Matthew 12:40

For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

*Note that 1 Peter 3:19 states that Jesus was preaching to spirits in prison, during this time that He was in the heart of the Earth.

I have also always viewed the heavens as being integrated with the universe, as the Bible first directly states in Genesis 1:14, during the creation of the heavens.

Genesis 1:14-15

And God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night. And let them be for signs and for seasons, and for days and years, and let them be lights in the expanse of the heavens to give light upon the earth." And it was so.

            Obviously there are different ways of viewing reality, and Mr. Gates’ view of the heavens puts it somewhere outside of creation, which I do not understand on any level. Scripture actually documents the existence of three heavens, but again, that level of detail spans beyond the scope of this article.

The Creation.com website was also very rigid in its opinions about various technical details, such as the claim that intergalactic space travel is flat out impossible for any species to achieve. Such arguments sounded just like “If man were meant to fly, God would’ve given him wings.” Throughout history, people have made claims about things they didn’t understand, and argued emphatically over things that it turned out they were flat out wrong about. It is true that all things within the physical universe must follow the laws of physics, but that does not naturally conclude that we know everything there is to know, about the laws of physics. To state that intergalactic travel is impossible, is claiming an infallible and complete knowledge of physics, which I think is ludicrous.

In summation, I believe many Creationists are going to be scrambling for answers on the day of first contact. They will no longer be able to shut people down by saying their quandaries are purely hypothetical and would never happen. I don’t know how many times I was rebuked by Mr. Bates for asking him questions based on future scenarios of first contact, which he absolutely refused to acknowledge. He accused me of appealing to emotion, of being deceived, of arguing from silence, and said a number of other things, all of which were orchestrated to deny even the remotest possibility that there might really be extraterrestrials in the cosmos.

I told him that he’d be much better off sticking to the basics, such as “God created all life, not random chance,” because they have built an entire paradigm around so many connected dots, that if any one of the things they hold firm to are discovered to be false, their entire paradigm will be thrown into complete chaos. It will actually be easier to believe in the deceptions to come, if all the creationists have to offer Christians are a bunch of inflexible beliefs, some of which are not even required for scripture to be true, and some of which may also be proven false in the future. This is my primary concern as a writer and a believer. I research and write to explore possibilities, and prepare believers for worse case scenarios.

            Mr. Bates may think that I’m deceived into believing in the existence of extraterrestrials. He may also continue to believe this on the day of first contact, and even afterwards, following man’s invention of a hyperspace propulsion drive, which will propel him to distant worlds that have advanced life forms on them. In the aftermath of these events that I predict will come to pass, using prophecy as my credential, rather than a PhD, Mr. Bates says “No thanks,” to reading any of my research. But not everyone may agree with Mr. Bates. I therefore invite anyone reading this article to consider visiting my website, http://www.AliensAndTheAntichrist.com. Download and read my latest book, Aliens and the Antichrist. It’s a free download, along with the rest of my books. And who knows, if first contact does happen in the near future, and it is definitely proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that extraterrestrials exist, this research might come in handy for Christians wanting answers that fit with the reality they see unfolding before them.

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