(March 3, 2011 at 5:26 pm)jase21 Wrote: So to prevent that they came up with the criterion that will decide whether a human will go to heaven or hell after their death and suicides are straight tickets to hell; to maintain the balance of nature.
Also you must consider that these people were of top caliber. They were the top notch scientists (hard to call them a scientist, but anyway just to emphasize the point). History tells us about Algebra, Yunani etc. So they have good knowledge on various aspects that they put down into that book in a cryptic manner. And kept those knowledge a secret from the general public; to tell them that those where sacred knowledge that they received from "God".
So what do you think?
Thanks.
Reward and punishment after death were not unique to the Hebrews./Jews or Christians. Ancient Greeks, Romans, The Egyptians, all had their form of heaven and underworld(hell/Hades/Sheol).
In the bible, hell is only mentioned in the Old Testaments of the 2 King James versions. It doesn't appear in the OT of any other bibles. "Hell" is basically a modern invention by Christianity, in terms of burning for all eternity. The Romans were masters of fear.
The god Yahweh/Jehovah/Christian god/Allah was one of many worshipped by the Canaanites/Hebrews who only became monotheist after they believed that Yahweh rescued them from Egypt.
Your statement about the Canaanites/Hebrews/Jews being top-notch scientists is a little far-fetched! They were basically illiterate donkey nomads, with just a few scribes able to read and write. It was these scribes who wrote all the nonsense of the Old testament/Jewish bible. Nothing scientific there, just myths, legends and fairy tales written to make the Hebrews/Jews feel more important than they really were. A book of inspiration, no less.
The scientists came from Egypt, Greece and Rome and they were quickly silenced, along with medical researchers, when Constantine designed the Roman version of Christianity. Christianity abolished smart thinking, burned untold numbers of scientific and philosophic works, teaching that no one needed knowledge of anything except Christianity in order to survive in this World.
Christianity didn't need to "keep things secret". The bible was written in Latin and even many bishops and priests couldn't even read Latin! It was illegal and punishable by death for anyone except clergy to even look inside the bible, even though it was written in Latin.
A good site for research is http://www.jesusneverexisted.com lots of interesting info.
There are many intelligent Christians, no doubt, but an "intellectual Christian", is surely an oxymoron.
