David777
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I am not one that has angels whispering wisdom into my ears. Christian religious denominations vary in what they consider under salvation. The one obvious thing is escape from otherwise certain mortal death non-existence. Jesus in the New Testament made eternal life the primary goal. And that is something that significant numbers especially those non-religious, by time they reach an old age and degenerate physically, just accept as inevitable, and otherwise try not to think about.
Many denominations on the other hand tend to focus on hell and damnation, and forgiveness of sins. The whole hell narrative with eternal punishment has quite vague support in Bible scripture and in this era has been dismissed by many religious authorities as just dogma created in the Middle Ages for the sake of scaring people into being active church members.
It is like the threat of death non-existence wasn't enough to motivate many into joining churches. Another related dogma created that considerably conflicts with Old Testament scripture, was that God now loves everyone equally, hating what sinning people do but not the person, and that if they join their congregation they can be saved with a few simple words right up until the time they are on their death bed. Convenient belief for churches looking for new members. And popular with philosophers that dislike the notion that those that do evil much of their lives don't suffer consequences by being so versus those that live trying to avoid sin. Heck sin again, even repeatedly over and over and over for decades? No problemo just repent again!
But what about this eternal life? Any sane, logical modern person, especially those with a science background are going to be extremely skeptical that any organic Earth creatures once dead with tissues irreversibly decayed can be brought back to life. Yes, if one believes in magic, physical changes without active forces, anything one might imagine is possible as Middle Age philosophers demanded gods must be.
But as I have previously suggested on this board, saving our flesh and blood physical bodies is not what eternal life for intelligent entities is likely about, but rather saving the complex oscillating electromagnetic fields of our brain waves into reasonably similar impedance matching non-organic containers. Something an ancient race of UIEs billions to trillions of years old may have succeeded in and would arguably have considerable reason to develop. And I'll further suggest and could argue at length, that Jesus and the gift of eternal life he offered was their last effort to motivate we warmongering, immoral, selfish, Earth monkeys in that direction.
