@ Shell B
I regret the late reply but I have problems with the editor. When I bring forward the text from the "Word" the knob "Preview Post" is not functioning and I cannot post.
I am now trying through typing my reply directly.
Well, your point was that....Their manner of burial is evidence that they believed in life after death. and so, "yes", I am arguing your point.
Then you wrote:
You asserted that no other cultures have similar burial practices to the Egyptians. The implication being that there is no way to tie the after life beliefs of the Egyptians to their burial practices by way of comparison to other cultures.
Is this what you were saying and what you believe? Simple answer, please. Your walls of text have not been enlightening in terms of the subject matter thusfar and I really just want to stay on track of the conversation.
I did not assert that no other cultures have similar burial practices to the Egyptians.
In answering your question “How about the other cultures whose burials indicate belief in an afterlife?” I said “There is no such culture, other than the Egyptian!” meaning that there is no other culture believing in afterlife and not that there is no other culture having similar burial practices.
Perhaps we can now start afresh without misunderstandings.
Care for the dead is not evidence of a belief in afterlife.
Killing of the first born and artificially deforming the skulls of infants were elements of their culture that we cannot understand. Belief in after life is an element of our culture which, if they were told about, they wouldn’t understand. Men care for their dead for the simple reason that when one’s a beloved one dies is not transformed automatically into dead meat. We know that the Egyptians, for the last 3.000 years of their history, believed in afterlife because they told us so. For the other cultures with similar burying practices we cannot know.
In addition to that, we now have the means to find out how the Egyptians arrived in so unreasonable ideas and thus we know that similar conditions should prevail if the same ideas were to be produced independently elsewhere.
You, and everyone else of course, say that the Egyptians believed in afterlife but do not know that for the Egyptians it was the dead who lived in the afterlife and not their souls.
Can you imagine dead people living after their deaths? No. You cannot! You’ll have to summon such concepts as spirits and souls.
Well, neither spirits nor souls were judged according to Egyptian theology!
As regards the walls of texts, the title of the thread is “Egyptian funerary texts” and it is about time that you (atheists) learn something about them.
I regret the late reply but I have problems with the editor. When I bring forward the text from the "Word" the knob "Preview Post" is not functioning and I cannot post.
I am now trying through typing my reply directly.
Well, your point was that....Their manner of burial is evidence that they believed in life after death. and so, "yes", I am arguing your point.
Then you wrote:
You asserted that no other cultures have similar burial practices to the Egyptians. The implication being that there is no way to tie the after life beliefs of the Egyptians to their burial practices by way of comparison to other cultures.
Is this what you were saying and what you believe? Simple answer, please. Your walls of text have not been enlightening in terms of the subject matter thusfar and I really just want to stay on track of the conversation.
I did not assert that no other cultures have similar burial practices to the Egyptians.
In answering your question “How about the other cultures whose burials indicate belief in an afterlife?” I said “There is no such culture, other than the Egyptian!” meaning that there is no other culture believing in afterlife and not that there is no other culture having similar burial practices.
Perhaps we can now start afresh without misunderstandings.
Care for the dead is not evidence of a belief in afterlife.
Killing of the first born and artificially deforming the skulls of infants were elements of their culture that we cannot understand. Belief in after life is an element of our culture which, if they were told about, they wouldn’t understand. Men care for their dead for the simple reason that when one’s a beloved one dies is not transformed automatically into dead meat. We know that the Egyptians, for the last 3.000 years of their history, believed in afterlife because they told us so. For the other cultures with similar burying practices we cannot know.
In addition to that, we now have the means to find out how the Egyptians arrived in so unreasonable ideas and thus we know that similar conditions should prevail if the same ideas were to be produced independently elsewhere.
You, and everyone else of course, say that the Egyptians believed in afterlife but do not know that for the Egyptians it was the dead who lived in the afterlife and not their souls.
Can you imagine dead people living after their deaths? No. You cannot! You’ll have to summon such concepts as spirits and souls.
Well, neither spirits nor souls were judged according to Egyptian theology!
As regards the walls of texts, the title of the thread is “Egyptian funerary texts” and it is about time that you (atheists) learn something about them.
