Local mythology/tradition, as I use it, is just that; local.
If you are a Viking, it is indisputable fact about Valhalla!
If a Cretan, Odin is surely God's Name!
Applying Occam's Razor to scripture, any scripture, is the trimming the 'local truths' from the Universal Truth.
What is the Universal Truth of all scripture (in Biblical terms)?
Get this! You can fit it on a pen barrel!
Just three quotes says it all, and it's all about Salvation!
1) "Heaven is at hand!" - Jesus Here! Now!
If you aren't in Heaven Here! Now!, why not?
2) "I and the Father are One!" - Jesus
3) " As I Am, so can you Be!" - Jesus
Anyone can be 'Saved'! (Despite 'local tradition');
"Born again" into the state of Unconditional Love = Salvation = Enlightenment = Heaven = Immortality
"Heaven is at hand!" - bible
Here! Now!
Anything else is Hell!
True, Unconditional Love is ALWAYS Known by It's Unconditional Virtues;
Compassion, Empathy, Sympathy, Gratitude, Humility, Charity (Charity is never taking more than your share of anything, ever!), Honesty, Happiness, Faith...
ALWAYS!
“Your task is not to seek for Love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” - Rumi
Applying Occam's Razor to the Bible.
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