(October 15, 2021 at 9:09 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Interestingly enough , "jesus" didn't. That was an effect of romanization, as I think we've discussed. At any rate..and since you have a pronounced "many people believe" habit...many people can be wrong.
There is no afterlife. No heaven, no hell. These are thematic elements of greek tragedy that got rolled into christian belief in the scuffle for political power in rome.
And a quick google search reveals this:
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/20...-hell-soul
The Jews of the OT believed that the dead were dead -- but later they introduced the idea of a bodily resurrection. This was one conflict between the Sadducees (no resurrection) and the Pharisees (a bodily resurrection).
However, some Pharisees of Jesus' time had already started to believe in Greek ideas of the soul.
