The Good Book - that wonderful book, the Bible - is a miracle. Not only is the book itself a miracle, but its stories are filled with miracles. And not only are its stories miraculous, but it is a miracle how some folks can (logically) reconcile some of its stories with other stories. For example: Adam & Eve are the first humans; their first children are Cain and Abel. Cain kills Abel, Cain is expelled from Eden, his home and the only land with humans. But he finds a populated world and a wife outside of Eden. Were these outta Eden folks really Adam and Eve's first (hidden) generation of children?
Genesis is perfectly clear about this: God was afraid that his creations might eat the fruit of two special trees in the garden, so he told them to stay away or "on the day that thou eatest thou wilt would surely die." Well, the serpent then told them the truth, "thou will have the knowledge of gods and thou wilt not surely die." They ate. Then the narrator says, remind us of God's threat, that they did NOT die. Then God expels Adam and Eve from Eden lest they eat of that other forbidden tree "and become like us". Not to mention, everyone knows the surest way to make a child do something is to forbid it. Right, they didn't know that then!
If the Bible is the work of God, what about those other works of God that were edited out in the Council of Nicaea?
It's interesting that most folks who believe in UFOs are people of deep faith. It is easy to explain this as they are people of faith. But they are also people who don't mind living with logical contradictions. If UFO's really exist, that is some really intelligent beings from another planet exist and have visited here, that seems to suggest that we humans are NOT God's crowning achievement! Or perhaps these E-T visitors are the children of some other smarter god than ours. If anyone can explain to me how they reconcile these two articles of faith, I'd appreciate it.
The first book of the four Gospels, Matthew, takes great pains to trace the lineage of Jesus back to King David, filling the prophecy of the olden days. But he traces David all the way through to Joseph, Jesus' human father. But wait a minute, Jesus had no human father, he was son to Mary and to God, Joseph at best was his adopted father. Jesus is not of the line of David, Joseph is and he shares no blood with Jesus.