Facts about Heaven And The Tree Of Life Many Don’t Know (New Earth Revealed) FYTube

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1. I'm God

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2. if the tree of life is thru a river and is rooted on the both sides of that river…i wonder what the tree of knowledge is like…its probably on some mountain tops

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3. The church is going through the tribulation, God's made the tribulation for our good, to trust in Him and not in Egypt. He is separating us from the world 🌎, He is behind the beast kingdom, He is the one bringing in the mark of the beast to force the church into this coming wilderness tribulation. The whole world is going to hate His people, no more help from Egypt. We the Church the called out one's called out of Babylonian churches, are going to be thrust into the mercy and grace of God, and the only thing we really need to be sustained is to repent of our sins and believe His Word. He is Faithful to all His promises, He provided, protected His people in the wilderness, the only ones that didn't enter the Promised Land which is a type of Heaven were the complainers the mummers the one's that didn't believe in God's Word . only Joshua and Caleb and their family entered the Promised Land. We are spiritual Israel in the New Testament, The New Jerusalem .

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4. Miracles and Apotheosis in the Ancient Mediterranean World

   "It should first be noted that miracle stories are not uncommon in the literature of this period. Ancient people believed in a world permeated by the supernatural and readily accepted stories of miracles and believed in stories of visions and visitors from the world of the divine all the time. Even very sober and sometimes sceptical historians like Tacitus will pass on accounts of miracles that he clearly accepts and expects his audience to believe as historical.

   So when we read stories of how the emperor Augustus was miraculously conceived by the god Apollo, or how his birth was presaged by a new star in the heavens, or how Julius Caesar was seen ascending into the heaven after his death or how Vespasian healed lame and blind people who asked him for a miracle, we accept that these stories represent the kinds of things ancient people genuinely believed about great men. Or we accept that they are at least told to indicate that the man in question was great. What we don't do is accept that simply because people believed these stories they must mean that they really happened.

   And this is even when the stories are presented to us by a very careful historian and given to us as verified fact. Take Tacitus' account of the miracles of the emperor Vespasian:

   "In the months during which Vespasian was waiting at Alexandria for the periodical return of the summer gales and settled weather at sea, many wonders occurred which seemed to point him out as the object of the favour of heaven and of the partiality of the Gods. One of the common people of Alexandria, well known for his blindness, threw himself at the Emperor's knees, and implored him with groans to heal his infirmity. This he did by the advice of the God Serapis, whom this nation, devoted as it is to many superstitions, worships more than any other divinity. …. And so Vespasian, supposing that all things were possible to his good fortune, and that nothing was any longer past belief, with a joyful countenance, amid the intense expectation of the multitude of bystanders, accomplished what was required. The hand was instantly restored to its use, and the light of day again shone upon the blind. Persons actually present attest both facts, even now when nothing is to be gained by falsehood." (Histories, IV, 81)

   Tacitus was closely connected to the court of Vespasian's sons and successors, Titus and Domitian, and so in a position to know the "persons actually present" and to consult them long after Vespasian's death "when nothing is to be gained by falsehood". He was also a very careful historian who scorned those who took rumour and stories as fact without checking them against sources and eye witnesses and who condemned those who "catch eagerly at wild and improbable rumours in preference to genuine history" (Annals, IV,11).

   Despite this, I don't know anyone who would read the account above and conclude that the emperor really had magical healing powers and genuinely used his supernatural abilities to heal people. The fact that even a judicious and often sceptical analyst like Tacitus accepted this story shows us just how readily people in the ancient world accepted claims of the miraculous.

   One form of miracle that was widely believed in was the idea of apotheosis, where a great man is physically taken up in to the heavens and raised to divine status. It was claimed that Romulus, the founder of Rome, underwent this process and later appeared to his friend Julius Proculus to declare his new celestial status. The same claim was made about Julius Caesar and Augustus, with supposed witnesses observing their ascent into the heavenly realm. Lucian's satire The Passing of Peregrinus includes his scorn for the claim that the philosopher was taken up into the celestial realm and was later seen walking around on earth after his death. The Chariton novel Callirhoe has its hero Chaereas visiting the tomb of his recently dead wife, saying he "arrived at the tomb at daybreak" where he "found the stones removed and the entrance open. At that he took fright." Others are afraid to enter the tomb, but Chaereas goes in and finds his wife's body missing and concludes she has been taken up by the gods."

   If you want to read how the resurrection legend grew over time, read the below article by Tim O'Neill who is a former Christian and has been studying the scholarship for over 25 years.

   Answer
   What-evidence-is-there-for-Jesus-Christs-death-burial-and-resurrection/answer/Tim-ONeill-1 – Quora

   You can also read the below article by a former Christian apologist on how he agrees with the mainstream scholarship that Jesus was a failed apocalyptic prophet.

   "ex-apologist: On One of the Main Reasons Why I Think Christianity is False (Reposted)"

   Also, how cognitive dissonance possibly explains early Christianity.

   “The Rationalization Hypothesis: Is a Vision of Jesus Necessary for the Rise of the Resurrection Belief?” — by Kris Komarnitsky | Κέλσος – WordPress

   "How do we know that the biblical writers were **not** writing history? — by Dr Steven DiMattei"

   "How Did The Gospel Writers Know? – The Doston Jones Blog"

   "Yes, the Four Gospels Were Originally Anonymous: Part 1 – The Doston Jones Blog"

   "Are Stories in the Bible Influenced by Popular Greco-Roman Literature? – The Doston Jones Blog"

   "Gospels Not Written By Matthew, Mark, Luke or John – The Church Of Truth"

   "February 2015 – Escaping Christian Fundamentalism" – Isaiah 53

   "Jesus and the Messianic Prophecies – Did the Old Testament Point to Jesus? – The Bart Ehrman Blog"

   "Jesus did not fulfill any messianic prophecies — Reductio Ad Absalom"

   "Jesus Was Not the Only “Prophet” to Predict the Destruction of the Temple – Escaping Christian Fundamentalism"

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5. The Enuma Elish would later be the inspiration for the Hebrew scribes who created the text now known as the biblical Book of Genesis. Prior to the 19th century CE, the Bible was considered the oldest book in the world and its narratives were thought to be completely original. In the mid-19th century CE, however, European museums, as well as academic and religious institutions, sponsored excavations in Mesopotamia to find physical evidence for historical corroboration of the stories in the Bible. **These excavations found quite the opposite, however, in that, once cuneiform was translated, it was understood that a number of biblical narratives were Mesopotamian in origin.**

   Famous stories such as the Fall of Man and the Great Flood were originally conceived and written down in Sumer, translated and modified later in Babylon, and reworked by the Assyrians **before they were used by the Hebrew scribes for the versions which appear in the Bible.**

   **In revising the Mesopotamian creation story for their own ends, the Hebrew scribes tightened the narrative and the focus but retained the concept of the all-powerful deity who brings order from chaos.** Marduk, in the Enuma Elish, establishes the recognizable order of the world – just as God does in the Genesis tale – and human beings are expected to recognize this great gift and honor the deity through service.

   "Enuma Elish – The Babylonian Epic of Creation – Full Text – World History Encyclopedia"

   "Sumerian Is the World's Oldest Written Language | ProLingo"

   "Sumerian Civilization: Inventing the Future – World History Encyclopedia"

   "The Myth of Adapa – World History Encyclopedia"

   Also discussed by Professor Christine Hayes at Yale University in her 1st lecture of the series on the Hebrew Bible from 8:45 to 14:30 minutes, lecture 3 from 28:30 to 41:35 minutes, lecture 4 from 0:00 up to 21:30 minutes and 24:00 up to 35:30 minutes and lecture 7 from 24:20 to 25:10 minutes.

   From a Biblical scholar:

   "Many stories in the ancient world have their origins in other stories and were borrowed and modified from other or earlier peoples. For instance, many of the stories now preserved in the Bible are **modified** versions of stories that existed in the cultures and traditions of Israel’s **older** contemporaries. Stories about the creation of the universe, a cataclysmic universal flood, digging wells as land markers, the naming of important cultic sites, gods giving laws to their people, and even stories about gods decreeing the possession of land to their people were all part of the cultural and literary matrix of the ancient Near East. Biblical scribes freely **adopted and modified** these stories as a means to express their own identity, origins, and customs."

   "Stories from the Bible" by Dr Steven DiMattei, from his website "Biblical Contradictions"

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   In addition, look up the below articles.

   "Yahweh was just an ancient Canaanite god. We have been deceived! – Escaping Christian Fundamentalism"

   "Debunking the Devil – Michael A. Sherlock (Author)"

   "The Greatest Trick Religion Ever Pulled: Convincing Us That Satan Exists | Atheomedy"

   "Zoroastrianism And Persian Mythology: The Foundation Of Belief"
   (Scroll to the last section: Zoroastrianism is the Foundation of Western Belief)

   "10 Ways The Bible Was Influenced By Other Religions – Listverse"

   "January | 2014 | Atheomedy" – Where the Hell Did the Idea of Hell Come From?

   "Retired bishop explains the reason why the Church invented "Hell" – Ideapod"

   Watch "The Origins of Salvation, Judgement and Hell" by Derreck Bennett at Atheologica
   (Sensitive theists should only watch from 7:00 to 17:30 minutes as evangelical Christians are lambasted. He's a former theist and has been studying the scholarship and comparative religions for over 15 years)

   "Top Ten Reasons Noah’s Flood is Mythology – The Sensuous Curmudgeon"

   "Forget about Noah's Ark; There Was No Worldwide Flood | Bible Interp"

   "The Search for Noah’s Flood – Biblical Archaeology Society"

   "Eridu Genesis – World History Encyclopedia"

   Watch "How Aron Ra Debunks Noah's Flood"
   (8 part series debunking Noah's flood using multiple branches of science)

   "The Adam and Eve myth – News24"

   "Before Adam and Eve – Psychology Today"

   "Gilgamesh vs. Noah – WordPress"

   "Parallelism between “The Hymn to Aten” and Psalm 104 – Project Augustine"

   "Old Testament Tales Were Stolen From Other Cultures – Griffin"

   "Studying the Bible" – by Dr Steven DiMattei
   (This particular article from a critical Biblical scholar highlights how the authors of the Hebrew Bible used their fictional god as a mouthpiece for their own views and ideologies)

   "How do we know that the biblical writers were **not** writing history?" — by Dr Steven DiMattei

   "Contradictions in the Bible | Identified verse by verse and explained using the most up-to-date scholarly information about the Bible, its texts, and the men who wrote them" — by Dr. Steven DiMattei

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