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That, my benighted friend, is an artist's interpretation of Vanni Fucci from Dante's "Inferno."
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I don't believe you, needless to say. Nobody can do that, there's no evidence anyone ever has. You've raised the dead? Who was it, and why wasn't it major news?
All the gospels were written several generations after Jesus' death by people who never met him, the authors were most likely just recording an oral tradition that had been embellished many times in the telling and retelling. There are similar stories about others recorded in the first century, Jesus was by no means the only one. Appollonius of Tyana is probably the best known one. Revelation isn't about our future either, it's fairly typical apocalyptic literature--there are other examples in Isaiah and Daniel, and many extra-Biblical examples--written as an exhortation to the faithful in troubled times, to reassure them that their persecutors will fall and all will be well. It's really about the Roman persecution of the early church under the Emperor Domitian, couched in symbols and metaphors that would have been known to its intended audience but not the Roman persecutors. Had to be, it's pretty subversive from the perspective of an occupying imperial power, but it has nothing to do with us or our future. There is no lake of fire for anyone to be thrown into. You're taking a book--actually about 5 dozen books that happen to be between the same covers--of myth and metaphor as literally true and it has led you into the delusions you keep posting here.