator God. In the mid-1800s, most common people had hardly heard of figures like Darwin and Lyell, but today the Christian explanation for creation is a joke at almost every major university. Even when a partial version of creation by a supreme being called “intelligent design” is proposed, it is enough to get Christians who are credentialed scientists kicked off university staffs (watch the movie Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed).
In the 1800s, many men became theologians in Germany because it was an easy way to get a degree and a cushy government church-state job in a parish or university—and they didn’t have to believe what the Bible taught. So they set out to write detailed academic books arguing that the Bible was a myth, that Moses didn’t really write the Pentateuch, and that the historical Jesus wasn’t the person the Gospels said He was. Not many pastors had heard about those elitist, German theologians, and no church took it seriously then, but by the 1960s most major Protestant seminaries rejected the historical basis for Christianity. They rejected the gospel of salvation from sin and simply taught a social gospel of good-works Christianity. And so, by 2022, George Barna at the Cultural Research Center at Arizona Christian University found that only 37 percent of Christian pastors held a biblical worldview and only 13 percent of youth pastors held a biblical worldview. Most today teach a syncretic combination of all sorts of beliefs. Of course, in the meantime, cults such as Mormonism, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and New Age religions rushed in to fill the spiritual gap. As G. K. Chesterton, whose writings significantly influenced C. S. Lewis, is believed to have said “When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.”
And ever since these attacks, the church has been behind the eight ball and playing catch-up. But the public consensus has already formed, and like Europe, which used to be the flame of the Reformation, we in the United States are living increasingly in a post-Christian country. And post-Christian countries tend to censor Christians and persecute them. What is the church ignoring today? UFOs and space aliens. And we’ve made this mistake before.
For the last eighty years, since the alleged UFO crash in Roswell, New Mexico, there have been more credible sightings of UFOs and reports of contact with space aliens. To confuse the issue more, the government and Ufologists are now calling them UAPs (unidentified aerial phenomenon, or unidentified anomalous phenomenon) because there is uncertainty about whether they are physical objects or just appear to be physical objects—or whether they go in the air and the water. For simplicity’s sake, I will refer to them as UFOs, as that is what most people still call them.
This outer space invasion has been a great source for Hollywood: E.T., Men in Black, The X Files, Marvel Comics heroes. These stories have injected the UFO and space alien phenomenon into the mainstream. “But they’re only movies. No one takes them seriously, right?” Maybe you don’t, but have you asked your kids? In the last twenty years, the onslaught of documentary TV series like Ancient Aliens has led to a groundswell of followers who believe that these space aliens aren’t fictional but are our “space brothers” and are here to guide us to the next stage of human evolution. These aliens supposedly have superior technology, evidenced by the craft they fly, which can travel exponentially faster than our best jets. They must have better answers to all the basic questions of life, such as, Who are we? How did we get here? What is our purpose here?
For many, those dusty old Bible myths are being tossed aside and replaced by this new knowledge from an advanced intergalactic race. There are even UFO cults forming. At the end of this book, we will look at how this movement could eventually pave the way for the end-times deceptions of the Antichrist and the final and total rejection of biblical Christianity. This book, along with its companion documentary UFOs and GOD, intends to answer these attacks, to keep the faithful from being deceived, and to provide far better biblical answers to this mysterious phenomenon. Hopefully, it will also provide a thought provoking alternative to the drumbeat of documentaries and TV shows that may confuse a sincere inquirer about Christianity. These space aliens even say they are the ones who seeded human life here on earth in the first place, not a Creator God. Unbelievable!