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In The Western World There Was No Resurrection Of The Dead In Heaven Until The Ancient Greeks (8th Century BC)
    In the Bible, it is surprising that there is no reference to the dead being resurrected and going to heaven until the time of Christ.

    Prior to Christ, the Bible taught that humans just died like all other animals. Humans just ceased existing and somehow were united with God, but there was no mention of resurrection in paradise (heaven).

    Come to think of it; that is a glaring omission for the Old Testament in the Bible to not mention resurrection of the dead and life-everlasting in heaven. But prove this for yourself. Try to find any mention of resurrection of the dead and life-everlasting in paradise in the Old Testament. It is just not there.

    Likewise, the ancient Greeks originally didn't believe in resurrection of the dead and life-everlasting in paradise. There was one exception. The ancient Greeks (even in the 8th century BC) believed that kings and heroes partially existed after death as faint, ghost-like voices or entities who inhabited the farthest edge of the world in the Elysian fields.

      Homer, Odyssey 4. 56o ff (trans. Shewring) (Greek epic C8th B.C.) :
      "[The prophetic sea-god Proteus addresses Menelaos :] As for yourself, King Menelaos, it is not your fate to die in Argos . . . The Deathless Ones will waft you instead to the world's end, the Elysian fields (pedion Elysion) where yellow-haired Rhadamanthys is. There indeed men live unlaborious days. Snow and tempest and thunderstorms never enter there, but for men's refreshment Okeanos sends out continually the high-singing breezes of the west (aetae Zephyrioi). All this the gods have in store for you, remembering how your wife is Helene and how her father is Zeus himself
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This All Changed Once Alexander the Great Conquered Egypt in 332 BC.
    Alexander the Great conquered Egypt and was anointed as pharaoh in Memphis in 332 BC. Because Egypt had kept its borders closed to the Greeks prior to Alexander's conquest; the Greeks knew little about Egypt or its ancient religions.

    The Greeks soon discovered that the ancient Egyptians believed in resurrection of the dead - that's why Egyptians mummified their dead. The Egyptians also believed in life after death in paradise or heaven. This heaven wasn't reserved just for kings and heroes, as the ancient Greeks believed. The ancient Egyptians believed that all those who had not sinned would be admitted into paradise and have life-everlasting.

    These Egyptian religious beliefs had a profound impact on the ancient Greeks. The ancient Greek religion slowly evolved and started to teach that every Greek that had lived a good life would die and be resurrected in paradise (i.e., in Elysium or the Elysian Fields).

    The Greek teachings of resurrection of the dead with life-everlasting in paradise took the ancient world by storm. Who wouldn't want to be immortal and live in paradise? However, it took three centuries for this Greek religious teaching to reach the Jews (and to be taught by Jesus Christ).

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Posted - 09/02/2013 :  22:00:22  Show Profile
Fascinating.

I do believe in a Heaven on Earth if you live your life right.

Not sure about an after life.
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