I read an article in a spiritual U tube blog, about a wealthy Canadian businessman, who got very sick was rushed to hospital where he lay clinically dead for 11 long minutes!

His story validated by publically available hospital records.

During the time he was clinically dead he saw both heaven and hell! And pure, totally terrifying, evil!

Saw that the latter was his destination and begged Jesus to be forgiven.

His rare second chance at life sees a changed man and on the public speaking tour, retelling, again and again, his eyewitness account of not just a near-death experience, but that of an actual crossing of the life and death divide.

And comes back to witness that everything just does not ends when you die! And will suffer the consequences of how you did or did not conduct your life!

Some deluded folk believe if you just sit and meditate and be a part-time good person is good enough to get to the promised land? And sweep away earned Karma?

While nobody is perfect! And many make many, many mistakes along the way!? At the end of the day, it's what's in your heart that matters and one needs to be able to forgive and move on if one doesn't want to be hurtling headlong into hell?

11 MINUTES CLINICALLY DEAD AND RETURNS TO BEAR WITNESS AS A RETURNING EYEWITNESS! AND ASSURES US THAT THERE ARE VERY REAL AND ETERNAL CONSEQUENCES FOR THE WAY YOU CONDUCT YOURSELF HERE IN THE PHYSICAL REALM!

UNDERSTAND JUST THIS MUCH, IT'S NOT ALL ABOUT YOU AND YOURS! BUT WHAT DO WITH ALL THE CONFERRED ADVANTAGES!
Alan B.

"Besides, we have no reason to believe that the laws of physics did not rule in biblical times and hence God did not intervene in the physical processes of the world back then as now."

Parting the water to allow the crossing of Red sea.

Now that would've be a sight wouldn't it?
- Assuming the fire and brimstone version is to be believed;

We can't let facts get in the way of a good story, right?

- Chinese whispers, essentially -

There was a small point along that waterway which could be crossed on a king tide. Maybe the water still flowed but became ankle-deep for a few hours, which allowed the crossing, but not for the pursuers when the tide was flowing back in.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/how-did-moses-part-the-red-sea-1417790250

Some of the things in the bible probably have a historical significance.

Alan, during our lives we have all seen paintings done in the times
of the Italian well known artists, Their painting of Hell are
certainly like what your visionary saw when he was dead.
Their paintings reinforced the Churches teachings.
Do you think that the Canadian businessman's brain knowing it was
dying, conjured up a vision based on those Italian paintings ?

Sorry for the no show for the last couple of months. I've been busy upgrading my new home & I've had a prostrate problem that I've beaten. PSA: .4 to 10 to .014 in six months. We'll see what the future brings.

Now the God thing. It really doesn't seem to matter which kind of Religion it is, Monotheism or Polytheism, or, any of the variants of those two, of which there are many & sub-groups of sub-groups of each of those. It's all the same. It just boils down to each variant’s "Dogma" & how they treat miscreants of their particular "Dogmas."

I have been doing my Genealogy & discovered something amazing. Now, I already knew that one of my early ancestors was Mary Magdalene, through the Mergovian Kings. That doesn't mean Jesus was a descendent. It means that MM's descendants were.

I have two lines that meet up in Scandinavia. One from the Stewarts & track sideways (MM). The ones that I'm interested are from William the Conqueror (Stewarts, also) & Somerled, (Donald’s) My Grandmother was a Donald.

Both these lines meet up in Scandinavia then track back to Xerxes 1 in Persia. So what's so great about that. I hear you ask. Well, he was married to Ester, of the Bible. Ester was the 19th. descendant of Benjamin of the Bible.

I know her father then there is a skip of 7 to the next known then there are 10 known to Benjamin. Multiple Jewish, Christian & Islamic Sites are working on the missing 10.

Now i will give you a rundown of descendants from there. Don't worry, there is a reason for this.
Cont

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Benjamin, Jacob, Issac, Abraham, Terah, Nahor, Serug, Rehu, Peleg, Eber, Shelah, Arpachshad, Shem.

I little explanation here. Shem is the Youngest of Noah's sons. He was persuaded to marry young. His wife was the result of a coupling of a human Woman & a Nephilim. The tall skinny ones. It's all there in Chronicles & Numbers. Interesting. Ay.

Then it's Noah, Lamech, Methuselah, Enoch, Jarod. Mahalalel, Keman, Enosh, Seth, & lastly Adam. Then of course God. God is my 123rd. Great, great Grandfather. WOW!

Some interesting things in the early writings. God had a wife. Eh What! Yes he did, & she started to disappear from 600 BC to 300 BC in the Jewish scriptures. She was removed altogether from Christian Scripture by the Septuagint. Her name, Asherah.

Adam, also had a pre-wife. Lilith, yes, she does also get a mention in the early writings. Apparently, God created them using both hands to mold. Persons, from the same Clay, at the same time. She objected to being Second to Adam, as she was created at the same time & therefore an equal. Adam didn’t like that so he sent her away. Lilith coupled with Cane to produce off-spring.

Then God created Eve from Adams Rib & she had to be subservient to Adam. It's all there in the early writings. Although, it is refused but still included by the three Monotheist Sects. Lilith also disappeared between 600 BC & 300 BC.

I have come to the conclusion that Genesis; Chronical & Numbers are the related remembering of one particular set of peoples. As in the Dreamtime & African Tribes relating their Ancestors back thousands of years. Apparently, some special people have that knowledge.

The Australian & African, & for most other early Religious Beliefs throughout the World trace their Ancestry to one or other Sky People. or, I'd put it, back from there has been lost.

Really, it all boils down to an attempt by early man to explain his surrounding once there started to be an intelligible language & curiosity.

Dear Jayb,

However interesting these stories about deities, their wives and the like are, they are not about God. If true at all, then these must be just gods with a small 'g' and as much as we can be fond of them, they are limited and not worthy of worship.

Similarly, the telling of these stories is a matter of culture, not religion. I will not go into whether or not these stories are true, there may also be some merit in them too, just let us keep our perspective please.