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Celsus was either a Greek or a Roman who wrote during the latter half of the 2nd century AD. Very little is known about his origins or life. The work in its original form has been lost and the True Word survives only as excerpts from a work by the Christian scholar Origen
We need to go back to the earliest biblical texts to understand the Jewish concept of salvation. Based on God’s unique relationship with the people of Israel as presented in the Tanach (Old Testament), salvation is almost always understood as collective and national, not personal and individual.
Zeus did that a lot, making children with human-ladies. But he also hated humans in general.
If he wasn't a mortal why did he die?
And isn't it also said that after the one the Jews are waiting for, the almighty will be a known presence to everybody, and it will basically be paradise on Earth?
Olam ha-ba.
Do you live under the impression that's the case?
What's this purpose you're talking about? The Inquisition? The Crusades? The television priests getting filthy rich? Our modern day liberties, everybody #ing everybody and everything? The children starving? The growing inequality between the poor with no rights and freedoms and the rich who can do and control everything?
Don't you agree this world now needs a lot more salvation than ever before?