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Porknpie,
Have you considered what Jesus Himself says about Heaven?
. “If I have told you earthly things, and you believe not, how shall you believe, if I tell you of heavenly things? And no man has ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven. And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up…”
Let us consider this statement of its context and understand it as it relates to Jesus’ birth. His physical human body descended from the womb of Mary, not from a physical heaven, and thus His physical human body would not ascend to a physical heaven, even as He was physically present on earth when He made this statement.
We also have the story of Moses arguing with Pharaoh’s ministers. He threw down the staff of heavenly reason, which swallowed up the staff of evasive and false doctrine, faulty reasoning of Pharaoh’s ministers. The form of storytelling in the Middle East is such that since very ancient times, truths were told in such a fashion as to be hidden within, requiring the hearers to “think” and come to an understanding, searching out spiritual truths.
People outside of these cultures ascribe literal meaning only to these stories, and are thus deprived of the great spiritual message held within them. They go on repeating these stories, writing down these stories, and insisting upon the superficial explanations without ever considering how illogical and unreasonable they are. Fantasy prevails, and reason and logic suffer.
Entire theologies are built around advancing miraculous claims, misunderstanding all the while the true purpose of the coming of the Messiah, which is to lead souls into heavenly understanding, to uplift their characters, and build a divine civilization.
How opposed to reason and logic are those who cling to outward semblances and deny the faculty of the mind given to us by God.
Thus, we are left to submitting to supernatural explanations and their proponents, which require us to betray our own sensibilities. How contrary is this to the ways of the One True God, to bestow the capacity to reason upon us, and then withhold it from us.
We are told things since childhood to appease our imaginations until such time as we can discern with our own eyes the truth of reality, both physical and spiritual.
“Let them who have eyes see, and ears hear.”
