ya, i wish i could, but idk; my guess is that they most likely had the same thoughts, and ran on a bell curve just like we do? The official religion doesnt mean that thats how the hoi polloi felt i guess? Plus the Bible records their forays into other gods; the priest having to destroy Nehushtan (the Snake on a Pole) comes to mind, chiefly.I’m been scared of death off and on, I guess, pretty much my whole life. When I was age 6, I asked my Dad if people dreamed when they were dead. He said no.I guess the concept of afterlife was foreign to them [ancient Hebrews], so you would have to kinda question what role religion would have in that context?
So yeah, I’m interested that the ancient Hebrews didn’t exactly worry about it all that much. Please tell me a little more if you can.
Which i meant to mention to Scooter, but we just never got that far. But the clear inference is that we are to destroy Nehushtan ourselves. Of course you have to identify him first, the caduceus, etc, and Jesus conflating Himself with the Snake on a Pole, sort of. Which i would say is enough evidence to suggest that they thought about it plenty?
Of course the associations of Promised Land to heaven are pretty…rife, i guess, and ive read some stuff about Moses not making it that is interesting; basically they suggested that that was a perennial struggle, and even the source of the conflicts between the Israelites and Yah that caused the diasporas.
Which its kind of hard to illustrate how believing in Jesus—or really more like worshipping Jesus—might cause a rift between us and Yah, huh? But it continues to today, as you maybe even witness between Scooter and i, or between the Bible and Christianity even; one v in The Rev is taken literally, while the many other vv suggesting otherwise are disregarded?
I can tell you what little i know, from experience, that being that idk anything you dont, and im pretty sure that the Bible authors would agree there, as the many vv that suggest that even more or less blantantly confess, 9So we aspire to please Him, whether we are here in this body or away from it—the culmination of the “absent from the body” passage, which can only be misapplied by a worshipper of Nehushtan, as the judgement seat of Christ will also be, the next v.
The cure would be to put on immortality right now, but the Bible doesnt really describe the process lol. At least not in that passage
and based on those books that i read forty years ago i suspect that their preoccupation with it was pretty common in Israel, too, and likely a reason for the rejection of it in Judaism? When you read the Exodus on a…less literal level, as crossing the sea of reeds and even taking many Egyptians with them, a picture of a struggle to get free of Egyptian hegemony, really mental at least as much as literal, starts to come into focus.I mean, the ancient Egyptians certainly worried about the afterlife a lot.
I would even say that its a bit strange that Egypt still exists? Nothing like their former glory, but still