Talking about life after death: It is not rational to believe something you can't either see or prove.
Plenty of people delude themselves about eternity. All we are told is that Adam died.
We don't know if he died and went to heaven.
It seems putting him on earth in the first place was pretty pointless if he ended up in heaven. I refuse to believe he ended up in hell. Nowhere does any scripture say he did and it rather abuses the personality of the creator to think he plans evil like that.
The original scripture OP'ed is very unusual and it is only possible to understand it with faith or to dismiss it entirely. Prior to Jesus' death he is alleged to have brought Lazarus to life. If you can believe that, you can believe the rest as literal or you can suppose he was talking about the disposal of bodies disinterred by a quake.
So why bother ripping the curtain?
Only the people who killed Jesus would get to find out about that?
Did some priests repent and whistle-blow or was there a freedom of information act in those days?
Some religions believe in an afterlife. Where do they draw what lines?
Are there rats and mice in heaven how do you know what animals god likes, go where?
Adam represents the conscious mind in all of mankind.
It impregnates the subconscious mind with seeds of knowledge based upon what someone is dwelling on.
Woman being separated from man is the subconscious mind being separated from the conscious mind.
Earth refers to the brain.
An earthquake is the brain quaking... an altering/transforming of the conscious mind. I like to call an earthquake representing positive neurological plasticity.
When the mind is fractured and separated, suffering(hell) follows.
When a mind is joined, the conscious and subconscious mind work as one in harmony and peace/joy/bliss (heaven) follows.
Bringing Lazarus back to life is bringing a human in rumination back to a fulfilled/content peaceful life. The Christ resurrecting within them.
It's not a HIS-story book or literal in any way, it's a story about the human being and their mind and body and what goes on within them.
