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Three Conditions for Followers of Christ Jesus
If you are followers of Christ Jesus, you have to believe, as the basic conditions, that there is the afterlife, which means that your soul will never die although your body dies in this world.
It also means that you have to believe that a man consists of the body and the soul. The mind must be between the body and the soul. Like in the case of Christ Jesus, when the body dies, the mind also dies but the soul is freed from the mind to enter into the spirit world as a spirit.
Some spirits can come back to this world and appear with a kind of body (spiritual figure) in front of others like the case of Christ Jesus three days after the death of His body. So, it is no wonder that Elizabeth Kubler-Ross (1926-2004), a notable scholar on study of near-death experiences, dying, and death, saw a spiritual figure of a woman who had died 10 months before as her patient but came back to tell Kubler-Ross to continue her study on people dying.
It is matched with what Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772) wrote, since he started to see the spirit world, Heaven and the hell after he had encountered a spiritual figure like the spirit of Christ Jesus in a restaurant in London.
However, to be a follower of Christ Jesus, you have to believe that souls of poor men can be accepted and welcomed in Heaven but souls of rich men are to go the hell. Poor men are regarded as faithful but rich men are regraded as evil. Indeed, if you are faithful, you cannot let your poor neighbors live and die as being poorer than you, or you cannot make any dirty tricks to be any richer.
But, what is more important to be a follower of Christ Jesus is to fight against Satan without selling any part of your soul. The major theme of the Gospels is this fight of Christ Jesus against Satan. Christ Jesus on the cross symbolizes that He had never sold any part of His soul up to His death on the cross as a truly peace-loving man with belief in glory in Heaven.
A follower of Christ Jesus with knowledge of his soul's survival through his physical death to the spirit world and finally Heaven should not try to be rich in this world by obtaining money and wealth in exchange of his selling soul to Satan. Such a follower must be poor but know that he will receive a reward for his righteous life in Heaven as Christ Jesus told. And, he should fight against Satan as Christ Jesus did, which is the final condition to be called a follower of Christ Jesus.
Christ Jesus fought Satan until His death on the cross. Satan used Jewish priests of the Temple in Jerusalem and Roman troops to crucify Jesus Christ. Satan knew that Christ Jesus had power as the Son of the God, so that Satan wanted Christ Jesus to get angry with those Jewish priests and Roman soldiers, curse and destroy them. However, Christ Jesus did not take revenge on them, though He could immediately do so, since He had come to this world to love people including those who sold their souls to Satan.
Indeed, no matter how much Christ Jesus knew about the afterlife or the spirit world, he might have got angry with those people who were killing Him as Satan wished. But in the case, Satan should have been happy to see the Son of the God attacking human beings, although such human beings deserved such attack by Christ Jesus. Christ Jesus showed His utmost love to human beings by not getting angry and punishing those human beings killing Him.Satan was defeated by Jesus Christ's love on the cross to human beings, including those who had sold their souls to Satan and tried to kill Him. Nonetheless, we should think that the God destroyed them all in the hell like in the case of the parable about the land lord whose son was killed by bad and greedy framers.
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Matthew 9, King James Version
17 Neither do men put new wine into old bottles: else the bottles break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish: but they put new wine into new bottles, and both are preserved.
18 While he spake these things unto them, behold, there came a certain ruler, and worshipped him, saying, My daughter is even now dead: but come and lay thy hand upon her, and she shall live.
19 And Jesus arose, and followed him, and so did his disciples.
20 And, behold, a woman, which was diseased with an issue of blood twelve years, came behind him, and touched the hem of his garment:
21 For she said within herself, If I may but touch his garment, I shall be whole.
22 But Jesus turned him about, and when he saw her, he said, Daughter, be of good comfort; thy faith hath made thee whole. And the woman was made whole from that hour.
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Matthew 9, King James Version
17 Neither do men put new wine into old bottles: else the bottles break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish: but they put new wine into new bottles, and both are preserved.
18 While he spake these things unto them, behold, there came a certain ruler, and worshipped him, saying, My daughter is even now dead: but come and lay thy hand upon her, and she shall live.
19 And Jesus arose, and followed him, and so did his disciples.
20 And, behold, a woman, which was diseased with an issue of blood twelve years, came behind him, and touched the hem of his garment:
21 For she said within herself, If I may but touch his garment, I shall be whole.
22 But Jesus turned him about, and when he saw her, he said, Daughter, be of good comfort; thy faith hath made thee whole. And the woman was made whole from that hour.