Jesus admitted to being an alien

The argument

John 8: 23 states of Jesus: “And He was saying to them, ‘You are from below, I am from above; you are of this world, I am not of this world.’” Directly telling his disciples that he is not from this world appears to be a confession that he is not human, and indeed, not from this planet. In addition to what is believed to be the carving of a crucifix on Mars, there is also a statue of a lamb next to the crucifix. The addition of the statue of the lamb is considered further evidence that Jesus Christ was an alien and that any aliens that lived on Mars would believe in Christ. This is because it is believed that this cross is supposed to be the lamb of God. Both the lamb and the cross are considered evidence that not only was there once intelligent life on Mars, but that Jesus had dedicated himself to traveling across the cosmos and spreading his message to other intelligent life forms. A painting from 1710 also seems to suggest that aliens were present for the baptism of Christ. The painting, titled "Baptism of Christ", depicts John the Baptist baptizing Jesus on the River Jordan. However, the painting also shows something hovering over the pair and shining light down on the baptism. Conspiracy theorists argue that the object, which many believe to be the sun, that is shining light down on the baptism bears a strong resemblance to a UFO. The UFO shape is significant is a strong symbol of the idea that aliens have been visiting Earth for centuries.

Context

Conspiracy theorists have claimed that they have found the symbol of the crucifix on the surface of Mars. They believe that the discovery of this symbol helps prove that Christ was an extraterrestrial who sought to teach all intelligent forms of life across the cosmos about ethics and morality.

Premises

Counter-arguments

When Jesus states 'I am not from this world', he could mean that he is descended from the heavens, and therefore was not created on this world in the same way as all other human beings. This statement cannot be taken as a confession that he is an alien, since he does not mention the planets, space or extra-terrestrial life.

Rejecting the premises

[Rejecting P1] The verse does not say what the premise needs. In its own context the contrast is between above and below, understood in this Gospel as a distinction between the divine and the earthly rather than between planets, and the same Gospel applies comparable language to Jesus's followers, who are plainly human. A first-century Greek text also has no vocabulary for extraterrestrial life, so the reading requires a category its writer did not possess — the counter's point. [Rejecting P2] The Martian features are pareidolia, the ordinary tendency to see familiar shapes in random detail, which has produced the same claims for the "face" at Cydonia and for rocks resembling spoons, rats and faces in rover imagery. The formations are metre-scale rocks in low-resolution frames, none has survived closer imaging, and the argument moves from a resemblance straight to a religious interpretation of it with no step in between. [Rejecting P3] The painting is a depiction of the baptism in which light descends on the scene from above — a standard element of the iconography, present in many versions of the subject across several centuries and readable as the opened heavens the Gospel accounts describe. Treating an established pictorial convention as a photograph of a craft mistakes a visual vocabulary for a record of an event.