(September 17, 2019 at 12:24 pm)Gae Bolga Wrote: There was a group of proto-christians who believed exactly this. Their beliefs were important to the formalization of literature even if they were executed and declared heretics by a mob of other heretics. The story was allegorically true of a non literally equivalent divine reality.
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Also, that there was one group of Christians who did take the resurrection metaphorically means little. It says no more than saying Protestants oppose the beliefs of Catholics.
If you're frightened of dying, and you're holding on, you'll see devils tearing your life away. But if you've made your peace, then the devils are really angels, freeing you from the Earth.
