Let the Pharisees Be Pharisees: Turning from Legalism to the Light of Ahura Mazda
“Why would I ever want to go to Sheol?” There are questions that echo through the corridors of the soul, queries that pierce the veil between the temporal and the eternal, demanding not mere answers but profound reckonings. Why would I ever want to go to Sheol? What soul, in its deepest yearning for meaning and transcendence, sets its compass toward a silent grave—a place of shadow, detachment, and hollow waiting?
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“Why would I ever want to go to Sheol?” There are questions that echo through the corridors of the soul, queries that pierce the veil between the temporal and the eternal, demanding not mere answers but profound reckonings. Why would I ever want to go to Sheol? What soul, in its deepest yearning for meaning and transcendence, sets its compass toward a silent grave—a place of shadow, detachment, and hollow waiting? If that is the promised “afterlife” of strict Yahwism, a realm of lingering gloom where the righteous and wicked alike descend into obscurity, then what magnet draws me there? When Ahura Mazda calls—not to dim subterranean courts, but to Paradise, to light, to renewal—why settle for darkness? So let the Pharisees be Pharisees: consign them to their laws, their rigid statutes, their lifeless rituals.
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Yasna · Avesta · Hebrew Bible · Old Testament