Anyway, riddle Me this: If the opposite of life is death and the afterlife, then how are Christians who go to heaven getting eternal life like Jesus said?
Many Christian sects reconcile it by asserting resurrection and then heaven.
No, in this specific context where Jesus is talking about moral deserts, he’s constructing heaven’s afterlife as a form of eternal life. So why is Jesus promising eternal life, if everyone gets eternal life anyway?
Most people would not regard eternal torture after death as a form of life.
My interpretation is that Hades and Sheol are two different places. Jews go to Sheol, Greeks go to Hades. The rich man in the parable is a Greek
Why do you say he’s a Greek? And again, this goes against the fact that Judaism at the time of the New Testament had been aggressively monotheist, not just monolatrous, for several hundred years. This also contradicts the fact that Jesus asserts that any man who does not follow him will suffer in the afterlife, not just Jews.
Jesus was a really nice guy, so I’d think he’d be a polytheist and respect other religions.
Is this the same Jesus who said that people who felt lust should tear out their own eyes? The same Jesus who asserts his followers must despise everyone except for him? The same Jesus who proclaimed to bring not peace, but a sword, and to fulfill the brutal Old Testament law?
On the other hand, being tortured in Tartarus really sucks, so I can see him trying to convert Greek sinners to save them from that bullshit.
Then it would be extremely curious that he spent all of his time preaching in Iudea if he sought to convert Greeks.
Because he went to Hades, and that’s where Greeks go
The same Jesus who asserts his followers must despise everyone except for him?
Nah, he said this:
“The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’ […] “He will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.’
If you did not recognise the divinity of the least of the gods, then you did not recognise the divinity of Jesus.
Because he went to Hades, and that’s where Greeks go
This may be a shock, but the entirety of the Gosepels were written in Greek.
Nah
“If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters—yes, even his own life—he cannot be My disciple”
If you did not recognise the divinity of the least of the gods, then you did not recognise the divinity of Jesus.
That line is explicitly in reference to mortal poor, referencing the hungry, the homeless, and those imprisoned.
Many Christian sects reconcile it by asserting resurrection and then heaven.
Most people would not regard eternal torture after death as a form of life.
Why do you say he’s a Greek? And again, this goes against the fact that Judaism at the time of the New Testament had been aggressively monotheist, not just monolatrous, for several hundred years. This also contradicts the fact that Jesus asserts that any man who does not follow him will suffer in the afterlife, not just Jews.
Is this the same Jesus who said that people who felt lust should tear out their own eyes? The same Jesus who asserts his followers must despise everyone except for him? The same Jesus who proclaimed to bring not peace, but a sword, and to fulfill the brutal Old Testament law?
Then it would be extremely curious that he spent all of his time preaching in Iudea if he sought to convert Greeks.
Because he went to Hades, and that’s where Greeks go
Nah, he said this:
If you did not recognise the divinity of the least of the gods, then you did not recognise the divinity of Jesus.
This may be a shock, but the entirety of the Gosepels were written in Greek.
“If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters—yes, even his own life—he cannot be My disciple”
That line is explicitly in reference to mortal poor, referencing the hungry, the homeless, and those imprisoned.