This may be offending to many people, and I apologise, but the history and the
present may be able to explain what some see as inconsistencies in the
official (i.e. biblical) version.
Throughout history, BC and AD, there have been numerous accounts of
visitations by unearthly beings. For the Ancient Greeks, they were gods. For
Joan of Arc, it was an angel. For Peter Pan, it was a fairy. Fox Mulder says
they are aliens. Could these all be euphemisms for the same thing, dependant
upon the social context? As Chris de Burgh once sang, did “a spacemen come
travelling”?
Firstly, alien abductees often claim to have been sexually interfered with,
while abduction is sometimes used as a cover story for abuse. Secondly, bright
lights often accompany extraterrestial encounters as well being an indication
of the presence of angels/God in the Bible.
Then, there is the Star of Bethlehem - the supposed sign that predicted a King
is born. It has already been accepted that the Star was result of a
conjunction between Saturn and Jupiter, an rare astronomical phenomenon. Even
rarer is it for the conjunction to happen twice in one year. But in 5 BC, that
is what happened with a time gap of 8-10 months - ample time for gestation.
We also know that the Magi were not real kings but in fact
astrologers/astronomers.
Aliens could have posed as angels, based on the texts of the time, just as
white men appeared as gods to the Incas. The sole purpose was to colonise and
teach their ways to the people of Earth.
No-one knows what happened when Jesus was tempted in the wilderness by the
Devil upon being baptised. But we know that Clarke Kent went to the arctic to
discover his destiny and his powers and his duty to truth, Justice, and the
American Way. And just as the combination of the Earth's atmosphere and
Superman's genes gave him superhuman strength, the same could be true with
regards to Jesus' healing powers.
Also Superman was essentially good, but he could get angry. So could Jesus.
Jesus taught people about the word of God - possibly the existence of aliens -
which the Jews would probably have taken literally as they did not have access
to television.
Then, Jesus would have been crucified for blasphemy. He was revived by the
aliens. The polytheistic Romans could have thought the aliens were some form
of god. Perhaps the appearances and Ascension were occasions that Jesus took
to say farewell to his followers before joining his brethren in space, who
realised that the people of Earth were not ready for ‘outsiders’.
Since then, the aliens have created some form of Prime Directive (a la Star
Trek), and only carry out secret observations - although, as in Star Trek,
they cannot seem to carry it out effectively.
But no-one knows, not even the believers. And the non-believers are those who
believe firmly in Jesus Christ, who could be exactly what they do not believe
in.