george murphy wrote:
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> Orthodox Christianity is not common sense religion - & _en passant_,
> the central reason for that is not the resurrection (which plenty of
> religions have some approximation to) but a crucified God: The line "God
> himself lies dead" (_Gott selbst liegt tot_) in Rist's hymn is so offensive
> that most hymnals either leave out that verse or fudge the translation. As
> with pseudoscience, it is generally the heterodox who pursue common sense
> theology - or better, they are heterodox because they pursue common sense
> theology.
[Hammond]
Speaking of the Resurrection, my opponents will be glad to hear
that my discovered scientific proof of God sheds little if
any light on the question of Immortality.
The existence of God it turns out is easy to prove, but
"life after death" remains an insoluble mystery scientifically
speaking.
The question of whether Life After Death is a doctrinal metaphor
or a literal reality cannot be decided by science in the year
2001.
But what presents an enigma to me, is why there appears to be a
1,500 year historical lacuna in the doctrine between the Egyptian and
Christian empires?
The Egyptian religion lasted a staggering 2,000 years, and the
central document of that religion, The Egyptian Book of the Dead,
consists of nothing but an elaborate doctrine of Life After Death.
Then comes the Old Testament, heavily influenced by Akhaneton's
discovery of monotheism and Moses' birth into the Egyptian Royal
Court a generation later... and yet, Moses chose to support
Egyptian (royal) monotheism but apparently chose to entirely
ignore the 2,000 year Egyptian doctrine of Life After Death.
Next of course, we have the beginning of the Christian Era with
Calvary, and once again, another staggering 2,000 epoch of the
doctrine of Life After Death was officially reinstated.
If the Western World's two most powerful and long lived
empires, the Egyptian and the Christian, both succeeded with
a combined 4,000 year history of the doctrine of Life After Death,
why is it I wonder, that the World's leading theological theorists,
the Israelites, chose to abandon the doctrine, at least until
Jesus announced it?
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