Posted on 08/06/2009 7:52:33 PM PDT by jxb7076
Except in biblical or other written religious accounts, no scientific evidence has ever been documented to prove that there is a physical Heaven or a physical Hell. In the absence of evidence why then do millions of people believe so strongly in a Heaven and a Hell – and how could such beliefs in the unproven have survived scientific scrutiny for so long?
For those raised in Judea-Christian doctrine Heaven and Hell does, in fact exist and one of these places is waiting for the soul of the deceased in the afterlife.
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Google St. Faustina’s vision of hell or Sister Josefa Menéndez experience of hell.
These are eye openers!
There is no no evidence that you have a back part of your head. You have never seen it, you have seen a reflection of a reflection but not the actual back part of your head.
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You left out Purgatory. Purgatory is waiting in line at the DMV.
You're welcome.
granny, I don't think your thoughts are strange at all. Had more written out earlier then connection went out.
I've been ruminating about something else lately I wanted to mention and can't remember what it was.
I have that problem all the time, its called a senior moment...When it happens in the middle of a sentence, I am getting pretty good at faking it..
Don't you hate that? I can't even fake it. Plus I've been having rolling blackouts all afternoon, I mean the kind where I lose the connection, started with the heavy rain we had today. It eventually comes to me. It did. It's very profound.
The other night I was thinking about the feeding of the 5000. I got this far with it. Figured they must have picked up after themselves and not left a mess. And they did collect all the leftovers, told how many baskets, have to look that up.
Then my thoughts wandered to wondering with that many people, what did they do when they had to, will try to put it politely, use the public restroom? Didn't get anywhere with that.
Now B4 I post, I get to thinking in some ways, they had more freedom under the Roman occupation to have a spontaneous gathering like that than we have now although I know the Romans did brutal things at times. Heck we'd have to apply somewhere for a permit, pay a fee, hire security guards, rent those porta things, clear it with the health department, jump through hoops, surely I forgot something here. "He's going to do WHAT?" Denied.
So it goes, don't mean to make light of it but often wonder how some of it really was in those times.
CS Lewis wrote about heaven, hell and purgatory in a little book called “The Great Divorce.”
It is just unforgettable, once read. Amazing story...
It’s easier - though yet challenging - to sort this stuff out through Torah. It becomes harder in Nevi’im and Ketuvim... Harder still throughout the NT until Revelation, which seems, to me, truly polytheistic.
Lewis’s works have a lot of women characters. “The Screwtape Letters” is still relevant. He was quite the writer. “Surprised by Joy” is another, and after his wife died, “A Grief Observed.”
Anyone interested in the subject should look into the writings of Emanuel Swedenborg.
Thanks for the tip. I will look at his writings.
The author is a twit who doesn't understand science.
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
What does the twit author think are the physical properties of heaven that would make it discernable to the scientific method?
As far as I know, the only ‘physical’ heaven described is “Kolob” or some such.
I apologize.
Kolob?
Good point! The Torah, in its original writings made it simpler for me.
"And When I Die," written and first performed by Laura Nyro, but covered by others.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolob
A planet/heaven, a physical place presumably.
The heaven in Christian tradition is a spiritual not a physical place.
And shouldn’t you include “vanity” somewhere in your title?
Thanks for the explanation. I should have included this information someplace in the hub.
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