Heiser-The-Facade - Sparkling Eyes

"Vallee is a famous French ufologist—a Ph.D. in computer science by training—who did most of his writing during the Seven-ties," Deidre answered. "He's the guy thatSteven Spielberg used for a model for the French ufologist in the movie `CloseEncounters.'""No kidding," said Malcolm, "I loved that movie.""Vallee is one of the few, at least for his time, to postulate that the ET's may notbe true extraterrestrials but inter-dimensional beings pretty much like religious typeswould describe spiritual beings. I don't know why, but a lot of people into UFOsnowadays seem to have forgotten about that view; they just think on interplanetary termswithout giving the older view the same consideration. Dr. Mack is a psychiatrist atHarvard University; he's recently come to the same position in his latest book, Passportto the Cosmos. Some-how, these inter-dimensional beings can take genuine physicalform.""Harvard?" Mark wondered. "How would Harvard allow a guy like that on theirfaculty?""Dr. Mack's beliefs—and, I might add, his intellectual honesty—have causedquite a stir. He was tenured before he got into this, so he isn't going to lose his job over it.The university has retaliated in some ways, though. Dr. Mack was going to be mygraduate adviser at Harvard until the university saw to it that he would receive fewergraduate students to mentor. I was accepted at Harvard, but the university informed meI'd have to study under someone else. Dr. Mack gave me the scoop himself a bit later, andrecommended I go to a friendlier environment. I chose Edinburgh because theirpsychology department allowed students to study parapsychology.""Wait a minute," Neil objected, "isn't there some verse somewhere in the Biblethat says angels can't have sex? Or maybe that there's no sex in heaven?""I think I'll convert to Islam," quipped Malcolm."You're thinking of Matthew 22:30, which does apparently teach that there's nosex in heaven—that we'll be like `the angels of God in heaven.'""So the sons of God in Genesis 6 can't be angelic beings then?" Neil wondered."No, it doesn't mean that at all," answered Brian. "First of all, the verse doesn'tsay that angelic beings can 't have sex; it just says they don't.""That's pretty weak," said Melissa."I agree, but it's still an interpretive option. I prefer to handle this objection bypointing out that the verse says the angels in heaven don't have sexual relations. This ispretty obvious since elsewhere the New Testament refers to the angelic beings as`ministering spirits.' You must recall that the sons of God in Genesis 6 were not inheaven. We know from elsewhere in Genesis that when these heavenly beings come toearth they take on real, unmistakable, corporeal form. For instance, in Genesis 18 and 19the two angels accompanying the Lord when he visits Abraham were able to eat, and theyalso physically grabbed Lot and pulled him into the house when the men of Sodomthreatened him. In Genesis 32 Jacob wrestled with an angel. I would say angels don'tneed to eat in heaven either — as we won't, as far as the Bible tells us—but on earth theycould and did. There's no reason to suppose that the same isn't true for other physicalabilities, such as sex. I'd say the reference to the Shining One's `seed' opposing the `seed'of the woman in Genesis 3:15 actually requires reproductive ability.""Well said, Brian," Father Benedict commended him.190