Heiser-The-Facade - Sparkling Eyes

"Well . . . sure.""Then his evasion of the questions is telling, in my mind. Why avoid thequestions or appear bored with them when they interest us? ""Maybe he isn't Catholic," Malcolm jested."You'll get no argument there," the priest scoffed. "Let's go back to the Roswellthing," Deidre requested. "Certainly.""One of the problems I have with the application of the beney elohim to thiswhole area are the UFOs themselves. Why would these beings need spaceships?""Andrew and I have actually thought about that question as well," Brian informedher. "We've postulated that perhaps they don't need such craft and don't use them.""Say what?" Deidre disputed. "That's where this whole alien thing began.""I agree—if you believe they are truly from elsewhere in space.""But?""But what if they're just technologically capable of such things for the solepurpose of passing them on to mankind, while not needing such vehicles themselves? Thetechnology would be real and we know it is yet the product of the minds of theWatchers, who have no need of it. Tell me, Deidre—and you'd know better than anyonehere—is there any evidence, other than hypnotic regressions or hearsay, for such craftbeing truly from another world?""What about the demonstration? ""What about the question? I think we would all admit that while the ETexplanation seems a very good fit for what we saw, humans could have come up withgravity modification. So then, is there any actual hard evidence, other than what we'vebeen told, that this technology is in fact otherworldly? ""I guess not," she granted after a few moments."And even more importantly, " Father Benedict followed, "is there any evidencethat would require me to abandon my notion that divine beings could create such craftand give that knowledge to man-kind as opposed to beings from space?""No, but that's a little like asking us to prove a negative," Malcolm criticized."I'll accept that," Father Benedict said, "but I have the ancient texts on my side.""Which are open to interpretation.""True enough.""Why would the Watchers do that just hand out the secrets of the universe?"Malcolm wondered."For the same reason humans make so much of the question of extraterrestrial lifenow—to divert our attention from the true Deity to the pseudo-deities, from theuncreated, self-existent, omnipotent, and omniscient One to the created, contingent, andlimited beings whose powers are derived and inferior. They want to be viewed as beinglike the Most High. The reason has always been the same.""What about the virus—it's certifiably extraterrestrial," challenged Mark."And could therefore have been brought from space by us—there's no need todepend on the Group's phony panspermia explanation.""But how would it get into the cattle?" he protested. "Ingestion is out of thequestion—unless you think I'm part of some great conspiracy.""No, I don't think that. Again, if you're willing to believe that aliens deliberatelycreated the virus and infected our cattle, why can't you believe that humans did it—or the281