In this episode, SuperLutheran and Myles take a look at the flip-side of the last episode, and we talk about Heaven. Same as last time, we talk about what Heaven is, how the idea was revealed, Heaven’s cosmic geography, and we clear up some misconceptions surrounding it. We hit a handful of emails after the break.
Are Jews the chosen people of God? No: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzHB5Caglgo
Age of Ruin: From the Ashes: https://poa.st/@Godcast/posts/ALVRT05jJfK3me3PtY
The first of what I hope to be many entries in a science fiction universe both by and for /ourguys/.
Things we talked about during the episode:
Heaven: https://infogalactic.com/info/Heaven
What is Heaven like? https://www.gotquestions.org/heaven-like.html
Heaven in the Old Testament: https://www.gotquestions.org/Old-Testament-salvation.html
https://www.christianstudylibrary.org/article/heaven-what-about-old-testament-believers
This episode’s break music was “Higher,” by Creed: https://youtu.be/J16lInLZRms?7G8-2ICQtStkt_Ao
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It would be easy to either dismiss or be skeptical about the tall tales of great reward after you croak, except the story comes from so. many. sources! who had no obvious means of communication!
I was listening to “Animal Farm” the other day.
Remember the Comrade Moses?
Verbatim quote:
“Moses, who was Mr Jones’s especial pet, was a spy
and a tale-bearer, but he was also a clever talker.
He claimed to know of the existence of a mysterious
country called Sugarcandy Mountain, to which all
animals went when they died. It was situated some-
where up in the sky, a little distance beyond the
clouds, Moses said. In Sugarcandy Mountain it was
Sunday seven days a week, clover was in season all
the year round, and lump sugar and linseed cake
grew on the hedges. The animals hated Moses
because he told tales and did not work, but some of
them believed in Sugarcandy Mountain, and the
pigs had to argue very hard to persuade them that
there was no such place.
In the middle of the summer Moses the raven
suddenly reappeared on the farm, after an absence of
several years. He was quite unchanged, still did no
work, and talked in the same strain as ever about
Sugarcandy Mountain. He would perch on a stump,
flap his black wings, and talk by the hour to anyone
who would listen. ‘Up there, comrades,’ he would
say solemnly, pointing to the sky with his large beak
‘up there, just on the other side of that dark cloud
that you can see — there lies Sugarcandy Mountain,
that happy country where we poor animals
shall rest for ever from our labours!’ He even claimed
to have been there on one of his higher flights, and
to have seen the everlasting fields of clover and the
linseed cake and lump sugar growing on the hedges.
Many of the animals believed him. Their lives now,
they reasoned, were hungry and laborious; was it
not right and just that a better world should exist
somewhere else? A thing that was difficult to deter-
mine was the attitude of the pigs towards Moses.
They all declared contemptuously that his stories
about Sugarcandy Mountain were lies, and yet they
allowed him to remain on the farm, not working,
with an allowance of a gill of beer a day. “
Excellent episode as always, though I’m afraid your discussion of the geography Heaven is still quite incomplete: there was no mention of Lubberland, Fiddler’s Green, the Undying Lands, or the Big Rock Candy Mountain.