There have been so many reports of UFO sightings lately that I have to comment. According to one of the newer government agencies responsible for managing unidentified flying objects, they have renamed them to include a broader selection of reports. They are called Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon or UAP. The media has taken the reports of UAPs more seriously than in the past and spent a lot of time and money investigating. Many sightings have been identified as balloons or something launched by humans, but there remains a significant number of reported sightings that remain a mystery. Whatever they are, they have certainly managed to occupy many of our most educated scientists and educators. The speculation about these reports covers a wide spectrum of ideas. Many believe and are adamant about insisting there is life in outer space, and the sightings are providing more evidence regarding that. Further, some of the recent discoveries in space have implied conditions are right on various planets for life to evolve. But no one that I know of has suggested the theory that I will present here. It’s seen as ridiculous by the modern secular world and is laughed at as unscientific and ignorant. I don’t care.
The Apostle Paul said that in the last “times some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons” (1 Timothy 4:1). Notice that the “departure” from the faith is by “devoting” themselves to something else. According to L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology, devoted followers can become like God through the process of Dianetics and will inherit their own planet in space. Scientology is one of the best-known religions of “outer space,” but it’s not the only one. Urantia is one of the newer of these false teachings that twist the scriptures. It was administered to its founder through a spirit mediator. Thus, we can readily connect it with Paul’s teaching. This New Age cult began in the 1930s but found an open audience in the late 60s, with the Aquarian movement focusing on mind control and drug experimentation while dabbling in the UFO movement. Its doctrine can be found in the “Urantia Book.” It’s a huge tome that contradicts the scriptures on many key doctrines of the faith. My copy of the book has 2097 pages. “987,000,000,000 years ago, associate force organizer and then acting inspector number 811,307 of the Orvonton series, traveling out from Uversa, reported to the Ancients of Days that space conditions were favorable for the initiation of materialization phenomena in a certain sector of the, then, easterly segment of Orvonton.” “875,000,000,000 years ago, the enormous Andronover nebula number 876,926 was duly initiated.” If this sounds like a science fiction movie, you may be right. It is sometimes referred to as a “UFO” religion like Scientology.
Like other cults that claim extra-Biblical revelations, it is claimed that the Urantia book compliments the Bible and that Christians should not be wary of it. But in reality, the Urantia book is in direct conflict with the Bible on many important doctrines, including the most important one, which is the issue of salvation through faith in Jesus Christ alone. The Jesus of Urantia is not the Jesus of the bible. According to its scenario, planet Earth, originally called Urantia, was created by Michael of Nebadon one trillion years ago. Michael eventually came to earth as the man Jesus. All cults have in common a denial of the deity of Christ and Christ’s work on the cross as being all-sufficient payment for the sins of those who believe.