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The 5th Kind bills this film as Anunnaki already present in scripture. Paul Wallis’s spoken case is a fight over translation. Early Christian writers, he says, already doubted that the elohim episodes were about God. In the film they are visitors with unusual power, sometimes dragon-like, later covered by the name Yahweh so the collection looks seamless. Elohim are powerful ones, a plurality. Metanoia means going past the mind, not a slogan about regret. Jesus can cite the older writings as witness and still reject the law that later editors fused into one code. John’s word that becomes flesh and lives among people sits beside a picture in which beings are not cut off from their source. Wallis prefers source or consciousness to the word God, because God arrives with empire and obedience tests. Empire, he says, recast the faith as compliance, until a good believer and a good subject were hard to tell apart. That reframing is the film’s claim, not a settled reading.
Key points
- The film treats elohim stories as accounts of powerful beings, later covered by the name Yahweh.
- Wallis renders elohim as powerful ones and metanoia as a call to go beyond ordinary thinking.
- He says Jesus used the older writings as witness while rejecting the law code later editors joined to them.
- John’s word made flesh is set beside a picture of people who are not separate from their source.
- He prefers language of source or consciousness because the word God carries empire and exclusion.
- The closing claim is that imperial Christianity turned faith into obedience to the state.
Short quotes
translate the word metanoia which means beyond the mind
Paul Wallis, Paul Wallis on powerful ones in the Bible
He treats a familiar gospel word as an invitation to think past ordinary mental limits. Watch at 2:05
the word became flesh became human became material and dwelt among us
Paul Wallis, Paul Wallis on powerful ones in the Bible
John’s opening, in the film, is the source taking on a human life rather than staying remote. Watch at 15:15
jesus had distanced himself from those writings had repudiated them
Paul Wallis, Paul Wallis on powerful ones in the Bible
The film’s Jesus keeps the older books as witness but refuses the law later editors built on them. Watch at 19:56
empire reframed the whole of christianity as a religion of compliance
Paul Wallis, Paul Wallis on powerful ones in the Bible
His political claim is that empire turned the faith into a duty to obey. Watch at 31:02
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