Christianity: A Religion of Immortality
Everybody knows that men should die someday in this world. And, everybody also knows that Christ Jesus is the foundation of Christianity. But, everybody does not necessarily link Christ Jesus with the fate of death of everybody.
However, believing in Christ Jesus is tantamount to believing that there is the afterlife and dead men will all enter into the afterlife. It means that the physical body of a man dies someday in this world, but his soul will continue to live with a spiritual body in the spirit world.
So, it is a kind of wonder that people are still afraid of death 2,000 years after the appearance of Christ Jesus. If the teaching of Christ Jesus already prevailed all over the world, the mankind should conquer the fear of death and concentrate on preparation for the new life as spirits in the afterlives or the spirit world.
Even churches do not emphasize the basics of teaching of Christ Jesus: there is surely the afterlife or the spirit world where the soul of everyone goes after physical death in this world. In this context, the first doctrine of Christianity should be that there is life for everyone in the afterlife or the spirit world after his or her physical death in this world.
In everything strange in terms of religion, there can be interference of Satan. So, this negligence or contempt in churches of this underlying presumption in the teaching of Christ Jesus that there is the afterlife or the spirit world might be a result of Satan's plot to harm Jesus' work for salvation of men.
Christ Jesus emphasized that there is Heaven in the afterlife or the spirit world in the context that poor men should be accepted in Heaven after their death in this world. To soil or blur this teaching of Christ Jesus, Satan should act on churches and church leaders so that they will not put priority in their preaching on the fact that there is the afterlife or the spirit world where everyone goes after death so that they should not be afraid of their death. If everybody realized the underlying fact and every poor man believed that he or she would be accepted in Heaven and become happy after death in this world, none would sell his or her soul to Satan to be rich and happy in this world. If all the mankind come not to mind poverty in this world, Satan will be completely defeated.
When not only special holy men, such as martyrs, but also ordinary people come not to fear death in their missions or lives, this world should turn to the Kingdom of God.
Just to be certain, Christ Jesus told that poor men should be accepted, filled, and satisfied to be happy in Heaven on the premise that there is the afterlife or the spirit world after physical death in this world. In this context, Christianity should be a religion of immortality.
Matthew 12, King James Version
28 But if I cast out devils by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God is come unto you.
29 Or else how can one enter into a strong man's house, and spoil his goods, except he first bind the strong man? and then he will spoil his house.
30 He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathereth not with me scattereth abroad.
31 Wherefore I say unto you, All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men: but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men.
32 And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the world to come.
33 Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by his fruit.