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alchemy61@yahoogroups.com Subject: Did the Jews Believe the Damned Became Nonexistent in Hell?
************Here are some answers I received. Thank you very much.
************Actually there is a world of fire in a fifth dimensional direction defined by Harvard quantum physicist professor Dr. Lisa Randall, who only defined the globally bent timespaces in terms of the gravitational and velocity analogues in mechanical engineering. ************But, the entropy production rate, EPR, analogue in thermodynamics shows that in globally bent timespaces with pi values less than e=2.718... everything is in flames, thus, the globally bent timespace with a pi value of e=2.718 is the fifth dimensional surface of the Lake of Fire.
************But, the Hindus and Buddhists know this, and call this fire world "Dharmaloka", and say that all those in it have a fire body called the "dharmakaya". They say that in here it is most probable to attain Nirvana, where "the drop returns to the Great Sea, undifferentiation, in other worlds, the attainment of nonexistence, called Liberation.
************Thus we see that there are two kinds of religionists, Liberationists, and Salvationists who have apparently lowered themselves to lying in order to bring in the cash, to maintain their Cadillacs, etc.
************A Cartesian coordinate system maps this hyperdimensional world. The X axis represents opposite polarities separated, the Y axis represents opposite polarities united and cancelled out, and the "origin" represents instant cancellation. ************As you approach the origin the polarity cancellation rate, which is identical with EPR, increases, and thus accesses the lower values of pi of the globally bent timespaces. ************Below flat timespace, with the familiar value of pi at 3.14159265..., has been called the Underworld. But, the problem is that as you descend into the Underworld the more powerful your mind becomes to materialize your visualizations as reality.
************In doing this you are not changing one world along a single time line, you are more easily traveling in the sixth dimensional direction to resonant timelines, the probability timelines revealed by Dr. Hugh Everett.
************Just knowing this makes you aware of this power. Those ignorant of this knowledge are as helpless as leaves in a river, but, they will soon go down into the fire world to, theoretically, cancel out into nothingness, fast. There is an orgy in the Lake of Fire.
************For those who know, down in so far, where every thought manifests, and those who know too much end up body switching backward and forward in time, for as much as a hundred years before finding a stable position again from which to start over. This unstable period is called "the aeon of failure", aioniu amartaematos", translated into English "eternal damnation", in the Greek New Testament. ************What are the polarities? The polarities are closed circuits of the one substance, E=Mc², in the one substance, E-Mc², counterclockwise (M), and clockwise (F). These are the entities, the "I's" of Dr. Douglas Hofstadter; but, circuits, not "strange loops".
************You are your prime polarity, your "self". And, where the English Bible says "deny self", the original Greek is "anaesthestho auton", cancel self, and that feels good. It is not depriving yourself.
************Where is God in all this? In 1John1:5 it says, "God is light". We know that light is energy. "In Him we live and move and have our being".
************In the universe there are two things, energy, and "information". In this living systems dynamics definition, "information" is defined to be "the conformation of energy". ************Like a sheet, energy; wrinkles in this sheet are information. Pull the sheet out, and the information disappears, it "perishes". The distance of the wrinkles from the flat surface define the eighth dimension.
************Pains are sharp spikes in this three dimensional graph, in the eighth dimension. The other two dimensions here are the ninth and the tenth dimensions. ************What happened to the seventh dimension? It is that distance between the X axis and the Y axis of our polarity cancellation graph. As opposite polarities merge, there is a rising frequency represented by colors ranging from red by the X axis to violet by the Y axis.
************Using a bouncing ball analogy, the floor could represent the Y axis. As the ball settles down on the floor it bounces faster and faster, with a higher frequency. ************If the ball is slapped it will again bounce to higher heights. This is done by our organism's negative feedback mechanisms to keep us alive.
************But, there is another phenomenon, self cancellation. If we have 5 polarities, like our prime polarity, merging with 4 opposite polarities, and there are no more opposite polarities around to compensate, our system here will self cancel from 5 to 4, green; to 4 to 3, yellow; 3 to 2, orange; 2 to 1, red; and, when our prime polarity, us, is alone, 1 to no opposite polarities, it is experienced as a painful white dot on a black background for a while. ************Then, the extreme voltage of the lone polarity ultimately attracts opposite polarities again. The Second Law of Thermodynamics guarantees it. You will notice this color process, of color progression, in the change colors of leave in the Autumn, when the cooler environment allows easier polarity cancellation. ************But, in flat timespace there are orthogonal separations from the opposite polarities possible, so that only unbalanced polarity cancellation can take place in those situations.
************You will find this color progression representing the progression of history in Rev. Jonathan Lawton Hammond's "THE GOD CODE and Creation". He puts the world of the damned in the infrared, as though such individually high voltages could be maintained. Tell me how that can be done do I can patent a battery that will never run out.
**************"Did the Jews Believe in
Eternal Torment?" was e-mailed to me after an inquiry. ************"Noting that we teach that the doctrine of everlasting torment was engrafted upon the doctrines of the Christian Church during the period of the apostasy, the great falling away which culminated in Papacy, some have inquired whether it does not seem, accordingto the works of Josephus, that this doctrine was firmly held by the Jews; and, if so, they ask, does it not seem evident that the early Christians, being largely converts from Judaism, brought this doctrine with them, in the very outstart of Christianity? We answer, No; the doctrine of everlasting torment sprang naturally from the doctrine of human immortality, which as a philosophic question was first promulgated in anything like the present form by thePlatonic school of Grecian philosophy. These first affirmed that each man contained a fragment of deity, and that this would prevent him from ever dying. This foundation laid, it was as easy to describe a place for evil-doers as for well-doers. But to the credit of those heathen philosophers be it recorded that they failed to develop, or at least to manifest, that depth of degradation from benevolence and reason and pity, necessary to paint, by word and pen and brush, such details of horrors and agonies as were soon incorporated into their doctrine, and a belief thereof declared "necessary to salvation" in the professed church of Christ. To appreciate the case, it is necessary to remember that, when the Christian Church was established, Greece stood at the head of intelligence and civilization. Alexander the Great had conquered the world, and had spread respect for Greece everywhere; and though, from a military point of view, Rome had taken her place, it was otherwise in literature. For centuries, Grecian philosophers and philosophies led the intellectualworld, and impregnated and affected everything.It became customary for philosophers and teachers of other theories to claim that their systems and theories were nearly the same as those of the Grecians, and to endeavor to remove differences between their old theories and the popular Grecian views. And some sought to make capital by claiming that their system embraced all the good points of Platonism with others which Plato did not see.
Of this class were the teachers in the Christian Church in the second, third and fourth centuries. Conceding the popularly accepted correctness of the philosophers, they claimed that the same good features of philosophy were found in Christ's teachings, and that he was one of the greatest philosophers, etc. Thus a blending of Platonism and Christianity took place.This became the more pronounced as kings and emperors began to scrutinize religious teachings, and to favor those most likely to awe the people and make them law-abiding. While heathen teachers were truckling to such imperial scrutiny, and teaching an everlasting punishment for those who violated the laws of the emperors (who ruled as divinely appointed),we cannot suppose otherwise than that the ambitious characters in the church at that time, who were seeking to displace heathenism and to become the dominant religious power instead, would make prominent such doctrines as would in the eyes of the emperors seem to have an equal hold upon the fears and prejudices of the people. And what could be more to the purpose than the doctrine of the endless torment of the refractory?
The same motives evidently operated with Josephus when writing concerning the belief of the Jews. His works should be read as apologies for Judaism, and as efforts to exalt that nation in the eyes of Rome and the world. It should be remembered that the Jews had the reputation of being a very rebellious people, very unwilling to be ruled even by the Caesars. They were hoping, in harmony with God's promises, to become the chief nation. Many rebellious outbreaks had occurred among them, and their peculiar religion, different from all others, came in for its shareof blame for favoring too much the spirit of liberty. Josephus had an object in writing his two principal works, "Antiquities" and "Wars of the Jews." He wrote them in the Greek language while living at Rome, where he was the friend and guest successively of the Roman emperors Vespasian, Titus and Domitian, and where he was in constant contact with the Grecian philosophers. These books were written for the purpose of showing off the Jewish people, their courage, laws, ethics, etc., to the best advantage before the Grecian philosophers and Roman dignitaries. This object is covertly admitted in his preface to his "Antiquities," in which he says:
"I have undertaken the present work as thinking it will appear to all the Greeks worthy of their study....Those that read my book may wonder that my discourse of laws and historical facts contains so much of philosophy...However, those that have a mind to know the reasons of everything may find here avery curious philosophical theory." In a word, as a shrewd man who himself had become imbued with the spirit of the Grecian philosophers then prevailing, Josephus drew from the Law and the Prophets, and from the traditions of the elders and the theories of the various sects of the Jews, all he could find that in the most remote degree would tend to show:--
First, that the Jewish religion was not far behind popular Grecian philosophy; but that somewhat analogous theories had been drawn from Moses' Law, and held by some Jews, long before the Grecian philosophers broached them.
Secondly, that it was not their religious ideas which made the Jews as a people hard to control or "rebellious," as all liberty-lovers were esteemed by the Caesars. Hence he attempts to prove, at a time when virtue was esteemed to consist mainly in submission, that Moses' Law "taught first of all that God is the Father and Lord of all things, and bestows a happy life upon those that follow him, but plunges such as do not walk in the paths of virtue into inevitable miseries." And it is in support of this idea, and for such purposes, evidently, that Josephus, after saying: "There are three philosophical sects among the Jews; first, the Pharisees; second, the Sadducees, and third, the Essenes," proceeds to give an account of their three theories; especially detailing any features which resembled Grecian philosophy. And because the last and least, the Essenes, most resembled the doctrines of the Stoics and leading Grecian theories, Josephus devotes nearly ten times as much space to their views as to the views of both Sadducees and Pharisees combined. And yet the Essenes were so insignificant a sect that the New Testament does not even mention them, while Josephus himself admits they were few. Whatever views they held, therefore, on any subject, cannot be claimed as having Jewish sanction, when the vast majority of Jews held contrary opinions. The very fact that our Lord and the apostles did not refer to them is good evidence that the Essenes' philosophy by no means represented the Jewish ideas. This small sect probably grew up later and probably absorbed from Grecian philosophy its ideas concerning immortality and the everlasting torment of the non-virtuous. It should be remembered that Josephus was not born until three years after our Lord's crucifixion, and that he published his "Wars" A.D. 75 and "Antiquities" A.D. 93--at a time when he and other Jews, like all the rest of the world, were eagerly swallowing Grecian philosophy and science falsely so called, against which Paul warned the church.-- Col. 2:8; 1 Tim. 6:20.
Josephus directed special attention to the Essenes because it suited his object to do so. He admits that the Sadducees, next to the largest body of Jewish people, did not believe in human immortality. And of the Pharisees' views he makes a blind statement, calculated tomislead, as follows: "They also believe that souls have an immortal vigor in them [this might be understood to mean that the Pharisees did not believe as the Sadducees that death ended all existence, but believed in a vigor or life beyond the grave--by a resurrection of the dead], and that under the earth there will be rewards and punishments, according as they have lived virtuously or viciously in this life; and that the latter are to be detained in an everlasting prison [death--not torture], but that the former [the virtuous] shall have power to revive and live again." Is it not apparent that Josephus has whittled and stretched the views of the Pharisees, as much as his elastic conscience would allow, to show a harmony between them and the philosophies of Greece? Paul,who had been a Pharisee, contradicts Josephus. While Josephus says they believed "that only the virtuous would revive and live again [Does not this imply a resurrection, and imply also that the others would not again, but remain dead, in the great prison--the tomb?]" Paul, on the contrary, says: "I have hope toward God, which they themselves also allow, that there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust."-- Acts 24:15.
We have no hesitancy about accepting the testimony of the inspired Apostle Paul, not only in regard to what the Jews believed, but also as to what he and the early Church believed; and we repeat, that the theory of the everlasting torment of the wicked, based upon the theory that the human soul cannot die, is contrary to both the Old and the New Testament teachings, and was introduced among Jews and Christians by Grecian philosophers. Thank God for the purer philosophy of the Scriptures, which teaches that the death of the soul (being) is the penalty of sin (Ezek. 18:20); that all souls condemned through Adam's sin were redeemed by Christ's soul (Isa. 53:10); and that only for wilful, individual sin will any die the Second death -- an everlasting punishment, but not an everlasting torment."