Everybody Dies Someday in this World
If somebody tells you that everybody dies someday in this world, you must not be impressed. But, this is the starting point of the teachings of Christ Jesus.
Death in this world is not the end of your life, but your spirit carries your life to the spirit world leading to Heaven or the hell. And, if your life in your spirit is carried to the hell, it will be completely destroyed there by the God, which is the end of your life where you life perfectly comes to nothing. It is the second and complete death. What is left after your second death is totally nothing.
However, if your life is carried to Heaven with your spirit, it will become eternal life that never dies, so that you do not have to be afraid of the physical death in this material world. Yet, you have to be accepted in Heaven by the God. And, Christ Jesus made clear the conditions for which you will be accepted by the God. In this context, Christ Jesus is the great benefactor to the mankind.
Put simply, you have to be poor in this world, which means that you have never sold completely your spirit to Satan. So, if you are poor, you will be regarded as faithful or righteous, since only faithful or righteous men never sell their souls to Satan.
In other words, you have to sell any part of your spirit to Satan so as to be rich, materially happy, successful, or content. Therefore, being rich, happy, and successful is a one-way ticket to the hell.
Therefore, many rich people deny this teaching of Christ Jesus. Or, sometimes they controlled churches so as to make them not emphasize this teaching: The poor enter into Heaven while the rich fall into the hell.
To clearly understand the teaching of Christ Jesus, you have to admit that there is a spirit in yourself in addition to your body and your mind. And, you have to also believe that there is the spirit world or the afterlife, and furthermore Heaven and the hell. And ultimately, you have to believe that there is the God who is the spirit as Christ Jesus described.
Consequently, if you believe in Christ Jesus and the Bible, you will surely admit near-death experiences; existence of spirits, the spirit world, and the afterlife. And, the Gospels tell that the spirit of Christ Jesus appeared with a material body among believers after death on the cross. It also depicts the situation where spirits came down from Heaven onto believers hiding in a house in Jerusalem. So, without accepting spiritual phenomena as real and true, you cannot understand Christ Jesus and His teachings or the Gospels.
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Matthew 8, King James Version
20 And Jesus saith unto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.
21 And another of his disciples said unto him, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father.
22 But Jesus said unto him, Follow me; and let the dead bury their dead.
23 And when he was entered into a ship, his disciples followed him.
Matthew 8, King James Version
20 And Jesus saith unto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.
21 And another of his disciples said unto him, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father.
22 But Jesus said unto him, Follow me; and let the dead bury their dead.
23 And when he was entered into a ship, his disciples followed him.