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If so, who created the aliens if it wasn't God? This reminds me of Richard Dawkins's argument in that movie Expelled. "God doesn't exist because aliens created us." Well then who created the aliens?" Ah-derp-a-derpblerp.
I thought the same thing when I watched that movie. The atheists failed to prove abiogenesis on earth, so they just kicked the can to another planet.
Definitely worth digging into. I have found Mauro compelling, and Clif High has gone deep into ancient Sumerian texts that have lot of parallels in Bible, and myself having grown up familiar with Indian mythology have also seen the same things in our texts as well.
Also, even cursory reading of Old and New Testament is enough to tell you that the God referred in both are very different in nature - hinting that there were atleast two different races of these alien beings, one being more benign than the other.
Also note that if indeed some alien entities created us and have been guiding us, it does not make the concept of God any less meaningful, especially if those entities were infinitely benign beings, and were created by the Universal God in any case.
The best way to get your friend into Bible is to acknowledge that his belief that Gods were aliens can be plausible, but tell him that Bible gives a very intricate account of how this interaction happened and definitely worth understanding it, if not as religious text, as historical text.
I'd recommend the Book of Enoch first