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The most interesting secular theory I've heard on the subject is this:

Indirectly, we all come from the Earth. As time passes, your mother and father take the Earth into themselves by eating, absorbing the Earth. Then, after time passes, a baby comes into this world, from the Earth, but with your parents as the "middlemen", so to speak.

When you die, you get buried, cremated, whatever, but you do not disappear. Your consciousness ceases, but your body, nutrient ripe as it is, is absorbed back into the Earth, to continue to fertilize the land, sprouting food or feeding livestock, whatever the case...

It's one of the most farfetched theories I've heard, but oddly enough, I find it more believable and natural than stories about a spooky man in the sky with an attention whore complex.

Regarding the Bible in that respect... I won't rattle on about proof, after all, I agree, a little faith is good if you need it or if your life is lacking otherwise, more power to you. But doesn't anyone else find it quite odd that with all the AMAZING SUPERHERO TYPE STUFF that happened in the past, according to the Bible (rivers turning into blood, fire from the sky, etc.) that we don't see any of that shit nowadays? Or that, in the last documented 500 or 1,000 years, not one bush has SPONTANEOUSLY COMBUSTED?

Food for thought. But I'm still curious as to why God suddenly decided to give up around the turn of the first millenium. And moreover, why God suddenly had a massive change of heart between the OT and the NT. Did God create Prozac at that point?