Anthony Staus

GENESIS AND BABYLON

It is said that in the ancient world, the Hebrew book of Genesis contended with the Babylonian Enūma Eliš.

https://www.toddjana.com/genesis-1-in-its-ane-context/

REVISION

Today, pagan narratives are re-emerging through occult forms of scientific thought.

In the opening sequence of Prometheus (2012), an extraterrestrial being is sacrificed to create life. In the Babylonian Enūma Eliš, a god is sacrificed to create life (Tablet 6).

The Enūma Eliš is written on clay tablets in Sumero-Akkadian cuneiform script. If you look closely (0:34), there is a visual resemblance between Sumero-Akkadian cuneiform script and the script on the extraterrestrial’s bowl.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/En%C5%ABma_Eli%C5%A1#Tablet_6

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4a/Sumero-Akkadian_cuneiform_syllabary.jpg

This trend of recasting fallen angels/gods as conventional (extraterrestrial) entities, from other planets or dimensions, is not limited to Mesopotamian mythology. It involves mythologies from all around the world and has been gaining momentum for decades.

ASSESSMENT

According to the Bible, angels can leave their abodes and assume physical form. Sometimes, this was endorsed by God (see Genesis 18:20-22 followed by Genesis 19:1-3). At other times, this was not endorsed by God—it was a rebellious act—and resulted in some very serious transgressions (see Genesis 6:4 followed by Jude 1:6-7).

If ancient Near East Christians were alive today, they would probably have a different take on current events. They might interpret current events as having set the stage for a bogus origin story, should a corrupt angelic host decide to make such a claim.

Some ancient Christians might see Extraterrestrialism as a potential false religion. Others might perceive it as some kind of decoy with many different deceptive potentials.

Both groups of Christians would agree that the gods are a supernatural host with supernatural intelligence and composition—they are superior to humans. They would agree that without the Trinitarian God of the Bible, humans have no prevailing discernment in supernatural matters—humans cannot out-think the host of Ephesians 6:12 without divine intervention. They would attempt to contemplate both contemporary and future events using biblical content and reasoning—which would include biblical eschatology (see PART 2).