Hi Stephanie,

I understand where you are coming from. Yes, it is a matter of belief. The evidence is there that there was preworld Jesus, but one has to believe the evidence. You must be able to "see" with an open mind and heart.

In The New Testament Jesus asks his disciples....
John 3:12 If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you [of] heavenly things?

And the Apostle Paul states in the NT
1Corinthians 2:14 "But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know [them], because they are spiritually discerned."

Many mysteries of the Bible, ancient Egypt, elsewhere also have to be "spiritually discerned", otherwise there's no way for us to understand the messages.

For example:

In E.A . Wallis Budge's "The Egyptian Book of the Dead", (which I have in front of me right now) Budge gives us an explanation that when the Papyrus of Ani was recopied from the much older texts, the later translaters did not understand what they were copying. Much of what was copied was sloppy. Much was left out, and many things were added that were different from the original texts. But enough information made it through correctly.

When Budge and others were finally able to get a satisfactory translation of the words of the Book of Dead, they admitted that much of it was metaphorical. In other words, there were many symbols that stood for something that only someone who lived during those ancient times would understand. How would a translator know what to take literally, and what to understand metaphorically? Budge understood that what he was reading compared remarkably to the texts of the Bible. So he began to read his Bible again to get an understanding.

Much of the Bible is written in metaphor or "figure of speech". If one reads and studies the whole Bible, one begins to understand what is symbolic and what was meant to be takenliterally.

Now, if we read the Book of the Dead (which I believe to be part of the earliest form of the Holy Bible) with these things in mind, you can begin to understand some of the "strange" or "weird" symbols or rituals. If one does not understand the symbols, then I can certainly understand why modern scholars think that the ancient Eygptians were just a "group of pagans". But were they?

So I believe if one understands the Holy Bible, then one can have a proper interpretation of the ancient Pyramid Texts and the Book of the Dead.

Also, one has to believe that the Pyramids Texts, and the Book of the Dead are also an actual historical account as one would the Bible.

But, again, if one doesn't believe these things, then I could show all the proof in the world, and it wouldn't make any difference.


Sincerely,
Kimberly