Life is a test
Not an academic test or a moral test
More like an experiment
Conducted by many aliens
They walk around in their little invisibility, dimension shifting suits and modify reality and our thoughts on a whim, like cute but spooky maintenance gnomes
It's fun to think about but scary, who really knows.
I love ancient aliens. I doubt the progenitor of all life ever is like, a little grey dude with big eyes, but I can see a little grey dude with big eyes inventing us through a combination of direct genetic interference, controlled breeding and letting natural evolution take its course, and them having an alien progenitor, and etc, until you get to that universal truth thing. We already play microgods to whole societies of animals in this way ourselves, look at beekeeping. It's not even implausible imo, at least compared to being the direct descendants of THE MOST POWERFUL BEING EVER. Like hell no, I find that doubtful, at least in the genetic sense. We might inherit consciousness from it, or we might be it putting on an act. But it's very hard for me to believe in such a close and hard set relationship between us and a sky authority that isn't at least on some level not what it seems.