I have always wondered why the God of the Old Testament was so ruthless and punishing of people. Why would he ask his leader Abraham to sacrifice his firstborn son? If God loves everyone and created everyone, why would he tell one group of his children to go into another land, kill all of his children in that place, slaughter all of their animals, and take it over for themselves? These directives caused hard feelings with the group that was already in the Promised Land, and the Arabs and the Israelis still have conflicts with each other.
The work of Zechariah Sitchin presents a revolutionary viewpoint of the origin of homo sapiens, showing that the God of the Old Testament was really an ET with superpowers who wanted his Earthlings to obey him. It clears up some of the inconsistencies in God's character. A scholar who translated the tablets discovered in ancient Sumeria, the cradle of civilization, his work makes a radical shift in perspective. I just finished reading Sitchin’s The Lost Book of Enki: Memoirs and Prophecies of an Extraterrestrial God. It is written from the perspective of an ET named Enki who gene spliced us as a cross between the gorillas indigenous to planet Earth and his race, the Anunnaki from the planet Nibiru (orbiting our sun in a retrograde, eliptical pattern with a sun cycle of 3,600 years). Reading partly like a mystery and partly like a soap opera, I couldn't put the book down! The whole idea seems so preposterous at first, that these ETs came to Earth hundreds of thousands of years ago in search of gold to send back to their home planet to pulverize to repair the damage in their atmosphere.
The next step in the idea does not seem so outrageous, that the Anunnaki workers who lived huge life spans got tired of mining gold after about a hundred thousand years at the same old job and went on strike. Threatened with extinction of their race on Niburu if they did not find a way to repair the tear in their atmosphere, Enki took a drastic measure. He spliced genes together to create a life form that would be a willing worker for the Anunnaki in return for food. Point of view is everything in history, and Enki's point of view was that he made the gorillas more than they had been before.
The problem with the Earthlings he created was that they could not talk. One day Enki saw two young women Earthlings bathing and, dazzled and aroused by their beauty, impregnated them both. With the extra input of Anunnaki DNA, the offspring of these two Earthlings were then able to talk, and homo sapiens had been created!
I noticed that the Anunnaki leaders vied for power, arguing and fighting over who had claim of succession to the throne and the power of decision-making, just as earthly rulers do. What was noticeably lacking with the Anunnaki was appeal to their creator for help. Only once in the whole book did the wife of an Anunnaki King suggest to appeal to "The Creator of All" for help with their atmospheric crisis. Help did come a bit later, in such an unusual form--a dethroned and disgraced leader escaping in a space ship, blasting his way through the asteroid belt with nuclear weapons, landing on earth, and discovering gold here.
One other factor of spiritual intervention in the destiny of humans came in the enigmatic figure of Galzu, but I will leave the reader to discover that exciting story if you are interested in hearing what the ancient Sumerian tablets say about the how and why of our development on the planet Earth!
