The main thing I've seen over and over here are non believers trying to paint it (incompatible with the text of various scripture like the common bible) that people dying in this mortal body are dying final or irreversible death.
If that were so, it would of course then make any 'god' able to prevent such death out to be merely a murderer.
But that painting or assumption there is no afterlife contradicts the text of the common bible, and many other religious texts.
So, they begin with a contradictory premise, and then assert the obvious implication of the false premise, over and over.
Analogy:
It's like someone saying about a skilled surgeon with a reported, written track record of having saved a lot of patients in many feats of skilled work --
"Why did that evil doctor let so many die?"
-- it's about that level of distortion.
When many of the OT stories about killing 70,000 in a plague and destroying entire cities, women and children were written there was no afterlife yet.
"The
Torah, the most important Jewish text, has no clear reference to afterlife at all. It would seem that the dead go down to Sheol, a kind of Hades, where they live an ethereal, shadowy existence (
Num. 16:33;
Ps. 6:6;
Isa. 38:18)."
Afterlife in Judaism
Concepts of an immortal soul that belongs in heaven and the concept of heaven itself came to Judaism during the Persian and Greek invasion and are known to have likely been taken from those cultures. So when the myths were written death was not how religious view it now with a revisionist history. The myths about souls and heaven came later.
So you are complaining about "non-believers" making assumptions about no afterlife yet when the text about killing other societies was written the high priests also did not assume their was any sort of afterlife?
The borrowed myths were taken while being occupied by the original cultures? Could this be more obvious myth?
"During the period of the
Second Temple (c. 515 BC – 70 AD), the Hebrew people lived under the rule of first the Persian
Achaemenid Empire, then the Greek kingdoms of the
Diadochi, and finally the
Roman Empire. Their culture was profoundly influenced by those of the peoples who ruled them.Consequently, their views on existence after death were profoundly shaped by the ideas of the Persians, Greeks, and Romans. The idea of the
immortality of the soul is derived from Greek philosophy and the idea of the
resurrection of the dead is derived from Persian cosmology. By the early first century AD, these two seemingly incompatible ideas were often conflated by Hebrew thinkers. The Hebrews also inherited from the Persians, Greeks, and Romans the idea that the human soul originates in the divine realm and seeks to return there.The idea that a human soul belongs in Heaven and that Earth is merely a temporary abode in which the soul is tested to prove its worthiness became increasingly popular during the
Hellenistic period (323 – 31 BC). Gradually, some Hebrews began to adopt the idea of Heaven as the eternal home of the righteous dead.
"
Heaven - Wikipedia
