<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span style="text-align: left; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>"Elysium" </b>(a limerick)</span></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span style="text-align: left; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span style="text-align: left; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Sunday afternoons — guess where I'll be?</span></div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: left; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">Playing cricket 'til well after tea.</div></span><span style="text-align: left; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">"The Elysiums" we're named;</div></span><span style="text-align: left; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">Our team's locally famed.</div></span><span style="text-align: left; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; ">An Elysian fielder, that's me!</div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "><br></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; ">--------------</div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "><br></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; ">"Life After Death" by Ian Hunter</div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; ">From his album "You're Never Alone With a Schizophrenic" (1972)</div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "><br></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; "><a href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/songs/Life_After_Death_Ian_Hunter.mp3">http://www.tomandrodna.com/songs/Life_After_Death_Ian_Hunter.mp3</a></span></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "><br></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; ">--------------------------------------</div></span></span><br><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><a href="http://www.MoscowCares.com">http://www.MoscowCares.com</a></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "> </div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><div>Tom Hansen</div><div>Moscow, Idaho</div><div><br></div></div></div><div><div><br></div></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br>On Sep 9, 2013, at 5:18 PM, "Nielsen, Ralph" <<a href="mailto:nielsen@uidaho.edu">nielsen@uidaho.edu</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><div>
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<div>Thanks for the varied replies. I was testing your biblical literacy, specifically knowledge of the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible. </div>
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<div>In the OT there is no life after death for anybody. If you know of any exceptions I'd like to hear about them.</div>
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<div>Nor is there such a thing as a "soul" that is separate from the body and survives it after death. </div>
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<blockquote type="cite"><font color="#00364a">In the OT there is no such "place" as a hell because hell has not yet been invented. So if post mortem torture excites you, you'll have to retreat to the Christian New Testament. </font></blockquote>
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<div>Satan as a personality appears only twice in the OT and here he is a member of God's heavenly household, not an enemy of God.</div>
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<div>Jesus Christ is not even mentioned in the OT let alone prophesied. </div>
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<div>Please note that I am not presenting these statements as matters of personal belief. They are simply matters of fact about the Old Testament of the Bible that you can check for yourself.</div>
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