Imagine you lived among our forefathers in ancient civilizations. Imagine, also, that your assignment was to record at the time--Mesopotamian, Akkadian, Egyptian and Mayan--civilizations, what you had observed, for future generations. We, the readers of today are the future generations. What a daunting job that would be for you the writer. Today, will your writings make sense to those of our generations who come after you?
That was the dilemma of authors from ancient times. The aliens were wowing them with technologies they were not familiar with and could not understand. However, the prophets recorded the images they saw using symbolisms and iconographies they were familiar with. They sometimes described a scene of humanoid looking extraterrestrials coming down from the sky as angels coming down from heaven. Often, humanoids coming out of the aircraft were described as coming out of the belly or mouth of a dragon. When the "dragon" takes off, it was described as a fire eating or fire spitting creature.
We have often interpreted these recordings without applying logic and science. Most often we make mundane assumptions like: Jonah was swallowed by a fish. Take a look at submarines of various designs. What do they look like? What is the designs look-alike? Unless, one has lost all senses of logic and fact in exchange for the mundane, you cannot believe or assume it was a whale. Science makes it abundantly factual that to be housed inside a whale will cut off a man's access to oxygen and therefore death.
Some will only accept interpretations that are confirmed by their version of the Holy Books. They considered any use of reason in religious matters to be misleading and impermissible. Some believed man is too mortal to understand the ways of the aliens. In God Is Not Enough, a groundbreaking and thought-provoking book, the author attempts to deconstruct the confusion brought about by misinterpretation and outright disinformation.
