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Eternal Life is the Most Valuable Thing
Eternal life is the most valuable thing that men can obtain. Even if his life in this world can be extended one more year, a rich and old man with a severe illness would pay one million dollar or more to a medical doctor, a man with super-natural power, a saint, etc. in charge.
But what is the eternal life?
46 Not that any man hath seen the Father, save he which is of God, he hath seen the Father.
47 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life.
48 I am that bread of life. (John 6)
17 These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee:
2 As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him.
3 And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. (John 17)
Eternal life belongs to the God. And, the God gave Christ Jesus the power to give eternal life to men. And, eternal life means to know the God and Christ Jesus or it is given to a man when he sees the God and Christ Jesus. But, Christ Jesus said that any man who believes in Him should be given eternal life. This is one of core creeds of Christianity.
In addition, Swedenborg, an 18th century psychic, wrote that everybody's soul has eternal life since it had come from the God who had eternal life. In deed, every report of men who had near-death experience showed that every soul could enter into the spirit world after death in this world. So, it seems that everyone has eternal life in his soul that can live forever in the spirit world or the afterlife regardless of whether or not he believes in the God or Christ Jesus.
However, Swedenborg wrote that every soul that entered into the spirit world was requested there to enhance itself to ascend to upper levels closer to the God; evil spirits of evil men could also enter into the spirit world but they gathered themselves in places as far as the God to avoid the light of love and goodness emitted from the God, which was called the hells.
Nonetheless, the God has the power to destroy Satan and those in the hells as Matthew 10 reads:
28 And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.Put simple, if we believe in the God and Christ Jesus, we would not be put into the hells, so that we should not be destroyed by the God, obtaining or securing eternal life of our souls.
So then, what should we do to prove that we believe in the God and Christ Jesus? By reading the Gospels straightforwardly, we have to conclude that we have to be poor as much as possible to prove our belief in the God and Christ Jesus.
Therefore, we have to say that only poor men can acquire eternal life in Heaven while rich men go to the hell to be destroyed by the God.
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Matthew 11, King James Version
9 But what went ye out for to see? A prophet? yea, I say unto you, and more than a prophet.
10 For this is he, of whom it is written, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee.
11 Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist: notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.
12 And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.
13 For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John.
14 And if ye will receive it, this is Elias, which was for to come.
15 He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.