where do you think the ancient egyptions went? They all believed in their gods as hard as you guys do and eternal paradise or the other option; cease to exist.
2007-03-27 17:40:22 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
NO WHERE DO YOU THINK THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS GO WHEN THEY DIED
2007-03-27 17:46:57 · update #1
**went*****
2007-03-27 17:47:48 · update #2
They had the wrong ones
There is only one
2007-03-27 17:46:08 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
I'm guessing the ancient Egyptians are living vicariously through their descendants. Besides, Moses help change their ideas about religion. The belief of one true god was then reinterated by Muslim invaders.
Seriously, if the question was stating that the fall of the great Egyptian Empire was because of religion. And basing that assumption to believe Chrisitans will fall because of religion. The question is invalid, because the Empire did not fall because of religion. It fell because the empire was not very strong in the first place and overran by outside cutltures with better technologies.
Or, where did the Egyptians go when they died? The rich in tombs and the rest were buried. Where does the soul go when someone dies? Who knows? Aren't we still fighting wars because of this questions? The Egyptian society was highly materalistic. The believed the went to an afterlife and could take possessions with them.
2007-03-28 00:57:17 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The egyptians, supposedly, got into osiris' big boat and were taken to the stars. They worked real hard, in the black arts, trying to re capture 'immortality' that was lost in 'paradise lost' (pun intended, garden/eden). I think the pyramids were also 'fall out' shelters, in case there was another flood. For a few...the rest could drown!!!!
By the way, the persians mathematical discoveries were far superior to the egyptians....What egypt is: to paraphrase an Oxford history professor, is: a land with huge tombstones dotting the countryside.
2007-03-28 11:04:20 · answer #3 · answered by Bill S 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They were conquered by the Romans. Ancient egyptians had better ideas about metaphysics than christians (discovering the essentiality and conductivity of the triangle and pyramid in regards to health), having come up with elaborate maths and ideas still ahead of this time. I don't quite understand how its "christians vs. ancient egyptians" though. The christians were violent [i.e. the crusades] and militant, france and russia even making the head of the government also the head of the church, if that's any consilation.
2007-03-28 01:07:24 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
How do you know that their afterlife does not exist?
Maybe it hasn't arrived yet because grave robbers and archaeologists stole the mummies and stuck them in museums without all their essential items that they stocked up on for the afterlife. Maybe it was just all symbolic and they ended up in an afterlife which was actually in 'another world' and all the reasons they had for mummification and other burial practices was not meant to be literal. Maybe the ancient Egyptians were 'right' and everyone else is wrong.
2007-03-28 00:52:23 · answer #5 · answered by Pico 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They had pretty cool artwork. How could anything be loving and send artists like that anywhere bad? :-)
Seriously, I don't think they can comprehend how devout, loving, loyal followers of other religions are. If there was a book that told the story of some god or goddess killing the firstborn of the early Hebrews, they would call them evil. But, the story is the other way around, yet they still consider the victims to be the evil ones!
2007-03-28 00:46:44 · answer #6 · answered by strpenta 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They went to Islam or Christianity, some remained in ancient Egyptian religons there are still small sects of it around.
Try researching your question next time.
Oh, They went to eternal paradise (ie heaven)
2007-03-28 00:46:06 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
i think it has to do with the fact that mythological gods represented earthly forces of nature and over time science disproved those gods. as for christianity, some day in the future im guessing that science will do the same for their "god"
*Edit* where did they go when they died? Same place everyone else went. We just don't know because heaven and hell, nor god, have been proven yet.
2007-03-28 00:46:05 · answer #8 · answered by Dave 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The Egyptians are still there. Egypt has changed, but has never been uninhabited.
2007-03-28 00:45:28 · answer #9 · answered by great gig in the sky 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well I know there are a few Egyptian mid wives and probably a ton of them that believed on God after the plagues and so on, but for those of them that didn't trust in Yaway they are with all the other unregenerate sons and daughters of Adam dead in their sins. (Hell!) Sorry, if this bothers you you should get to spreading the Gospel to those who are yet alive.
2007-03-28 00:51:37 · answer #10 · answered by sean e 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Where do all the old gods go? I tend to picture a sort of seniors center for them.
You know, they get to sit around in deck chairs playing rummy in the Elysian Fields Old God's Home.
2007-03-28 00:47:06 · answer #11 · answered by U-98 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋