RE: What the bible says Hell is like
February 1, 2016 at 3:46 pm
(This post was last modified: February 1, 2016 at 3:47 pm by God of Mr. Hanky.)
(January 30, 2016 at 2:12 pm)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote:(January 30, 2016 at 1:59 pm)Constable Dorfl Wrote: The holy ghost is more of a christian thing, though. It is a post hoc entry into the christian pantheon.
The God character was a spirit in Genesis 1:2 (KJV) = "And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters."
The idea of ghosts go back to Genesis 25:8 (KJV) when the crazy old coot Abraham kicked the bucket: "Then Abraham gave up the ghost, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full of years; and was gathered to his people."
So, since the Sadducees didn't believe in spirits or ghosts did they really believe in the fairy tale or were they atheists? How could they believe in hell?
Why did I think that ideas go back not to the time in which a story is set, but to the time at which the story is first told? I'm only guessing without knowing the facts, but this may have been centuries or even millennia after the said time of Abraham.
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