Originally Posted by Eric5273

Well, I was going another direction with this...

There are cave drawings from many thousands of years ago that show the reason that man probably thought God or "the gods" came from up in the sky.

Did you ever see the movie "The Gods Must Be Crazy"??

During WWII, there were some Pacific Islands discovered that apparently had been isolated from the rest of the world up until that point. The native people living on these islands were living thousands of years behind the rest of the world. Our military actually set up bases on a few of these Islands, and due to the planes taking off and landing, the natives actually thought that they were gods....

Native American religions also assume the gods originate from up in the sky.

These examples show that the idea of gods coming from up in the sky does not originate with the Bible or with any single book.

If you read the Quran and specifically about Mohammed's experiences, he does indeed claim to have been taken up into the "heavens" and claims to have circled the earth while up in the heavens. While anyone who is not Muslim would probably dismiss this episode as pure fiction, there is another explanation for Mohammed's experiences.....

Keep thinking.....I'm sure you will realize what it is....