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Foolishness of God vs. Men's Wisdom
One of the most impressive passages in the Bible is as follows:
25 Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men. ( Corinthians 1)
Those who are called fools following God's teaching are actually wiser than those who are called wise men in this world. Those who look weak following God's teaching are stronger than those with worldly strength such as physical power and economic power. In other word, those who look foolish and weak from a point of view in this world are in essence wiser and stronger from a point of view in the spirit world than those who are wise and strong in the human world.
According to teaching by our Lord Jesus Christ, everybody goes to the spirit world after death in this world, and money has no power in the spirit world or the afterlife. But those who have lived poor and faithful lives while accumulating wealth in Heaven through their righteous lives and good conducts are paid in the spirit world. So, believers would not seek for opportunities in this world where big money can be earned. But others who know that big money makes them materially happy and strong despise those who do not try to get big money as fools. Yet, those despised as fools in this world know that they would be accepted in Heaven where eternal lives and happiness should be given while rich men should fall into the hells in the spirit world.
Therefore, fools in this world are wise in the afterlife. The weak in this world are stronger in the afterlife.
To understand this truth is what people should learn in the afterlife or the spirit world. So, any religion should teach this lesson. The essence in any religions should be that there is afterlife in the spirit world; money has no power in afterlife in the spirit world; and physical strength is meaningless there.
In this world it is said that money and knowledge are power to make people happy. However, it is love and faith in the God that make people accepted in Heaven in the afterlife or the spirit world. Physical strength is meaningless in the afterlife or the spirit world where no spirits or souls have physical bodies
Indeed, it is said that one can realize anything he wants through thinking or power of imagination in the spirit world. But, love and faith in the God should be obtained and formed while living in the human world. It seems too late to realize after death that love and faith in the God are keys to enter into Heaven. That must be why some people have to be born again in the human world. In this context, this human world may well be called the place for ascetic training.
Indeed, according to a spirit in the afterlife who had been a prince of a samurai clan in a territory around Tokyo some 400 years ago and was invoked in a seance or spiritual communications, she had to continue spiritual training in the after life. As she had been a Japanese woman in the samurai era, she was not helped and guided in the afterlife by Christian spirits but by a great spirit in Japanese shintoism. She said that she was taught to abandon adhesion to the human world.
Therefore, in any religions in this world in any periods, truth in the spirit world or the afterlife is same.
Material happiness or greatness in this world means nothing in the afterlife or the spirit world. Even knowledge and wisdom in the human world turn to nothing in the afterlife or the spirit world. Only the ability to feel and accept the teaching of the God counts.
So, the more you look foolish in terms of commonsense in the human world, the more you have a chance to be accepted in Heaven after death. Be foolish rather than being too cute by half.
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Mark 12, King James Version
20 Now there were seven brethren: and the first took a wife, and dying left no seed.
21 And the second took her, and died, neither left he any seed: and the third likewise.
22 And the seven had her, and left no seed: last of all the woman died also.
23 In the resurrection therefore, when they shall rise, whose wife shall she be of them? for the seven had her to wife.
24 And Jesus answering said unto them, Do ye not therefore err, because ye know not the scriptures, neither the power of God?
25 For when they shall rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage; but are as the angels which are in heaven.
26 And as touching the dead, that they rise: have ye not read in the book of Moses, how in the bush God spake unto him, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?
27 He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living: ye therefore do greatly err.