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Can Spiritualism Save the World?
There are many who believe in the afterlife or the spirit world. But, this world has not been improved. Why is not the world improved while so many people believe in the afterlife or the spirit world?The answer is that most of such people still want material happiness in this world even if there is the afterlife or the spirit world. They think that their being materially happy in this world will not hinder their enjoying happiness in the afterlife or the spirit world. In other word. they think that they can be happy in this world and also in the afterlife or the spirit world, while our Lord Jesus Christ declared that the rich could not be accepted in Heaven.
Indeed. convenience, enjoyment, and pleasure the material civilization in this world gives people are so strong. Therefore, people should try to enjoy them as much as possible while they are alive in this world. However, the more people purchase material happiness, the less they pursue spiritual happiness promised in the afterlife or the spirit world. In one case, a successful, rich, and elite man thought that he would see a god in the afterlife who gave him such fortune in this world. But, the god he would meet in the afterlife or the spirit world should be Satan.
In most cases, for a man to be socially successful and rich in this world, he should neglect poor and unlucky neighbors and lose fears to the God. Instead, he should pursue money and revere wealth as a god, while money is another form of Satan. Put simply, rich and elite men finally come to worship Satan as a god. That is why the Lord Jesus Christ said that men should take money or the God. Those who choose money that is another form of Satan over the God should be naturally rejected in Heaven.
So, a religious man who even believes in the existence of the afterlife or the spirit world but chooses money and wealth or convenience, enjoyment, and pleasure in the material civilization over the God at the bottom of his mind should go to the hells after death in this world.
According to Swedenborg and other special spiritual people who have been allowed to see the afterlife or the spirit world while living in this world, only those who really love neighbors and the God are allowed to enter into Heaven regardless of their religions or status in this world. Being altruistic seems to be essential qualification to be admitted into Heaven.
Indeed, compared with spiritual happiness to be given in Heaven, any material happiness in this world should be nothing. If people should realize this truth, none would pursue material happiness by neglecting poor and unlucky neighbors and ignoring the teachings of the God and the Lord Jesus Christ. Yet, most of people are easily brainwashed by Satan, so that they pursue money and wealth to enjoy convenience, enjoyment, and pleasure in the material civilization, even if they believe in the afterlife or the spirit world.
For this reason, the Lord Jesus Christ said that if a repenting rich man came back from a hell to this world and told his families and friends not to pursue material happiness, money, and wealth in this world, it should be meaningless, since his families and friends could not abandon convenience, enjoyment, and pleasure in the material civilization. The desire for enjoying material happiness is so strong.
So, spiritualism alone cannot improve this world. It should be backed up by love to the God and neighbors or the teaching of the Lord Jesus Christ. Otherwise, if the fear for the God became stronger than material desire, this world might be saved with more spiritual people backing away from money that is another form of Satan.
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Mark 6, King James Version
7 And he called unto him the twelve, and began to send them forth by two and two; and gave them power over unclean spirits;
8 And commanded them that they should take nothing for their journey, save a staff only; no scrip, no bread, no money in their purse:
9 But be shod with sandals; and not put on two coats.
10 And he said unto them, In what place soever ye enter into an house, there abide till ye depart from that place.
11 And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear you, when ye depart thence, shake off the dust under your feet for a testimony against them. Verily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of judgment, than for that city.
12 And they went out, and preached that men should repent.
Mark 6, King James Version
7 And he called unto him the twelve, and began to send them forth by two and two; and gave them power over unclean spirits;
8 And commanded them that they should take nothing for their journey, save a staff only; no scrip, no bread, no money in their purse:
9 But be shod with sandals; and not put on two coats.
10 And he said unto them, In what place soever ye enter into an house, there abide till ye depart from that place.
11 And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear you, when ye depart thence, shake off the dust under your feet for a testimony against them. Verily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of judgment, than for that city.
12 And they went out, and preached that men should repent.