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Paul Wallis is an author who served in the Anglican church in Australia. In this talk he argues that the Bible keeps the memory of other beings who arrived on Earth, and that later editors painted over it with a single God. He says the name Yahweh was pasted over older stories of the Elohim, and that treating those stories as the acts of God has been used to excuse violence. He links the Bible to abduction and hybrid stories from Ghana and other places, to flood and creation accounts, and to the Nephilim. He also talks about his own family and the people who write to him, and says Jesus saw God as a father and kept clear of the Yahweh stories.
Key points
- Wallis says the Hebrew scriptures were reworked in the sixth century BCE to look like a story of one God, and that older stories of rival powerful beings still show through.
- He says the name Yahweh was pasted over earlier Elohim stories, and that reading them as the acts of God has been used to excuse violence.
- He cites abduction and hybrid stories from Ghana and many other places as one of the most widespread ancient stories.
- He reads the dark flooded planet at the start of Genesis as the memory of a devastation, followed by beings who came to restore it.
- He reads Genesis 6 and the Nephilim through the book of Enoch, as a second wave of visitors who had children with humans.
- He says the Ark and other objects in the Hebrew scriptures worked as technology, and that translators in 1611 had no words for it.
- He says Jesus spoke of God as a father, and that the early church dropped the Hebrew law in Acts 15.
Topics on this site
- Paul Wallis
- Elohim
- Yahweh (YHWH)
- Genesis 6
- The Nephilim
- Book of Enoch
- The Ark of the Covenant
- Flood stories
- Jesus and Yahweh: a deliberate misunderstanding
- Dragons
- Plato
Short quotes
the devil's the good guy in the story that cannot be right
Paul Wallis, A Populated Universe
He says the Eden story does not work if it is read as God against the devil. Watch at 2:00
if you worship a god who will do genocide you have to justify genocide
Paul Wallis, A Populated Universe
He links how a text is translated to what believers end up excusing. Watch at 5:40
that in which we all live and move and have our being and i think that's a wonderful definition of god
Paul Wallis, A Populated Universe
He likes the way Paul in Acts 17 describes God. Watch at 19:54
this is not a creation story this is the memory of a devastation of the planet and a rehabilitation of the planet
Paul Wallis, A Populated Universe
He says the dark, flooded planet before light in Genesis points to an older event. Watch at 30:09
what kind of father would give a child who's hungry and thirsty a stone
Paul Wallis, A Populated Universe
He says Jesus was pointing at the stories of Yahweh in the desert. Watch at 46:23
the ark was used as a communications device in a period after which the elohim have left the planet's surface
Paul Wallis, A Populated Universe
He gives his reading of the Ark as technology. Watch at 53:36
Video by Paul Wallis. Watch on YouTube.