(June 18, 2015 at 12:26 am)Rhythm Wrote: You're familiar with the term hellenism, as a witness, I assume? Would you like to begin there, a few hundred years before anything we would call "christian" arose as a separate and distinct religious identity from "jewish"? If you are familiar, just catch me up on what you know about hellenism and christianity so I don't end up talking down to you as though you were ignorant - and we can have some fun?
As a light intro in the interim, are you familiar with the jewish concept of the afterlife? That when you die, that's it, you're done, no resurrection, no eternal life? You can thank hellenization for the departure from there, to your ideas of a limited (albeit existent) heaven, and of a bodily resurrection. So...no, I'm not talking calendars and holidays, now am I?
Before you respond...I want you to keep in mind that there is no shame in this, I am not telling you that your beliefs about resurrection or heaven are wrong to hold...or that they're "unchristian"-. There's no need to defend the accuracy of those beliefs (and it would be pointless with me specifically, as you already know).
Sorry bro but that shits weak. You can say that our earthly resurrection is the same as an afterlife but its just not true. Christians for the most part believe that when you die you instantly go somewhere else. It makes way more logical sense that god created the earth to live on rather than a welcome mat to heaven. And its scriptural. I will do more research into hellenism because I don't know much about its effect on judaism. However you still haven't demonstrated how witnesses have joined the pagan amalgamation bandwagon. Bodily resurrections have a history in Judaism. You can't just mold everything that share a similar trait to hellenism and call it hellenism. And besides, I am referring to the Council of Nicaea type of shit where they pretty much said, fuck it, its all christian now.
