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Believe and Die to Enter into Heaven
When a man dies, his soul leaves his body to enter into the afterworld or the spirit world and obtains eternal life if he believes in Christ Jesus. This is what was preached by Christ Jesus as written in the Gospels.
John 11This truth must be taught in every elementary school in the world, so that everybody will not be afraid of death.
25 Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:
26 And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?
Indeed, according to Elizabeth Kubler-Ross who studied people's dying or death for decades till her death in 2004, there are only few people who did not at all believe in any form of the afterlife among thousands whose death she had observed. Put simply, most of people believe in the afterlife or something like that. But, most of Christians seem to have some kind of fear or insecure feeling toward death despite influence of Christianity. Rather, non-Christian Asians seem to die in a more smooth way due to their religions such as Buddhism.
For example, some schools of Japanese Buddhism focus on dying of people, so that they teach that people can enter into Paradise if only they they chant names of Buddhism deities or simple phrases in creeds when they are dying. Tibetan Buddhism has The Tibetan Book of the Dead where the method and process to send a dying man to Paradise is described.
Swedenborg, who observed the afterworld while living in this world in the 18th century, wrote that there were confusions in Christians who died and came to the spirit world. They could not easily adapt to the afterworld. And, it was because the Vatican and other Christian churches did not teach right and correct things about death and the afterlife. He even wrote that some past Popes, Martin Luther, St. Paul, etc. were found in the hell. He did not see even David in Heaven. It seems that poor men without learning who simply followed the teaching of the God while living in this world are accepted in Heaven.
The Vatican and Christian churches should teach people simply that they can enter into Heaven after their death if only they believe in Christ Jesus. Other matters should be secondary. They should not discuss about the Trinity and other theological issues. They should teach just that people can enter into Heaven after their death if only they believe in Christ Jesus. It is not a fairy tale but truth.
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John 10, King James Version
17 Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again.
18 No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.
19 There was a division therefore again among the Jews for these sayings.
20 And many of them said, He hath a devil, and is mad; why hear ye him?
21 Others said, These are not the words of him that hath a devil. Can a devil open the eyes of the blind?
22 And it was at Jerusalem the feast of the dedication, and it was winter.
John 10, King James Version
17 Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again.
18 No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.
19 There was a division therefore again among the Jews for these sayings.
20 And many of them said, He hath a devil, and is mad; why hear ye him?
21 Others said, These are not the words of him that hath a devil. Can a devil open the eyes of the blind?
22 And it was at Jerusalem the feast of the dedication, and it was winter.