The Jesus bed connection.

Think and remember. Before the word sleep became part of our vocabulary, the word dead was used, meaning not conscious. The word dead covered all the conditions for being found not conscious. People 2000 years ago, not yet having the word sleep, would have described what the carpenter Jesus was doing as raising the dead. With hindsight, through the study of history, we can now see and understand that Jesus was raising the sleeping, by giving them beds. The manger, praying before going to bed, and the spread of furniture with Christianity, all points to Jesus being responsible mass utilization of the bed, in the same way Henry Ford is famous for the automobile. Jesus was not first with the invention of the bed, but he was first to realize everyone needs to sleep up off the ground. In this way, Jesus gave us life more abundant, much more healthier.

Not conscious. The meaning of deceased is that you do not wake back up. Many times people are thought to be deceased, but to have them conscious again in the story,or life, means they were miss-diagnosed. A good eye, someone alert to the signs of life can show that the person was miss-diagnosed, but that hurts the reputation of the person who signed the death certificate. Although less frequent today, this still happens. Jesus got into trouble mainly because of the politics of maintaining reputations. This is why people used to have a "wake", because we are so prone to errors, even our health professionals.

What I have found, is that if you were to do historical research on the bed, and how we came to be using it, the accountings recorded in the New Testament then begin to make some sense, and can be found to be very helpful/useful in your quest for understanding. I'm talking history not religion.

The word dead was, and is, used to mean many different things. Radio went dead, batteries dead, wake the dead, etc. I think the word dead is used to mean many different things as found in the New Testament. From my studies of the Gospels, I can see the reasoning behind describing what the teacher/physician Jesus was doing as "raising the dead". Jesus would raise the intellect through teaching, raise the sick by getting them off the ground and into a raised bed where their energies could be utilized in healing rather than heating the ground, and when he quoted scripture the dead were raised. So I have no problem with people telling me Jesus raise the dead. But indications are that people that subscribe to, or go along with, the idea of Jesus raising the deceased, could be causing mankind's biggest problems.

The definition of the word deceased precludes its use in such a manner. The rules of language have made that not possible. It just shows people aren't thinking. The word deceased can only properly/correctly be used to describe a body's condition when consciousness is not possible again. If a person, is described by another, or others, as deceased, and then later that person is conscious again, the description had to have been an error. By definition, deceased people cannot be found conscious, as before. This is a rule some people seem to have problems excepting. The closest you can get is to raise people who were misdiagnosed as deceased. And the stories indicate Jesus was doing that also.

Mankind's record as to the importance of its usage, and how many have come to be using beds, (and other furniture), is being obscured by the religious notion that the rules do not apply to them, and their group. It's pure politics, at its worst. What they say and do doesn't really make sense, logically and rationally, and that doesn't seem to matter. It's another example of might thinking it can be right even though it's not observing the rules. The Bible is history, and religion has taken it hostage, through the use of politics.

Alan
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