"Neither do men put new wine into old bottles" - Three Conditions for Followers of Christ Jesus

 

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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.

"Jesus made the clay, and opened his eyes" - Members of Churches or the Vatican are not Necessarily Promised

 

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Members of Churches or the Vatican are not Necessarily Promised

For you to become followers, if not Christians, of Christ Jesus who called Himself the Son of God, you should love the God as much as you can with all of your heart and strength.  

In addition, you have to believe that there is the afterlife.  Next, you have to believe that souls of poor and faithful men are accepted in Heaven, and souls of rich and evil men are to go to the hell.  Finally, you have to fight against Satan like Christ Jesus.  Then, you must be surely called followers of Christ Jesus.

Indeed, Christ Jesus did not tell that He was the God or His authority was based on the Trinity.  Christ Jesus even did not tell that anybody who had different views on the God and Himself from churches or the Vatican should be His enemies. 

You can be followers of Christ Jesus if churches or the Vatican denies or neglects you, since Christ Jesus did not give the authority to certify His followers to churches or the Vatican.  It is not churches or the Vatican that allows you to enter Heaven or condemns you to the hell.  It is the privilege of the God.

Christ Jesus told how to become His followers but not how to become members of churches or the Vatican.  His followers are promised to be admitted into Heaven, but simple members of churches or the Vatican are not promised.    

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John 9, King James Version
13 They brought to the Pharisees him that aforetime was blind.

14 And it was the sabbath day when Jesus made the clay, and opened his eyes.
15 Then again the Pharisees also asked him how he had received his sight. He said unto them, He put clay upon mine eyes, and I washed, and do see.
16 Therefore said some of the Pharisees, This man is not of God, because he keepeth not the sabbath day. Others said, How can a man that is a sinner do such miracles? And there was a division among them.
17 They say unto the blind man again, What sayest thou of him, that he hath opened thine eyes? He said, He is a prophet.

"he said unto them, Give ye them to eat" - Even if Christ Jesus was Truly the God

 

Even if Christ Jesus was Truly the God

Christ Jesus said to love the God with all our heart and strength but never declared that He was the God; yet He stressed that He was the Son of the God and also the son of man.  And, most importantly, Christ Jesus said to His followers not to tell who He was.

Therefore the present Christianity based on the notion that the Christ Jesus is the God cannot be completely accepted, although He might be the God.  Because Christ Jesus did not declare that He was the God, we should not call Him the God, if He might be the God.

Put extremely, if you do not accept and perform any teaching of Christ Jesus but somewhat accept the notion that He is the God, you can be accepted by churches as Christians.  And, if you accept and perform all teachings of Christ Jesus as much as possible but do not completely accept the notion that He is the God, you cannot be admitted by churches as Christians.  There can be Christians who do not satisfactorily accept and perform teachings of Christ Jesus but can be admitted by churches as Christians, if they simply say that they believe that Christ Jesus is the God.

In other words, even if followers of Satan can be accepted by churches as Christians if only because they say that they admit that Christ Jesus is the God.  But, fighters against Satan cannot be accepted by churches as Christians if they do not say that they perfectly admit that Christ Jesus is the God.

Christians should be those who accept and perform all teachings of Christ Jesus as much as possible but not those who say, even in a superficial way, that they believe that Christ Jesus is the God.

However, it should not be forbidden to believe that Christ Jesus is the God, or declare or diffuse the notion that Christ Jesus is the God.  Indeed, to such little and minute entities as the mankind, Christ Jesus is great enough to be called a god or the God.  The God must not blames any body who cannot understand the ideology of the Trinity.

You may be vaguely think that Christ Jesus is a kind of God or as great as the God, if you fight against Satan.  Or, I would venture to say that you should be called Christians if only you fight against Satan.  And, followers of Satan seem to be in churches and even in the Vatican.  They may be pretending to believe or even simply believe that Christ Jesus is the God.  In this case, the Vatican protect such followers of Satan and reject those who accept and perform teachings of Christ Jesus without completely believing that Christ Jesus is the God.

Put simply, Christ Jesus did not say to be Christians officially recognized as such by churches to be established centuries later after His death on the Cross.  But, Christ Jesus said to love the God with all our heart and strength.  It may be a little too arrogant to think that we can identify or define the God as anybody in this world, even if Christ Jesus was truly the God.   

However, present churches and the Vatican are far better than Satan.

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Luke 9, King James Version
12 And when the day began to wear away, then came the twelve, and said unto him, Send the multitude away, that they may go into the towns and country round about, and lodge, and get victuals: for we are here in a desert place.
13 But he said unto them, Give ye them to eat. And they said, We have no more but five loaves and two fishes; except we should go and buy meat for all this people.
14 For they were about five thousand men. And he said to his disciples, Make them sit down by fifties in a company.
15 And they did so, and made them all sit down.
16 Then he took the five loaves and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed them, and brake, and gave to the disciples to set before the multitude.
17 And they did eat, and were all filled: and there was taken up of fragments that remained to them twelve baskets.

"They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick" - The Hidden Principal in the Hell

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The Hidden Principal in the Hell

According to witness of those who had near-death experiences, everybody in the spirit world looked happy or full of love.  However, there are a limited number of witnesses who reported that they had seen the hell in their near-death experiences.

Indeed, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross and Raymond Moody have not assured that there is not only the happy spirit world but also the hell where souls of evil men would go.  Yet, Emanuel Swedenborg, a notable psychic in the 18th century, reported existence of the hell in the afterlife in a detailed manner, which seems to be more trustworthy.

However, almost all who have claimed that they saw the spirit world with angel-like entities or the world of light in their near-death experiences have never confessed that they are sinners or evil men in this world.  They might have all changed to good men or repenting men to be forgiven by the God on their deathbeds.  But as half of men in this world look sinful or evil, there must be a special place in the afterlife where they should go by preference. 

 

According to Swedenborg, all the souls of dead men get into the spirit world and proceed along a road until they encounter a big stone from which the road is divided to the left and the right.  Good souls go along the left road which is straight to Heaven.  But evil souls stumble on the stone to harm themselves but stand up to run along the wide right road to the hell.  Perhaps, evil souls cannot see the stone and should find the wide right road so comfortable.  

Angels and good souls in Heaven can see the hell below, although the hell is covered by some lid, if they allowed to do so.  The hell is in three layers like in the caves in mountains.  The uppermost layer is dark and gloomy.  The next lower one is full of fire.  The lowest one is where evil souls purged from the two upper layers go and hide or are abandoned.

Evil souls in the dark and gloomy layers are those who did evil things while being guided or allured by outside evil.  Evil souls in fire are those who did evil things while being moved by their inherent evil.  They fight, attack, harm, and rob one another.  They roam about like wild animals.  And when they are punished due to their extreme evil nature, they go to subterranean caves or wilderness like the desert.  Especially those who used preeminently shrewd and dirty skilled tricks to do evil would be abandoned there until the last time when they are finally destroyed by the God.   

However, it should be noted that souls of those who are excellent in intellectual power but lack enough love are not highly regraded or appraised.  The most important feature of men consists in love, since love makes a man worthy of the name.  They may also fall into the hell if not so deep.  Even if they are allowed into Heaven, they should be placed under those without much intellectual power but with enough love to the God and others.

Those who had near-death experiences must have only seen the entrance to the spirit world.   But, further into the spirit world, every soul should go to Heaven or the hell, which must be too severe to be revealed to living men in this world.

However, those scholars and pundits as well as those who had near-death experiences do not usually talk much about Satan in the spirit world or the hell.  Yet, Satan as the source of evil and vice should be the hidden principal in the hell, the spirit world, or this world.  We should not neglect it like in the case of the Gospels.     

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Matthew 9, King James Version
10 And it came to pass, as Jesus sat at meat in the house, behold, many publicans and sinners came and sat down with him and his disciples.
11 And when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto his disciples, Why eateth your Master with publicans and sinners?
12 But when Jesus heard that, he said unto them, They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick.
13 But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.