Eternal life in heaven was a metaphor for uploading your consciousness into the clouds.
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That might initially appear to be a joke, but it's more than that. It's the trajectory of Faustian civilization. Every significant innovation (technology or philosophy), since ~1000AD, has been about transforming the imaginary/metaphorical into the literal/physical.
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Tired: Debunking the Bible, mythologies, and magic as fake. Wired: Using the Bible and mythologies as inspirations for technological innovations. "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." - Arthur C Clarke
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Replying to @MimeticValue @derek_j_morris and
I get it but unconvinced. It may have been much more literal than you think. Like those antediluvians living 600 years.
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Yes, I agree, I won’t disqualify the seemingly impossible just because it’s not repeatable. I think they intended that these miracles were literal, nevertheless, I think its significance is that “with God, all things are possible.”
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Replying to @Ahimsa_Satya_ @MimeticValue and
By no means mutually exclusive.
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Yes, and even Pharoahs magicians could perform miracles.
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