Tract 9: A God of the Gaps Is a God of Ignorance

Uncovering the Hidden Technological Messages in the Bible In this deeply thought-provoking episode, we dive into one of our most controversial track series yet, exploring the intersections of religious beliefs, modern science, and physics. We challenge traditional interpretations of the afterlife as presented in the Bible and propose a compelling re-interpretation aligned with a scientific understanding of reality. We delve into various biblical texts, discussing concepts such as soul, heaven, and hell, and how they may actually describe a future technological scenario where humanity's consciousness is preserved and raised. We address the paradigm shifts this interpretation brings, consider the implications for the problem of suffering, and explore how these ideas harmonize with scientific principles. This episode promises to be a paradigm shift, offering a fresh perspective on how religion can relate to science, and how the Bible may have predicted advanced technological concepts thousands of years ago.

Note: First we have a transcript made by notepad (to hopefully be more accurate) then the original write up (which was changed significantly in the reading). Some day I will create a master version of all these but as you see with this one I am already updating significant past beliefs. If you are looking for specific ancient Hebrew or Greek words I mispronounced go there.

Hello, it's Simone. Today is going to be one of our controversial track series where we talk about our religious beliefs. If you're new to the channel, that's why the gear was read this time. It is warning you this is going to be extremely controversial interpretations, maybe the most controversial of all of the track series we have done. Anything you want to say that we would add on to the beginning of this now that you've seen the whole thing?

Yeah, having having spent the vast majority of my life thinking the concept of an afterlife was both ridiculous and impractical, also not very plausible based on all the descriptions of it, you've just presented to me something that actually seems compelling, but also based in our current understanding of of physics and science. Definitely a paradigm shift for me. So, I'm glad you just a paradigm shift for me as well. And that's why I made it so long to make sure I left no argument untouched.

Yeah. Yeah. And I mean, who knows, right? Our whole thing is if we're wrong, we want someone to be right. And that's why we're glad so many people disagree with us. But I think you're really on to something here. And I have fewer qualms with your arguments than I do with the typical arguments of most other religious traditions. Well, all other religious traditions that I've been introduced to and I've read about. these texts I've reviewed. So,

well, we'll see. Is this going to be my Rubyard take, Simone? My 10-hour video.

I mean, everyone has a moment

because in this one, we are going to go over what the I believe the Bible says happens to people after they die. What the Bible says about the human soul. And in both of these cases, it is not what the mainstream Christians would argue, which I think comes down from beliefs around like Allesium and and is much closer to Greek conceptions of what happens after death than original Christians or I think correct Christian conceptions or Jewish conceptions where the modern Christians believe that like you immediately go to heaven when you die which is a supernatural plane which actually creates a bunch of logical problems for other lines in the text and people can be like no that definitely happens there's definitely a heaven or hell like doesn't the Bible talk about like Gehenna and it's like well gehenna was a place like we know where it was and the way it's described in the Bible makes it pretty clear in those passages it is talking about a place or doesn't the Bible talk about humans having spirits or souls and I'm like actually if you go to the original words being used it's there it's usually saying something else like it's talking about breath or being alive like the life left his body not the spirit left his body um or you can be like but what about Lazarus what about Lazarus there was the time when Jesus talked about hell right in that one parable and it goes well unfortunately and we'll get into this in a lot more detail. The word used in the Lazarus parable was not show the Jewish hell. It was literally Hades, which creates a universe problem because that that unfortunately if he didn't mean that as a parable to get his story across to somebody with a Greek world view, it means that he has canonizing.

We're crossing the cannons. We're It's like now there's suddenly Gandalf is talking to Darth Vader and it's getting a little bit awkward. What's happening?

Please allow me to finish this because it's going to seemed like a bit of a jump. We see Thanos who was the villain teased at the end of the first Avengers movie. If he holds the reality gem, that means he can jump from different realities. This will be our link from to the Marvel universe from the Star Wars universe.

Is this an audience or a mosaic? Hey, how you doing? Looking good. Nice dress.

So, Hades, you finally made it. How are things in the underworld?

Well, they're just fine. You know, a little dark, a little gloomy, and as always, hey, full of dead people.

And there's a reason he didn't use the Jewish conception of hell to change the same parable. Okay,

so the point of the parable is if somebody was dead and they came back to life and said you should follow the rules that are set out by the old teachers, even then a person wouldn't believe them. The problem is if he framed this story with a traditional Jewish understanding of hell, the dead person would neither be conscious or in pain. So they would have no motivation to go back and warn their family. So he needed to use another culture's conception of hell to create this story.

Yeah. The plot can't work with the Jewish hell. I see.

Yeah. So it seems pretty clear that that wasn't what was intended by that, but we'll go into that in a lot more detail when you consider other parts that explicitly say that this stuff didn't exist, which are more commonly ignored.

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Now, I went over a bit of this with you going into all this. Simone, what was your thoughts on this as I went into it with you?

Well, honestly, the problem is you explain all this to me and everything just makes sense. And I'm like, well, yeah, of course.

Because I didn't come into this with anything more than a pop culture understanding of Christianity, which never made sense. And yeah, also an atheist's understanding of Christianity, which I think is divorced from what most Christians attending church are sort of led to believe that like, oh, Christians believe that you go to heaven after you die. Kind of like whatever in the Simpsons, you know.

Yeah. And then it's like, but also, don't Christians believe that we're all brought back to life in a future kingdom? Like, why are we all brought back to life if heaven's already operational?

Yeah. And there, you know, and then I I hear about hell and and, you know, there's all these cartoon devils and people talking about hell and threatening hell and I I read the Divine Comedy and then I read the Bible and I'm like, where where is hell? I'm looking for hell. Where is hell? And it's not showing up and I'm getting really confused. So, when you come come at me and you explain things this way, my Oh, of course. Right. That now it makes sense. Of of course.

More than any of the tracks we've done so far, writing this one has for me really deepened my faith in this worldview because it harmonizes so well with a scientific understanding of reality. And it has given me a different perception on how religion can rel