The Evolution Of A Renegade - David Sloan Wilson
The Joe Walker Podcast
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The Evolution of Christianity and the Afterlife
In the Hebrew Bible, death is mentioned about a thousand times. In most of these instances, people just die. They don't go to any afterlife at all. So when does the concept of the afterlife associated with Christianity? When does it appear in the Hebrew Bible? Not until the book of Daniel, which we know is the last book added to the Hebrew Bible. That was the original origination of theconcept of the afterlife. After that, it morphed and has morphed many, many times. It can clearly be understood as a mechanism that created solidarity in between group competition.
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