Are both heaven and heck imaginary, gated cities cooked up by religious monks (paid religious actors) thousands of years ago to try to motivate people to put money into collection plates based on the idea of reward (carrot) vs punishment (sticks)?
How are some animals like donkeys motivated?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donkey
Carrot (food - heaven) and stick (punishment - hell)?
Judaism used the idea along the lines of:
Gated and walled community like Jerusalem was deemed to be a safe community (from thieves, robbers, etc.).
Hell was an ungated, unwalled community which could easily be plundered and burnt to the ground by barbarians.
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In the New Testament, Jesus's idea of heaven was a heaven in the sky inhabited by Abraham and Elijah (carried up to heaven in a chariot) . Heaven is often viewed as being a place in the sky above the city of Jerusalem.
X-reference: Jacob's Ladder*
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob's_Ladder
and
in the New Testament, Jesus's idea of hell was the smelly garbage dump at edge of the city of Jerusalem which smoldered day and night?
Your view?
What do the scriptures of Judaism actually say?
Did Jesus Christ call the people who listened to his sermons evil?
Did Jesus view
Sheep as being godly
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestic_sheep
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheat
and
Goats as being ungodly
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goat
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaff
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* It is suspected that Jacob's Ladder - 2010 - has been replaced by an escalator.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escalator[i]
14 Sep 2010, 12:41 pm
