Easter essay on God and Jesus

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On this 2025 Easter, I’ll post as a draft, this short essay on God and Jesus. No entities I am aware of have been whispering into my mind so the below is speculation. So please don’t change your own religious beliefs because of the below but consider such with a grain of salt. I’m not asking to argue these ideas with members but rather offering unique ways for humans to think.

I am a Christian and by choice, choose to believe in Jesus and God’s gift of possible eternal life even though I don’t feel certain nor ever expect to. In fact, I will attend Easter mass tomorrow morning as I have not abandoned the church Jesus started and its many well-meaning people merely because of disagreements with dogma and or acts of others.
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I’ve speculated for years that what people refer to as the Christian god is not as portrayed by Christian church dogmas. Most importantly, the dogma that god has Omniscient, Omnipresent, Omnipotent (OOO) powers that are described as abilities to do anything imaginable, even if physically magic like. There are two primary reasons I rejected that dogma.

First, there is no scripture in the Bible beyond vague descriptions of his power as “almighty” or oral history of seeming acts that to ancients would seem to be beyond what is physically possible. There is an enormous amount of supposed inspired dogma beneficial to churches out of OOO that says much as to why they were motivated to and developed those beliefs. Earlier civilizations were dominantly polytheistic with their different gods having different powers. This book has explored the subject:

https://www.academia.edu/70452505/The_Problem_of_God_in_Modern_Thought

The notion of an infinitely perfect being was a core presupposition of the Scholastic and late medieval period. How did God become a problem in modern thought? Clayton here offers a one-volume history of philosophical theology from the dawn of the modern period through most of German Idealism. In particular, he shows how early modern approaches from Descartes to Leibnitz were dominated by a medieval metaphysics of perfection that was unable to survive the growth of modern science and the challenges raised by Kant…

OOO philosophies grew out of idealistic neoplatism by philosophers in the Middle Ages. From a reddit thread:

...It's not actually a thing in Christian Scripture. According to an ancient Christian history professor I once heard, it started with Plato. My understanding is that he argued that instead of the diverse gods with diverse powers, diverse knowledge, and diverse locations, he suggested there might be just one god who would have all powers (omnipotent), all knowledge (omniscient) and belong to all places (omnipresent). This is somewhat different from how those terms are commonly understood today.

Plato's thought was imported into Christian theology primarily through Augustine of Hippo around 400CE. He was a neoplatonist before he became a Christian, and after his conversion did a lot to integrate the two disparate belief systems. His ideas remain profoundly influential to this day. There are Christian theologians who challenge the omnimax conception of God as being un-Biblical...


The second primary reason as a person well grounded in logic, is that actions without forces in a matter/energy universe don’t happen as that is illogical nonsense magic. So no rabbits can ever materialize out of magician hats. Thus those OOO narratives created by philosophers during the Middle Ages should be abandoned just as aspects of various embellished nonsense stories in Genesis ought be changed.

For instance, the Flood was not global but rather local within Mesopotamia with the Ark carrying domesticated and other useful and nearby wild animals and NOT every creature on Earth. And NO Adam and Eve were not the first homo sapiens. The old Testament itself even indirectly states that about Genesis 4:14.

Of course, to science primitives, Jesus walking on water of the Sea of Galilee would seem miraculous. To advanced science and technology beings he might simply have been walking atop a level submarine deck a few inches deep in sea water. Others might whine that Jesus or God wouldn’t trick we humans so. But consider how God and Jesus never describe in Bible scripture how their miraculous acts are performed and rather leave such to the imagination of science primitive men. So when Jesus performed supposed miracles, he was not explaining how.

Christians have done much good in the world but in balance, history is also full of horrible things men did to other humans for the sake of supposed religious reasons. If God was affecting, correcting things in the church Jesus began, surely those things would be queued up far higher than explaining how he cured some blind person. But there has been no inspirations guiding against such evils even to any well meaning arguably moral popes and religious leaders. If God and his race of angels tried to explain such things, there would be endless additional technical questions to follow. So, it is quite probable, they let humans think whatever and further never corrected what they incorrectly recorded.

Others might point to Jesus’s miraculous healings. Well to a race of ancient billions of years old beings (UIEs) that are likely mostly non-organic to be immortal, and propagated DNA life in this universe, they would have the ability using biological microbots to do amazing things. Scriptural miracles due to the nature of oral tradition, may not be exactly what happened for the sake of entertaining audiences. Note, I also reject biblical inerrancy and rather embrace oral tradition that is never exact. What was described as instantaneous may have taken time after being repeated over many generations. A long list of such scriptural miracle stories may likewise be explained away.

My suspicion is that planet Earth is an evolving DNA organic preserve partially engineered and at least occasionally affected by UIEs. That UIEs visited Earth because after civilizations developed 8,000+ years ago, they felt a need to correct the constant murderous, warmongering atrocities evildoers perpetrated on their neighbors. Anyone reading about the now uncovered and deciphered clay tablet writings of Ubaid, Sumerian, and Akadian earliest civilization cultures will quickly see why they may have felt a need to interfere. There are several current YouTube videos on such research.

So what of Jesus? Well Adam and Eve were obviously not ordinary homo sapiens because they lived for hundreds of years, as long as 969 years. That suggests these UIEs were trying to improve on ordinary humans and were able to extend their lives greatly via genetic improvements. And the so-called “Tree of Life” may have further been a source of supplemental nutrients impossible to grow within creature bodies to keep them alive far longer if they had only passed God’s moral tests. Just like we humans with our pets, such beings would feel pain when those they loved died and ended.

At some time, the leader of the race of angels I expect is what Christianity calls God, arrived to evaluate what his angels had created but that didn’t meet some critical moral threshold so genetic improvements were abandoned. That could be the source of the simplistic eating forbidden fruit story. Instead, they realized removing all man’s competitive and creative drives were impractical because our creature natures were too physically ingrained into our beings. And that flawed moral nature was then called “Original Sin”.

For centuries scholars argued how could a virgin Mary have given birth to Jesus? That is easily explained today. Anyone that has been given an anesthestic like propofol for a surgical operation will note it is not at all like sleep. Instead, regardless of how long, minutes, to hours, to days will seem like a blank instant as one’s aware electromagnetic brain waves fully disappear. UIEs would be capable of instantly putting any humans into such a state and upon awakening would not be aware time had passed.

Thus, the angel Gabriel could have put Mary into such a state and then UIEs would be able to surgically implant specially preserved DNA sperm developed from Adam’s lineage. In the same way, this person over my lifetime, especially since I’ve spent much time out in remote wilderness areas, could have had most anything placed into or done to my own body or had complete brain scans performed.

For two millennia, UIEs tried to change humans but as scripture relates, human immorality only got worse, especially warmongering and killing. At some point UIEs may have decided it was enough so Jesus was born to complete that final try after which they would leave the future to Peter and his church.

It seems UIEs, despite the resurrection and the clearly stated gift of eternal life for believers, didn’t expect that would be successful. When The Way did have momentum, Jesus got Paul with his Greek and Jewish education and writing skills involved as the 12 apostles were primitive illiterates. That killed two birds with one stone as Saul also was the prime persecutor. After the 3 uninspired synoptic gospels were spread first via oral tradition and eventually written down, John’s arguably inspired gospel was created to fill in important information Jesus and UIEs felt was critical.

As for the physical possibility of eternal life, for the sake of keeping this essay short, will leave those details for another day. I’ve already posted on earlier threads that our animal creature minds are electromagnetic phenomenon within organic neural system containers. Create a special water electrolyte container with similar impedance characteristics and minds might be duplicated. What scripture calls "spirit" is probably electromagnetic brain wave phenomenon.
 

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On this 2025 Easter, I’ll post as a draft, this short essay on God and Jesus. No entities I am aware of have been whispering into my mind so the below is speculation. So please don’t change your own religious beliefs because of the below but consider such with a grain of salt. I’m not asking to argue these ideas with members but rather offering unique ways for humans to think.

I am a Christian and by choice, choose to believe in Jesus and God’s gift of possible eternal life even though I don’t feel certain nor ever expect to. In fact, I will attend Easter mass tomorrow morning as I have not abandoned the church Jesus started and its many well-meaning people merely because of disagreements with dogma and or acts of others.
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I’ve speculated for years that what people refer to as the Christian god is not as portrayed by Christian church dogmas. Most importantly, the dogma that god has Omniscient, Omnipresent, Omnipotent (OOO) powers that are described as abilities to do anything imaginable, even if physically magic like. There are two primary reasons I rejected that dogma.

First, there is no scripture in the Bible beyond vague descriptions of his power as “almighty” or oral history of seeming acts that to ancients would seem to be beyond what is physically possible. There is an enormous amount of supposed inspired dogma beneficial to churches out of OOO that says much as to why they were motivated to and developed those beliefs. Earlier civilizations were dominantly polytheistic with their different gods having different powers. This book has explored the subject:

https://www.academia.edu/70452505/The_Problem_of_God_in_Modern_Thought

The notion of an infinitely perfect being was a core presupposition of the Scholastic and late medieval period. How did God become a problem in modern thought? Clayton here offers a one-volume history of philosophical theology from the dawn of the modern period through most of German Idealism. In particular, he shows how early modern approaches from Descartes to Leibnitz were dominated by a medieval metaphysics of perfection that was unable to survive the growth of modern science and the challenges raised by Kant…

OOO philosophies grew out of idealistic neoplatism by philosophers in the Middle Ages. From a reddit thread:

...It's not actually a thing in Christian Scripture. According to an ancient Christian history professor I once heard, it started with Plato. My understanding is that he argued that instead of the diverse gods with diverse powers, diverse knowledge, and diverse locations, he suggested there might be just one god who would have all powers (omnipotent), all knowledge (omniscient) and belong to all places (omnipresent). This is somewhat different from how those terms are commonly understood today.

Plato's thought was imported into Christian theology primarily through Augustine of Hippo around 400CE. He was a neoplatonist before he became a Christian, and after his conversion did a lot to integrate the two disparate belief systems. His ideas remain profoundly influential to this day. There are Christian theologians who challenge the omnimax conception of God as being un-Biblical...


The second primary reason as a person well grounded in logic, is that actions without forces in a matter/energy universe don’t happen as that is illogical nonsense magic. So no rabbits can ever materialize out of magician hats. Thus those OOO narratives created by philosophers during the Middle Ages should be abandoned just as aspects of various embellished nonsense stories in Genesis ought be changed.

For instance, the Flood was not global but rather local within Mesopotamia with the Ark carrying domesticated and other useful and nearby wild animals and NOT every creature on Earth. And NO Adam and Eve were not the first homo sapiens. The old Testament itself even indirectly states that about Genesis 4:14.

Of course, to science primitives, Jesus walking on water of the Sea of Galilee would seem miraculous. To advanced science and technology beings he might simply have been walking atop a level submarine deck a few inches deep in sea water. Others might whine that Jesus or God wouldn’t trick we humans so. But consider how God and Jesus never describe in Bible scripture how their miraculous acts are performed and rather leave such to the imagination of science primitive men. So when Jesus performed supposed miracles, he was not explaining how.

Christians have done much good in the world but in balance, history is also full of horrible things men did to other humans for the sake of supposed religious reasons. If God was affecting, correcting things in the church Jesus began, surely those things would be queued up far higher than explaining how he cured some blind person. But there has been no inspirations guiding against such evils even to any well meaning arguably moral popes and religious leaders. If God and his race of angels tried to explain such things, there would be endless additional technical questions to follow. So, it is quite probable, they let humans think whatever and further never corrected what they incorrectly recorded.

Others might point to Jesus’s miraculous healings. Well to a race of ancient billions of years old beings (UIEs) that are likely mostly non-organic to be immortal, and propagated DNA life in this universe, they would have the ability using biological microbots to do amazing things. Scriptural miracles due to the nature of oral tradition, may not be exactly what happened for the sake of entertaining audiences. Note, I also reject biblical inerrancy and rather embrace oral tradition that is never exact. What was described as instantaneous may have taken time after being repeated over many generations. A long list of such scriptural miracle stories may likewise be explained away.

My suspicion is that planet Earth is an evolving DNA organic preserve partially engineered and at least occasionally affected by UIEs. That UIEs visited Earth because after civilizations developed 8,000+ years ago, they felt a need to correct the constant murderous, warmongering atrocities evildoers perpetrated on their neighbors. Anyone reading about the now uncovered and deciphered clay tablet writings of Ubaid, Sumerian, and Akadian earliest civilization cultures will quickly see why they may have felt a need to interfere. There are several current YouTube videos on such research.

So what of Jesus? Well Adam and Eve were obviously not ordinary homo sapiens because they lived for hundreds of years, as long as 969 years. That suggests these UIEs were trying to improve on ordinary humans and were able to extend their lives greatly via genetic improvements. And the so-called “Tree of Life” may have further been a source of supplemental nutrients impossible to grow within creature bodies to keep them alive far longer if they had only passed God’s moral tests. Just like we humans with our pets, such beings would feel pain when those they loved died and ended.

At some time, the leader of the race of angels I expect is what Christianity calls God, arrived to evaluate what his angels had created but that didn’t meet some critical moral threshold so genetic improvements were abandoned. That could be the source of the simplistic eating forbidden fruit story. Instead, they realized removing all man’s competitive and creative drives were impractical because our creature natures were too physically ingrained into our beings. And that flawed moral nature was then called “Original Sin”.

For centuries scholars argued how could a virgin Mary have given birth to Jesus? That is easily explained today. Anyone that has been given an anesthestic like propofol for a surgical operation will note it is not at all like sleep. Instead, regardless of how long, minutes, to hours, to days will seem like a blank instant as one’s aware electromagnetic brain waves fully disappear. UIEs would be capable of instantly putting any humans into such a state and upon awakening would not be aware time had passed.

Thus, the angel Gabriel could have put Mary into such a state and then UIEs would be able to surgically implant specially preserved DNA sperm developed from Adam’s lineage. In the same way, this person over my lifetime, especially since I’ve spent much time out in remote wilderness areas, could have had most anything placed into or done to my own body or had complete brain scans performed.

For two millennia, UIEs tried to change humans but as scripture relates, human immorality only got worse, especially warmongering and killing. At some point UIEs may have decided it was enough so Jesus was born to complete that final try after which they would leave the future to Peter and his church.

It seems UIEs, despite the resurrection and the clearly stated gift of eternal life for believers, didn’t expect that would be successful. When The Way did have momentum, Jesus got Paul with his Greek and Jewish education and writing skills involved as the 12 apostles were primitive illiterates. That killed two birds with one stone as Saul also was the prime persecutor. After the 3 uninspired synoptic gospels were spread first via oral tradition and eventually written down, John’s arguably inspired gospel was created to fill in important information Jesus and UIEs felt was critical.

As for the physical possibility of eternal life, for the sake of keeping this essay short, will leave those details for another day. I’ve already posted on earlier threads that our animal creature minds are electromagnetic phenomenon within organic neural system containers. Create a special water electrolyte container with similar impedance characteristics and minds might be duplicated. What scripture calls "spirit" is probably electromagnetic brain wave phenomenon.
I might need to read that again with an open bible either as support or defense? - but thank you ; as ever elucide! if not a confusing pleasure to read!
 

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I remember a religion teacher saying that while the movies always show Martin Luther running up and nailing his 95 Theses to the chapel door and everyone gathering around immediately and marveling, discussing and/or condemning.

In real life, the church door was the community bulletin board. People were always nailing up notices...horse for sale, new bier garten opening, maid wanted.

It was probably a couple of days before anyone had the time to read all 95 theses and decide whether to agree, disagree or head for the new bier garten to discuss them.
 
OK, more difficult speculation now that it is Easter Day out of a long document I work with.

Jesus in the tomb:
But what about Jesus’s body after leaving the cross? His body’s flesh had died. His brain tissues had changed to a state of decay with each passing minute. Without being kept at near freezing cold temperatures, all his body would immediately start decaying that is normally irreversible. Joseph of Arimathia of course prepared and wrapped the body then put it in the tomb and rolled the stone in place. From the time Jesus died to the time Arimathia rolled the stone ceiling Jesus’s tomb had to be a long time during which Jesus’s organic tissues would have severely irreversibly decayed.

Even the time between when Jesus passed and he was removed from the cross area would have been a far too long a time. Is there some kind of advanced science process we might imagine that could repair his body? In order for his body to not have decayed, his body would have had to have been in some special state before he was taken into custody by the Jewish mob as after that he was always in view of those who held him. One needs to understand a similar situation existed with Lazarus being brought back from the dead so whatever was done is a serious science mystery.

God did not perform magic on Jesus in tomb:
Now some are going to only want to believe God just went poof like a magician and Jesus was brought back to life. However, as I wrote above, magic is illogical and I believe God does things with real processes even though they may be advanced science immensely beyond our own or that we can ever hope to attain. Were the 3 days actually necessary because of the process God used? Maybe the Holy Spirit working like micro-bots rebuilt his body from whatever remains even after he died on the cross. If God just could go...poof! that would not have been necessary.

It also might be that before Jesus was taken into custody that he was given something that would make his body less likely to decay, if such is even possible. In any case, scripture makes certain an organic body must die before one is reborn in spirit. But that might not be the case in Jesus's special circumstance.

John 3:3-8, NKJV. "Jesus answered and said to him, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.” Nicodemus said to Him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born?” Jesus answered, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’ The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but cannot tell where it comes from and where it goes. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit.”


purpose of 3 days in the tomb:
The first thing the angels would have done after they opened the tomb would have been to bring him up to their spacecraft to hook Jesus's dead body up to a machine like was probably also done as a trial run with Lazarus, that connected into his veins and arteries and flushed his old decaying blood and fluids out and exchanged them with good fluids and the cells. Consider the delay between when Jesus was sealed away in the tomb and when he rose. That reads like some time absolutely needed to pass for an angel regeneration process to occur.

No, it took two or three days because a process of recovery was occurring just like with Lazarus. God did not like magic go poof and Jesus suddenly was able to rise after the tomb’s entrance stone was rolled into place. It may have been that Lazarus was to some extent a technical warm up by angels on bringing a dead body back to life before Jesus was led to his execution.

Jesus was possibly quite worried it might not work and immensely relieved when he awoke resurrected. :love: That noted, I do not expect when the rest of we believers are reborn as spirit that the same process is used but rather our electromagnetic brain waves arise from identical impedance containers. That is why our flesh truly dies, gone forever, while Jesus and Lazarus were somewhat different.
 
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depends which account you read and want to believe - the biblical one or any of a few others including the one above. I can write one of those [ no will not oblige - this is a sacred topic and I will not make jest of it] Unless David 777 can come up with specific references to existing tomes then it is mere conjecture as I have said before and just sounds like a fairy story and insults the name of Christ
 
I remember a religion teacher saying that while the movies always show Martin Luther running up and nailing his 95 Theses to the chapel door and everyone gathering around immediately and marveling, discussing and/or condemning.

In real life, the church door was the community bulletin board. People were always nailing up notices...horse for sale, new bier garten opening, maid wanted.

It was probably a couple of days before anyone had the time to read all 95 theses and decide whether to agree, disagree or head for the new bier garten to discuss them.
I was young and a member of the Lutheran Church in 1953 when a big film about Martin Luther was released. My church actually dug deep into the Church treasury to buy that film. Keep in mind this was not like buying a DVD on Ebay for $7. These were big reels of 16mm film that had to be shown with a movie projector, and it wasn't some old copy that had been lying around unsold for three years. We bought it shortly after the film was released.

I remember clearly about how he nailed his manifesto to the church door. To the church door for Christ's Sake! Boy was he hot under the collar. I can't remember what else was in the film, even though I saw it at least three times in our church (they needed to get their money's worth from the investment). And at that, I probably remember that one part because our pastor made such a big deal out of it.
 
@David777 I'm sorry folks want to poke fun... :rolleyes:

I believe that God is all knowing, all seeing, all powerful. After all, He spoke the earth and all it holds into existence. (in my belief) I don't look to science or rationality to explain what can not be explained. God is God, and we won't understand anything about God things until we get to heaven. It isn't magic He preformed, we agree on that. :) It is miracles. ❤️
 
there is always a bit of a clash when discussions about religion meet up with more "scientific held facts and views" - we are really talking about two different vastly different occurrences in life - life we have explored scientifically and life we believe in a more emotional and what we may call religious view. Even all the religions cannot agree with each other
 
OK, more difficult speculation now that it is Easter Day out of a long document I work with.

Jesus in the tomb:
But what about Jesus’s body after leaving the cross? His body’s flesh had died. His brain tissues had changed to a state of decay with each passing minute. Without being kept at near freezing cold temperatures, all his body would immediately start decaying that is normally irreversible. Joseph of Arimathia of course prepared and wrapped the body then put it in the tomb and rolled the stone in place. From the time Jesus died to the time Arimathia rolled the stone ceiling Jesus’s tomb had to be a long time during which Jesus’s organic tissues would have severely irreversibly decayed.

Even the time between when Jesus passed and he was removed from the cross area would have been a far too long a time. Is there some kind of advanced science process we might imagine that could repair his body? In order for his body to not have decayed, his body would have had to have been in some special state before he was taken into custody by the Jewish mob as after that he was always in view of those who held him. One needs to understand a similar situation existed with Lazarus being brought back from the dead so whatever was done is a serious science mystery.

God did not perform magic on Jesus in tomb:
Now some are going to only want to believe God just went poof like a magician and Jesus was brought back to life. However, as I wrote above, magic is illogical and I believe God does things with real processes even though they may be advanced science immensely beyond our own or that we can ever hope to attain. Were the 3 days actually necessary because of the process God used? Maybe the Holy Spirit working like micro-bots rebuilt his body from whatever remains even after he died on the cross. If God just could go...poof! that would not have been necessary.

It also might be that before Jesus was taken into custody that he was given something that would make his body less likely to decay, if such is even possible. In any case, scripture makes certain an organic body must die before one is reborn in spirit. But that might not be the case in Jesus's special circumstance.

John 3:3-8, NKJV. "Jesus answered and said to him, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.” Nicodemus said to Him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born?” Jesus answered, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’ The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but cannot tell where it comes from and where it goes. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit.”


purpose of 3 days in the tomb:
The first thing the angels would have done after they opened the tomb would have been to bring him up to their spacecraft to hook Jesus's dead body up to a machine like was probably also done as a trial run with Lazarus, that connected into his veins and arteries and flushed his old decaying blood and fluids out and exchanged them with good fluids and the cells. Consider the delay between when Jesus was sealed away in the tomb and when he rose. That reads like some time absolutely needed to pass for an angel regeneration process to occur.

No, it took two or three days because a process of recovery was occurring just like with Lazarus. God did not like magic go poof and Jesus suddenly was able to rise after the tomb’s entrance stone was rolled into place. It may have been that Lazarus was to some extent a technical warm up by angels on bringing a dead body back to life before Jesus was led to his execution.

Jesus was possibly quite worried it might not work and immensely relieved when he awoke resurrected. :love: That noted, I do not expect when the rest of we believers are reborn as spirit that the same process is used but rather our electromagnetic brain waves arise from identical impedance containers. That is why our flesh truly dies, gone forever, while Jesus and Lazarus were somewhat different.
Sheesh, talk about wasting time and energy in complicating God's straight forward messages told by His Word in the Bible......
 
@David777 I'm sorry folks want to poke fun... :rolleyes:

I believe that God is all knowing, all seeing, all powerful. After all, He spoke the earth and all it holds into existence. (in my belief) I don't look to science or rationality to explain what can not be explained. God is God, and we won't understand anything about God things until we get to heaven. It isn't magic He preformed, we agree on that. :) It is miracles. ❤️
Right on! ❤️
 
After reading the posts, they suggested to me that the OP may have aspirations to modify some of the scriptures. However, I am not a holder of a PhD, nor do I consider myself a genius in academia terms. Therefore, I may have misinterpreted some, if not many of these writings. If that is so, I apologize.
 
Thanks folks for responding, even those that strongly reject my speculative hypotheses, and feel people, especially believers not make such heretical ideas public. Those reactions have value on this web board because that reflects dominant public attitudes that have existed over the last couple centuries as science and technology has overtaken former philosophical dogma. We in this community are here in part to read how a range of others think about issues.

Christian denominations are in crises with significant numbers of former members, especially from younger generations, rejecting what they once followed, stopping attending church for a list of varied reasons, and adopting loose semi religious personal beliefs or becoming agnostic or atheists. The more conservative denominations like rigid Young Earth inerrant Bible believers have been especially impacted. Those narratives were not testable until science and technology arose. Thus resulting in the growing crises today.

What my links point to is why OOO ideas, the key factor, arose from latter Greek neoplatonist beliefs of philosophers that have weak scriptural basis and then resulted in much supposedly inspired creative dogma from religious scholars that religious authorities wanted to believe were being inspired by the Holy Spirit. There is NT gospel scripture that supports the belief the Holy Spirit was supposed to be active forever after Jesus left helping we humans, so one can understand why well-meaning authorities expected their most educated, holy living scholars would be the ones God through the Holy Spirit is working with.

Of course, Jewish religious leaders in the Old Testament felt the same way for millennia before Jesus days. But when Jesus arose, they suddenly found Jesus significantly criticizing and condemning much dogma of what had been accumulated after Moses era. That tends to show God/angels stopped directly influencing most OT Levite religious leaders probably for moral reasons as a result of evil warmongering, wealth oriented, adulterers, power oriented, political powers gaining control. The OT books themselves chronicle much about generations of Israelite leaders who did evil and practiced religion more like their neighbors they were supposed to instead be moral examples for. So one might expect the same abandonment could have happened after the church was Romanized.

The tendency has been that once former believers change, that they then reject most of what they followed. My input is that need not be the case. And this person is in a unique position to suggest other ways of interpretation. We need not throw the baby out with the bath water. As science educated, old Earth apologist, and evangelist Dr. Hugh Ross wrote in his book "Creation and Time":

When science appears to be in conflict with theology, we have no reason to reject either the facts of nature or The Bible's words. Rather, we have reason to re-examine our interpretation of these facts and words because sound science and sound biblical exegesis will always be in harmony.

As I recently posted at:

Let's take another swipe at the Multiverse concept

The more grounded one is in science and logic, the less one will expect more extreme science fiction ideas will ever be possible regardless of whether they are scifi favorites, even in a billion years. For this person, that includes, time travel, teleportation beaming objects around in space much less people, faster than light speed travel, worm hole travel, mental telepathy and object control at distances, and specifically per this thread, simultaneous position multiverses coexisting in different planes of existence. And it isn't worthwhile trying to argue such things with non-science persons as they won't understand arguments.

For ordinary folks with comic book level science educations, many of the same ideas may be embraced as perfectly legitament future possibilities. Especially since themes with time travel, super-hero powers, etc are well-established in entertainment media. That noted, it is also true there are some science educated, that tend to grate against any notions that there ought be limitations as to what we humans think might be possible. For instance at the extreme, the Apollo episode in Star Trek or Q in Star Trek, The Next Generation level powers. But a majority of science educated will as I've related, reject magic level powers of actions without forces. So no rabbits materializing out of hats, even in billions of years.

Jesus's primary purpose as a carrot to humankind to reverse evil fleshly ways was offering God's gift of defeating otherwise certain mortal death non-existence with eternal life we celebrate on Easter that is well summed up in the one scriptural entry Paul wrote that does not depend on OOO narratives:

1 Corinthians 15:13-19

13 If there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised.
14 And if Christ has not been raised, our preaching is useless and so is your faith.
15 More than that, we are then found to be false witnesses about God, for we have testified about God that he raised Christ from the dead. But he did not raise him if in fact the dead are not raised.
16 For if the dead are not raised, then not even Christ has been raised;
17 and if Christ has not been raised, your faith is worthless; you are still in your sins.
18 Then also those who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.

19 If we have hoped in Christ only in this life, we are of all people most to be pitied.
 
Thanks folks for responding, even those that strongly reject my speculative hypotheses, and feel people, especially believers not make such heretical ideas public. Those reactions have value on this web board because that reflects dominant public attitudes that have existed over the last couple centuries as science and technology has overtaken former philosophical dogma. We in this community are here in part to read how a range of others think about issues.

Christian denominations are in crises with significant numbers of former members, especially from younger generations, rejecting what they once followed, stopping attending church for a list of varied reasons, and adopting loose semi religious personal beliefs or becoming agnostic or atheists. The more conservative denominations like rigid Young Earth inerrant Bible believers have been especially impacted. Those narratives were not testable until science and technology arose. Thus resulting in the growing crises today.

What my links point to is why OOO ideas, the key factor, arose from latter Greek neoplatonist beliefs of philosophers that have weak scriptural basis and then resulted in much supposedly inspired creative dogma from religious scholars that religious authorities wanted to believe were being inspired by the Holy Spirit. There is NT gospel scripture that supports the belief the Holy Spirit was supposed to be active forever after Jesus left helping we humans, so one can understand why well-meaning authorities expected their most educated, holy living scholars would be the ones God through the Holy Spirit is working with.

Of course, Jewish religious leaders in the Old Testament felt the same way for millennia before Jesus days. But when Jesus arose, they suddenly found Jesus significantly criticizing and condemning much dogma of what had been accumulated after Moses era. That tends to show God/angels stopped directly influencing most OT Levite religious leaders probably for moral reasons as a result of evil warmongering, wealth oriented, adulterers, power oriented, political powers gaining control. The OT books themselves chronicle much about generations of Israelite leaders who did evil and practiced religion more like their neighbors they were supposed to instead be moral examples for. So one might expect the same abandonment could have happened after the church was Romanized.

The tendency has been that once former believers change, that they then reject most of what they followed. My input is that need not be the case. And this person is in a unique position to suggest other ways of interpretation. We need not throw the baby out with the bath water. As science educated, old Earth apologist, and evangelist Dr. Hugh Ross wrote in his book "Creation and Time":

When science appears to be in conflict with theology, we have no reason to reject either the facts of nature or The Bible's words. Rather, we have reason to re-examine our interpretation of these facts and words because sound science and sound biblical exegesis will always be in harmony.

As I recently posted at:

Let's take another swipe at the Multiverse concept

The more grounded one is in science and logic, the less one will expect more extreme science fiction ideas will ever be possible regardless of whether they are scifi favorites, even in a billion years. For this person, that includes, time travel, teleportation beaming objects around in space much less people, faster than light speed travel, worm hole travel, mental telepathy and object control at distances, and specifically per this thread, simultaneous position multiverses coexisting in different planes of existence. And it isn't worthwhile trying to argue such things with non-science persons as they won't understand arguments.

For ordinary folks with comic book level science educations, many of the same ideas may be embraced as perfectly legitament future possibilities. Especially since themes with time travel, super-hero powers, etc are well-established in entertainment media. That noted, it is also true there are some science educated, that tend to grate against any notions that there ought be limitations as to what we humans think might be possible. For instance at the extreme, the Apollo episode in Star Trek or Q in Star Trek, The Next Generation level powers. But a majority of science educated will as I've related, reject magic level powers of actions without forces. So no rabbits materializing out of hats, even in billions of years.

Jesus's primary purpose as a carrot to humankind to reverse evil fleshly ways was offering God's gift of defeating otherwise certain mortal death non-existence with eternal life we celebrate on Easter that is well summed up in the one scriptural entry Paul wrote that does not depend on OOO narratives:

1 Corinthians 15:13-19

13 If there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised.
14 And if Christ has not been raised, our preaching is useless and so is your faith.
15 More than that, we are then found to be false witnesses about God, for we have testified about God that he raised Christ from the dead. But he did not raise him if in fact the dead are not raised.
16 For if the dead are not raised, then not even Christ has been raised;
17 and if Christ has not been raised, your faith is worthless; you are still in your sins.
18 Then also those who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.

19 If we have hoped in Christ only in this life, we are of all people most to be pitied.
............if ifs and ands were pots and pans................
 
Thanks folks for responding, even those that strongly reject my speculative hypotheses, and feel people, especially believers not make such heretical ideas public. Those reactions have value on this web board because that reflects dominant public attitudes that have existed over the last couple centuries as science and technology has overtaken former philosophical dogma. We in this community are here in part to read how a range of others think about issues.

Christian denominations are in crises with significant numbers of former members, especially from younger generations, rejecting what they once followed, stopping attending church for a list of varied reasons, and adopting loose semi religious personal beliefs or becoming agnostic or atheists. The more conservative denominations like rigid Young Earth inerrant Bible believers have been especially impacted. Those narratives were not testable until science and technology arose. Thus resulting in the growing crises today.

What my links point to is why OOO ideas, the key factor, arose from latter Greek neoplatonist beliefs of philosophers that have weak scriptural basis and then resulted in much supposedly inspired creative dogma from religious scholars that religious authorities wanted to believe were being inspired by the Holy Spirit. There is NT gospel scripture that supports the belief the Holy Spirit was supposed to be active forever after Jesus left helping we humans, so one can understand why well-meaning authorities expected their most educated, holy living scholars would be the ones God through the Holy Spirit is working with.

Of course, Jewish religious leaders in the Old Testament felt the same way for millennia before Jesus days. But when Jesus arose, they suddenly found Jesus significantly criticizing and condemning much dogma of what had been accumulated after Moses era. That tends to show God/angels stopped directly influencing most OT Levite religious leaders probably for moral reasons as a result of evil warmongering, wealth oriented, adulterers, power oriented, political powers gaining control. The OT books themselves chronicle much about generations of Israelite leaders who did evil and practiced religion more like their neighbors they were supposed to instead be moral examples for. So one might expect the same abandonment could have happened after the church was Romanized.

The tendency has been that once former believers change, that they then reject most of what they followed. My input is that need not be the case. And this person is in a unique position to suggest other ways of interpretation. We need not throw the baby out with the bath water. As science educated, old Earth apologist, and evangelist Dr. Hugh Ross wrote in his book "Creation and Time":

When science appears to be in conflict with theology, we have no reason to reject either the facts of nature or The Bible's words. Rather, we have reason to re-examine our interpretation of these facts and words because sound science and sound biblical exegesis will always be in harmony.

As I recently posted at:

Let's take another swipe at the Multiverse concept

The more grounded one is in science and logic, the less one will expect more extreme science fiction ideas will ever be possible regardless of whether they are scifi favorites, even in a billion years. For this person, that includes, time travel, teleportation beaming objects around in space much less people, faster than light speed travel, worm hole travel, mental telepathy and object control at distances, and specifically per this thread, simultaneous position multiverses coexisting in different planes of existence. And it isn't worthwhile trying to argue such things with non-science persons as they won't understand arguments.

For ordinary folks with comic book level science educations, many of the same ideas may be embraced as perfectly legitament future possibilities. Especially since themes with time travel, super-hero powers, etc are well-established in entertainment media. That noted, it is also true there are some science educated, that tend to grate against any notions that there ought be limitations as to what we humans think might be possible. For instance at the extreme, the Apollo episode in Star Trek or Q in Star Trek, The Next Generation level powers. But a majority of science educated will as I've related, reject magic level powers of actions without forces. So no rabbits materializing out of hats, even in billions of years.

Jesus's primary purpose as a carrot to humankind to reverse evil fleshly ways was offering God's gift of defeating otherwise certain mortal death non-existence with eternal life we celebrate on Easter that is well summed up in the one scriptural entry Paul wrote that does not depend on OOO narratives:

1 Corinthians 15:13-19

13 If there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised.
14 And if Christ has not been raised, our preaching is useless and so is your faith.
15 More than that, we are then found to be false witnesses about God, for we have testified about God that he raised Christ from the dead. But he did not raise him if in fact the dead are not raised.
16 For if the dead are not raised, then not even Christ has been raised;
17 and if Christ has not been raised, your faith is worthless; you are still in your sins.
18 Then also those who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.

19 If we have hoped in Christ only in this life, we are of all people most to be pitied.
I accept your given premise as do millions and millions of christians as they attend burial ceremonies for their loved ones - however we are not expecting our dearly departed to be seen walking through our neighborhood in three days time chatting to each and everyone. Yes they have been risen and moved on to meet us at a later time? Is there something unusual about that?
 
Rather, we have reason to re-examine our interpretation of these facts and words because sound science and sound biblical exegesis will always be in harmony.
This thought is very presumptuous. It is very poor science. My question is WHY do they have to be harmony, it is just one book? Is it inspired by the one true God?
 


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