Hold the phone. I may just have to redirect the concentration of my own pursuit of biblical studies. I have just become aware of a subfield that had gone under my own “radar screen,” as it were. Josh McManaway has pointed out the book The Bible and Flying Saucers by Barry Downing. I looked this book up on Amazon and, my friends, I have some great news . . . yes, this book is available as “Search Inside.” That’s right, you can search and read the whole book on Amazon (three pages at a time, that is). Notice in the image how the “Search Inside” arrow is cleverly pointing to and covering up the UFO. Coincidence? I say there are no coincidences! Well, I had to take it upon myself to explore such an important resource and did happen upon a certain passage that has me dying to delve into this issue more fully. When talking about Mark’s account of Jesus’ baptism and how the Spirit “drove” Jesus into the wilderness, “which implies something more violent then [sic] simply ‘leading,’” Downing conjectures: “It certainly would not be out of line for a UFO of the type we have seen in the Old and the New Testaments to have come upon Jesus at his baptism and to have carried him bodily into the wilderness. This would certainly make an impression on anyone who saw it happen, and would help explain why the baptism is recorded in each of the four Gospels” (142).
It sure would make an impression on me, too. Now, I really need to know about the type of UFO that “we have seen in the Old and the New Testaments”! Thanks for the heads up, Josh!
