Do Not Fear Death since There's Life after Death
Christ Jesus said, as a matter of fact, that there are the God, life after death, and Heaven and the hell, though faithful poor people could enter into Heaven but evil rich people should go down to the hell to be reduced to a naught finally.
So, every poor man should be rejoiced while every rich man should be alerted. Therefore, the Gospels recording these words of Christ Jesus must be called Good News for poor and suffering people in this world in any eras in these 2000 years.Although the emphasis of these words is on encouragement and exhortation of doing good and living righteously, it also makes it clear that death in this world is not an end of one's life but one's soul would go on living in the spirit world and eventually enter into Heaven or fall down to the hell.
The assertion that one's soul survives death of one's body in this world is a revolutionary announcement, although some people must have felt so in any culture of any tribe, which led to creation of various myths and religions. But, it was clearly confirmed by Christ Jesus who claimed that He had come from the God. The significance of Christianity should lie in this point: You should die in this world but your soul would continue to live in life after death.
However, if one knows, accepts, and believes in this truth, he does not necessarily come to live according to the words of the God and Christ Jesus. Satan is also an inhabitant in the spirit world. Those brainwashed by Satan should still stick to evil ways of life in this world and the spirit world, and thus there should be many evil spirits or souls in the spirit world like many evil men in this world. Therefore, what is important in this world as well as in the spirit world is faith in the God and Christ Jesus.
Nonetheless, poor people who have been suffering in this world due to poverty, inequality, helplessness, unkindness, negligence, cruelty, attacks from others, etc. should find light in the words of Christ Jesus, since death would relive them from pains in this world and promise salvation in Heaven.
So, the slogan of Christian churches should be: Do Not Fear Death; You Continue to Live in the Spirit World and Finally in Heaven if You Believe!"
Nonetheless, poor people who have been suffering in this world due to poverty, inequality, helplessness, unkindness, negligence, cruelty, attacks from others, etc. should find light in the words of Christ Jesus, since death would relive them from pains in this world and promise salvation in Heaven.
So, the slogan of Christian churches should be: Do Not Fear Death; You Continue to Live in the Spirit World and Finally in Heaven if You Believe!"
However, if everybody understands this truth and comes not to fear death, what will happen in the society? Will suicide increase? Will daredevil criminals increase? Will most of people lose motivation to work hard for money and realize happiness in this world? Maybe other unexpected phenomena occur in the society, causing an unexpected crisis in this world.
In the worst case, everybody loses will of living in this world and tries to die as early as possible, or suicide terrorists might be drastically increased. Or even ordinary people start to rush to suicide, leading to collapse of the society. Indeed, the society must collapse, if everybody thinks that death is a shorter route to happiness. Even Satan will be embarrassed because nobody wants money for which everybody is expected to do evil things following Satan, but everybody wants early death.
To prevent people from loving early death or committing early suicide, this truth that a man lives in the spirit world after death in this world may have to be covered and hidden from ordinary people. So, some leaders might think that it should be obscured. Churches might be stopped, by some leaders, from emphasizing this truth and spreading it in the society. Consequently, this truth is told by priests, clergymen, etc. in a modest, ambiguous, or fairy-tale like way. What churches want people to do is not to believe in life after death but to believe in churches whatsoever they preach. If people realize this truth, they will go to the spirit world leaving churches in this world. In addition, Satan does not want people to realize this truth and lose interest in money and wealth in this world for which they are expected to do evil things following Satan.
From the point of truth itself, it is desirable that every child should be taught in school that he will continue to live in the spirit world if he happens to die in this world. But, if a man does not follow the God and Christ Jesus, he should face the second death or the final death in the spirit world or the hell, since the God can kill both souls and bodies of men in the hell. Only faithful men can live forever in the spirit world or Heaven.
Put simply, faith is more important than death. How to respond to the truth must be decided based on this belief.
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Acts 6, King James Version
8 And Stephen, full of faith and power, did great wonders and miracles among the people.
9 Then there arose certain of the synagogue, which is called the synagogue of the Libertines, and Cyrenians, and Alexandrians, and of them of Cilicia and of Asia, disputing with Stephen.
10 And they were not able to resist the wisdom and the spirit by which he spake.
11 Then they suborned men, which said, We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses, and against God.
12 And they stirred up the people, and the elders, and the scribes, and came upon him, and caught him, and brought him to the council,
13 And set up false witnesses, which said, This man ceaseth not to speak blasphemous words against this holy place, and the law:
14 For we have heard him say, that this Jesus of Nazareth shall destroy this place, and shall change the customs which Moses delivered us.
15 And all that sat in the council, looking stedfastly on him, saw his face as it had been the face of an angel.
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Acts 6, King James Version
8 And Stephen, full of faith and power, did great wonders and miracles among the people.
9 Then there arose certain of the synagogue, which is called the synagogue of the Libertines, and Cyrenians, and Alexandrians, and of them of Cilicia and of Asia, disputing with Stephen.
10 And they were not able to resist the wisdom and the spirit by which he spake.
11 Then they suborned men, which said, We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses, and against God.
12 And they stirred up the people, and the elders, and the scribes, and came upon him, and caught him, and brought him to the council,
13 And set up false witnesses, which said, This man ceaseth not to speak blasphemous words against this holy place, and the law:
14 For we have heard him say, that this Jesus of Nazareth shall destroy this place, and shall change the customs which Moses delivered us.
15 And all that sat in the council, looking stedfastly on him, saw his face as it had been the face of an angel.