I’m in. Show me.
One person I know personally that had an NDE, would not talk a lot about it, but the one thing he did relate is that 'all the nonsense religion spouts? The beings on the other side, they don't care. Just be loving.'
And that aligns with what Jesus said: To love God with all your heart, and to love your fellow man.
Iām in. Show me.<<<
And since nully understands the value of a 2 x 4, maybe he wants to know too.
Here's the background section from the NT -- what you had tied in. It's where the island of Avalon is located, in the Torah where it's been overlooked completely.
š¤ How does something like that even happen? It's an important place, where the Excalibur was forged. But then the sword was firmly embedded in a stone and could only be extracted by the rightful heir. (It's not any work at all if it is love.)
It is in context of the Resurrection:
Those who were convinced that there was no resurrection cleverly proposed a "Gotcha!" about a woman who kept marrying a long line of brothers because no offspring had been produced and her husbands kept on dropping like flies. No sense of humor seed apparently. This woman was sterile, and took an entire family line down with her. (Why do men die before women? Because they want to.) Does human nature ever change?
Mark 12
23 In the resurrection therefore, when they shall rise, whose wife shall she be of them? for the seven had her to wife.
24 And Jesus answering said unto them, Do ye not therefore err, because ye know not the scriptures, neither the power of God?
25 For when they shall rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage; but are as the angels which are in heaven.
See that, Laz? They are like the angels. Up there, they wouldn't be doing anything wrong, unlike down here when they were married to that woman. No wonder those poor sad-u-sees came up with such a "foolproof" story line. They could not comprehend any existence outside of being guilty of everything all day every day. Sad.
Free the mind and live.
So as the passage continues, to err is human, to forgive is divine:
26 And as touching the dead, that they rise: have ye not read in the book of Moses, how in the bush God spake unto him, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?
27 He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living: ye therefore do greatly err.
28 And one of the scribes came, and having heard them reasoning together, and perceiving that he had answered them well, asked him, Which is the first commandment of all?
29 And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord:
30 And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.
31 And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.
As you know, that's straight from the Shema, the Jewish statement of faith, even spoken with one's dying breath. It was joined up to the Golden Rule which was taught by Bill and Ted and is the very basis of the future world, "Be excellent to each other."
The "mythical" Island of Avalon [×× ×××××] is located in 5 places in the Tanakh, all in the Torah, in Deuteronomy -- Devarim, the "words, commandments" [of Moses] (6:5, 10:12, 13:4, 30:6, 30:10), with the same message, beginning in the Shema. Seeing is believing, in the heads, of the words (in the roshei teivot, lit; the heads of boxes -- which are also container rescue ships such as Noah's Ark and Baby Moses' basket).
(Missing ship's movement is a serious offense.)
Deuteronomy 6
4 Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD:
5 And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul*, and with all thy might.
6 And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:
7 And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
8 And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes.
9 And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.
10 And it shall be, when the LORD thy God shall have brought thee into the land which he sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give thee great and goodly cities, which thou buildedst not,
11 And houses full of all good things, which thou filledst not, and wells digged, which thou diggedst not, vineyards and olive trees, which thou plantedst not; when thou shalt have eaten and be full;
12 Then beware lest thou forget the LORD, which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.
* ××Ŗ ×××× ××××× ××× ×××× ×××× × ×¤×©×
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What's not to love, and how could anyone forget, even to lose sight of the place completely, yet...?
"Baseless hatred" is the traditional explanation for the reason behind the destruction of the Temples.
How to build a Temple? One 2 x 4 at a time. Or all at once when time is of the essence. Proper use of dimensional lumber will get things moving along, up and running in no time.
And THAT's how you know "etz time."
Voila!
~ EZ