
Rev. Michael J.S. Carter discusses the implications of extraterrestrial contact in biblical texts.
There is a question at the center of Western civilization that no institution wants to answer directly. It is not a new question. It is hiding in plain sight, in the oldest text most of us were handed as children. If God created the universe, and the universe is vast beyond any reckoning, then what exactly was happening in Genesis when the text says "let us make man in our image?" Not me. Not I. Us. That one word has haunted theology for centuries. And tonight's guest has spent decades arguing that the answer is not metaphor. It is not poetry. It is contact. Rev. Michael J.S. Carter is an ordained Interfaith Minister, a Master of Divinity from Union Theological Seminary, a Board Certified hospital chaplain, and a UFO experiencer who has been having contact encounters for approximately 35 years. He is also a Reiki Master, a counselor to other experiencers, a longtime consultant on The History Channel's Ancient Aliens, and the author of five books, the most foundational of which is Alien Scriptures: Extraterrestrials in the Holy Bible. That book argues, with theological rigor and personal testimony, that the Bible was never a document about the supernatural. It is a document about…
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