With all that is going on in the world regarding unidentified anomalous phenomenon (UAPs), at times, I am left wondering how my perspective about life including God, man, and my relationship to God conforms to the seeming reality around me. I grew up being taught about God and Jesus Christ and the Holy Ghost by good and faithful parents who shared their sincerely held faith beliefs. I have come to believe for myself that God is real, and He is our Father and that Jesus Christ is our Savior. How then, do I reconcile that with the unusual happenings that many people claim to experience such as UFO encounters, alien abduction experiences, and other “high strangeness.” I had believed in a relatively straightforward universe in which God created the heaven and earth, created us, and sent His Only Begotten Son, Jesus Christ, to save us. In my somewhat sterile cosmological perspective as a youth and child, I felt secure in my beliefs.
As I have aged and read and learned and engaged in philosophical conversation with friends and others, I have found my childhood paradigm didn’t seem to always fit the facts. I wondered what role these “alien abductions” (if real) played in God’s plan. Why don’t they look like us if we’re created in the image of God? Why would God allow these terrifying and life altering experiences to happen to his children? What part do non-human intelligence on earth or out in the universe play in God’s plan?
I don’t have answers to all of these questions, but I did take the advice of a writer who encouraged his audience to pray to God and ask to be taught. I did pray and ask to be taught. I won’t share all of what I think I learned because that is specific to me, and I am not a prophet or other spiritual leader. I am not in a position to hold out my perspective as doctrine. But, I will say that the process I feel the Lord has led me through, and the things I have been led to read and contemplate have filled in some gaps, modified my paradigm about life and the universe and have strengthened my faith.
What I believe, at this time, about God
I believe that there is a supreme being in the Universe who we refer to as God the Father. I believe He is the King of the Universe. He had an offspring, His Only Begotten son, who we know as Jesus Christ.
- I believe that God has a spiritual and corporeal body that is perfected and powerful.
- I believe that God is a being of great love and judgement and mercy.
- I believe that God is a powerful being and is creative.
- I believe that Jesus Christ is the Only Begotten Son of God.
- I believe that we are the same species as God – we are also His children.
Maintaining Faith in Jesus Christ
I believe that there will be challenges to my faith in the future. For other Christians, these challenges and paradigm shifting events will also challenge their faith in Jesus Christ. I believe the time has come for all Christians to strengthen there faith in Jesus Christ and develop a relationship with Him. How do we do that? Pray to the Father in the name of the Son for help to be taught by Christ, to come unto Christ, and to come to know Jesus the Christ. Read about Jesus Christ. Choose to believe in Him.
Granted that my faith in Christ is informed much by the Church in which I was raised. The leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints provided us with this document with simple and profound truths about Jesus Christ, the Son of God. I invite you to read it.
I do believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, the Savior and Redeemer of the world. I believe that He suffered and died for us. He was resurrected from the dead and He Lives. He is the creator of all things under the direction of his Father.
If you are interested in strengthening your faith in Christ, then please do the things that the scriptures encourage us to do, which is to believe on the Son of God, pray to the Father in His name, and obey God’s commandments. You’ll find that your relationship with God will develop and you can come to know the Father and the Son.
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John 17:3
3 And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.
