Hello Alan,
I just came across your question as I am new to this forum. I hope I'm not too late with what I believe is an answer.
I too, have been bothered by the very question you have posted. I was, for many years a student of and later a teacher of the Bible. It never occurred to me to question any of this until I finally threw off the trappings of religion and donned the cloak of spirituality. How this came about is a long story and won't be told here. Suffice it to say I have found a credible answer to the question in the writings of Zecharia Sitchin who describes the many "gods" of Sumeria and Babylon and their connections to the Old Testament writings. Although Sitchin does not come right out and state that Yahweh was one of these "gods" he strongly infers that he was. This theory can be found in Sitchin's 7th book "Divine Encounters." Also, William Brimely wrote of this possibility in his book "The Gods of Eden".
Wishing you success in your quest for Truth,
Hal  

Hi Oliver,

You needn't doubt your own insights.  They are truth for you    at that time.  Just as any Truth can be explained through its many layers -- physical, mystical, whatever. 

Those layers are all valid and make the spiritual adventure very exciting!

Betson

Oh boy!

Several people here have information on the Reptilians, but I haven't explored that myself. For some reason the search capacity of this site (magnifying glass in upper right of thread) can't find the references, regardless of how I spell 'reptillian."    If you'll post your last paragraph as a new thread in the main Afterlife Forum, I expect you'll hear from them, more than under this thread's title.

I believe that you, your Guide, and Sitchin are right on!  Thank you for putting into words what I have sensed but never got very clear in my mind.

Betson

  Most want the whole enchilada handed to them quickly, and at a low cost.  Doesn't seem to work that way for us humans though. Drats, foiled again.

  My perception is that various E.T. groups have been involved with humanity during various periods.  Some are very spiritually mature and act as a guidance level.   Some are just curious and observing, some in a sense need our help while they can help us some, and some are more separative and arrogant in nature and are not a helpful force in a direct sense. 

  It seems at least a few of them have dabbled with our human genetics for various reasons.  One of the major ones is to help improve the circuitry of our physical vehicles.  Another is using our genetic material to improve theirs.  Different groups though, with different purposes.

  We were not created and enslaved by the 'Reptilians' so called.  Some of us do allow ourselves to be influenced to varying degrees, but such in the nature of the like attracts and begets like game/system of growth.  Much of our troubles though, are of our own internal cause and issues/imbalances.  But yes, there is a certain amount of influence that does go on. 

  However, the Consciousness who are the Co-Creator Gods and fully at one with Source Consciousness and PUL, would not allow full interference by these or any other groups unless we were ready to face and overcome same.  There is an interesting part in the book Cosmic Journeys where Courtney Brown was communicating with "Jesus" and the J dude says a bit authoritatively--something like that no E.T.-Human interaction that is not of the J dudes plan, will happen. 

  Re:  E.T. influence on genetics, well i have some personal experience and insight into this.  There is another self within my Disk or Greater self as i prefer, whose human genetics were altered by a spiritually mature E.T. group for a definite purpose.  This self was a sort of spiritual teacher and healer type, who was very psychically aware--much more so than even the average at that time and their average was a little more aware than currently. 

  "They" helped boost my other selfs physical circuitry, allowing for greater attunement to and demonstration of psychic and spiritual awareness within this dense physical. 

  Sometimes i wonder if my current body has been tinkered with, since my mom had a childhood illness and was told by doctors that she would not be able to have a child.  She had miscarriage after miscarriage, but it was around the time that she had a very vivid and powerful dream of being on board a craft with nonhumans that seemed familiar and loving and they were working on her body.  Around that time, she became successfully pregnant with a rather 'strange' child--her first born-me. 
   Perhaps related, an otherwise fairly accurate psychic told me that i was a Star child or seed, or something like that.  Perhaps one of the meanings of that term or concept is that i have a little more E.T. dna in me than the average?

  According to other sensitives (for example, both of Bruce's friends that he recommends on this site) and some inner guidance i've received, at some point in this life, it's probable that my psychic awareness and abilities will be fully and completely open, as to being fully telepathic, powerful healing, etc.

   I don't think this would have been as probable a development, without some tinkering on part of the E.T. group to my genetics.   I'm appreciative for their help. Needless to say i disagree with the seeming views that all E.T. influence is negative and limiting in nature.  There are many, many groups out there and they range from the most expanded in consciousness, to as limited as humans or more so. 

Btw,  I think this genetic alteration process is going on with some others as well, and has in the past, as well as currently.  Is it all positive in nature, probably not?  According to some outer sources i listen to some, there is also Reptilian-Human genetic programs and mixing going on, and it's doubtful that it's for our benefit. 

  It's interesting that my intuition tells me that many of those individuals whose human bodies have been altered and had more E.T. genetics inserted into same, well their consciousnesses actually directly came from another system--some are even first time humans.  In a sense, i'm a bit different with this since i've been involved with the Earth for long while and am not directly coming from another system (though, in a sense, perhaps some influence since i've had experiences in other systems). 

   

now after browsing reading more material, following hypothesis:

The 'God' of Old Testament is a vicious being, very manipulative and influential, and seemingly very evil and damaging, a nightmare of humankind;

Jesus taught how to escape the negative manipulations of the Old Testament 'God': through PUL - Pure Unconditional Love.

So Jesus is antagonist to the Old Testament's 'God'!

The bible is the history of the negative manipulations of humankind (OT), and the solution (NT), and whoever compiled the bible in this form, must have known a whole lot about this!

Perhaps this will help someone (maybe a little).

Christianity as we know it including the three largest groups (Catholics, Prots, and the Orthodox) is descended from the group that won the argument (war) over which Christians would dominate, with more than a little help from emperors Constantine and Theodosius I. This is the group scholars now refer to as 'proto-orthodox,' the same group that decided the canon of the Bible and made their theology mandatory throughout the Empire, with its backing, and the State was not nice about it.

Even later 'reformers' where not shy about consigning 'heretics' to the flames (after turning them over to the State, of course). Any Gnostic churches in your neighborhood? No? Now you know why. So when people speak of Christianity (whatever that is) please keep in mind the definition of that term is very much an open question.

As for Jehovah vs Jesus...I think the simplest answer is probably the correct one. They are not the same God (whatever that means), unless we can say, simply, that let's-not-stone-the-adulterer and love-your-enemies-even-as-they-murder-you Jesus would order the slaughter of innocents. Grab a box of tissue, read the book of Deuteronomy, think about the weapons of the day, then ask that 1990's cliche: What Would Jesus Do? Make sure it's a new box.

It's the proto-orthodox with their unexplainable trinitarian theology (a "mystery") who would have us believe they are the same God. In the absence of creative theological abstraction, it's obvious they aren't.

If you look at it from, say, a level of consciousness perspective, clearly the Israelites and their god (an anthropomorphic projection) are more that a bit lower on that scale than Jesus, their descendent.

Disclaimer: This is all predicated on accepting the Bible as a valid historical document, which I don't. This is why we have Guidance.

Now the conclusion: the Christian belief system, as we know it, is self-contradictory. By their fruits you shall know them.