"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.

"Elias with Moses: and they were talking with Jesus" - Praying, Spiritual Power, and the God's Interference

 

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Praying, Spiritual Power, and the God's Interference 

It is well known that Christ Jesus had power of healing.  And when He sent his disciples to the world, He gave this power to them.

If you believe in the Bible, you should also believe that Christ Jesus had the power of healing.  The modern medical science should focus on this issue.  What is the power specifically?

Some people who encountered a near-death-experience are said to have obtained this power.  For example, such a man concentrate his mind to wish in his heart that a sick man would be healed.  Then he feels a kind of power flowing into the body of the sick man through him from the universe.  He can be sure that the sick man will be healed.  In other words, they do not use special medicine or medical equipment but only their minds or spirits. 

So, what did Christ Jesus give to His disciples when He sent them to heal the sick?  It must be spiritual power of the kind acquired by those who encountered a near-death-experience.

It is also said that even if a man becomes fatally ill but others pray in their minds for his recovery, his conditions will be improved and his life will be saved.  The state of praying must invoke spiritual power to heal others.  Indeed, Christ Jesus encouraged people to pray so that they could receive mercy and blessing from the God.  In other words, as praying invokes spiritual power, a man can communicate with the God who is also the Spirit according to Christ Jesus.  

However, some men claim that they cannot trust in the God, since when they were suffering in pain and praying to the God for help, the God kept silent.  In this case, we should think that his suffering is part of a large plan, so that he can be only spiritually saved when he understands the truth at the big picture as planned by the God.  Any way, at worst, even if he dies, he will surely live in the spirit world or Heaven.  However, if he has strong spiritual power to join the God's plan, his prayer must be heard by the God.      

In this context, the God's plan to allow for the crucifixion of Christ Jesus must have been so great that even Christ Jesus had to die on the cross while He must have been praying to the God for his salvation from the crucifixion.  However, we should remember that Christ Jesus was revived to live in the spirit world after the death on the cross.  And, mostly due to His death on the cross, Christianity was generated and has survived these 2000 years, saving more than billions of people in this world.

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Mark 9, King James Version
2 And after six days Jesus taketh with him Peter, and James, and John, and leadeth them up into an high mountain apart by themselves: and he was transfigured before them.
3 And his raiment became shining, exceeding white as snow; so as no fuller on earth can white them.
4 And there appeared unto them Elias with Moses: and they were talking with Jesus.
5 And Peter answered and said to Jesus, Master, it is good for us to be here: and let us make three tabernacles; one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias.
6 For he wist not what to say; for they were sore afraid.
7 And there was a cloud that overshadowed them: and a voice came out of the cloud, saying, This is my beloved Son: hear him.

"whatsoever house ye enter into, there abide, and thence depart" - Why the God Wants our Love

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Why the God Wants our Love

If you don't believe that there is an afterlife and the spirit world where your spirit will go after death in this world, you should naturally think that you have to be rich and happy as much as possible while living in this world.

But almost all of those who have encountered a near-death-experience believe that there is an afterlife and the spirit world, so that they will come to less stick to worldly matters.

Most people who do not believe in the afterlife and the spirit world think that the reason for their living in this world is to become rich and happy as much as possible.  However, those who believe in the afterlife and the spirit world think that the reason for their living in this world is to make their spirits grow and advance as much as possible.

Satan wants people to want to be rich and happy as much as possible, since they will try to be rich and happy even by selling their souls to Satan so as to get help and support from Satan who can give them money and make them success in this world as it tempted Christ Jesus.  And when people sell their souls to Satan, they will follow Satan and go against the teaching of the God and Christ Jesus.

Even to those who want to spiritually grow and advance and avoid getting rich, Satan would send devils disguised as angels so as to confuse and lead them to wrong directions.  Indeed, the Gospels give a warning to be alert for false Jesus or saints. 

So, it is far better to make one's spirit grow and advance than to try to be materially rich and happy while living in this world even if such life is not perfectly free from Satan.  But for what purpose are people living ultimately?  Some pious people might answer that a man is living to make others happy.

Put simply, the answer is in the Gospels: Christ Jesus said to love the God as much as possible and our neighbors like we loved ourselves.  Therefore, the purpose and the ultimate goal of our life is to love the God as much as possible and our neighbors as loving ourselves. 

However, there are two important issues: why the God created men for such purpose and how we can love our neighbors who have sold their souls to Satan.

Anyway, to try to make our spirits grow and advance must be one way to show our love to the God.  If our spirits are fully enlightened, we should be able to understand why the God wants our love (for this reason, Christ Jesus told to love the God as much as possible), for which the God created men.   

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Luke 9, King James Version
9 Then he called his twelve disciples together, and gave them power and authority over all devils, and to cure diseases.
2 And he sent them to preach the kingdom of God, and to heal the sick.
3 And he said unto them, Take nothing for your journey, neither staves, nor scrip, neither bread, neither money; neither have two coats apiece.
4 And whatsoever house ye enter into, there abide, and thence depart.
5 And whosoever will not receive you, when ye go out of that city, shake off the very dust from your feet for a testimony against them.
6 And they departed, and went through the towns, preaching the gospel, and healing every where.

"Son, be of good cheer; thy sins be forgiven thee" - Holy Men's Autobiographies Should Include the States of the Fight against Satan

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Holy Men's Autobiographies Should Include the States of the Fight against Satan

Ignatius of Loyola (1491 – 1556), a Spanish Basque Catholic priest and theologian, who together with Peter Faber and Francis Xavier founded the religious order called the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) and became its first Superior General at Paris in 1541 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignatius_of_Loyola#Bibliography), wrote about his spiritual experiences in his autobiography.

In the book, he mentioned Satan and its temptation.  Ignatius found that Satan's temptation came in the form of worshipfulness, providing spiritual consolation and illumination to him.  He also saw many eyes in a beautiful figure who was Satan.  

It was 1500 years after the crucifixion of Christ Jesus that Ignatius lived.  The religion Christianity had developed in various aspects and domains in its contents, generating various theories and interpretations of theology.  Along with this development, Satan's strategies against the God and Christ Jesus also advanced to deeper levels and multifaceted directions.  Satan took more complicated tactics than those used against Christ Jesus in the wilderness.  There must have been many influences of Satan even in the Vatican by the era of Ignatius.

So, you should not simply trust in outwardly pious priests or preachers.  You should also remember that Satan has more than two eyes, so that it can see you from different dimensions or angles.  Indeed, if Satan disguised as a faithful man and took access to you with a harmful intention when and where you did not expect it, you would be helpless against the attack unless the God sent angels to you to protect you.

Especially, Satan will use someone you love as its tool to attack you.  Satan will brainwash people around you to make them believe that they are doing a right thing or executing justice when they are attacking you.  Christ Jesus said that angels would come from the God to you when and where you did not expect.  Likewise, Satan can attack you beyond your expectation.    

As Ignatius' autobiography includes his state of the fight against Satan, he can be really trusted, sine the Gospels include the fight of Crist Jesus against Satan from the wilderness to Jerusalem.    

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Matthew 9, King James Version
9 And he entered into a ship, and passed over, and came into his own city.
2 And, behold, they brought to him a man sick of the palsy, lying on a bed: and Jesus seeing their faith said unto the sick of the palsy; Son, be of good cheer; thy sins be forgiven thee.
3 And, behold, certain of the scribes said within themselves, This man blasphemeth.
4 And Jesus knowing their thoughts said, Wherefore think ye evil in your hearts?
5 For whether is easier, to say, Thy sins be forgiven thee; or to say, Arise, and walk?
6 But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins, (then saith he to the sick of the palsy,) Arise, take up thy bed, and go unto thine house.
7 And he arose, and departed to his house.

"as Jesus passed by, he saw a man" - Battles between Christ Jesus and Satan even in the Spirit World

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Battles between Christ Jesus and Satan even in the Spirit World

According to the Bible (Act 1), Christ Jesus declared that power would come upon His followers after they receive the Holy Ghost:

8 But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.

 As a result, Christianity has survived 2,000 years after the crucifixion of Christ Jesus.  It must not be possible without power from Heaven.

One example is the case of Ignatius of Loyola (1491 – 1556), a Spanish Basque Catholic priest and theologian, who together with Peter Faber and Francis Xavier founded the religious order called the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) and became its first Superior General at Paris in 1541 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignatius_of_Loyola).

Ignatius wrote that he had experienced near-death-experiences more than three times and he had grown spiritually each time.  This spiritual growth after a near-death-experience has been told by many who had this experience even today.  

But, Ignatius got power to understand almost everything when he was walking along a river in deep religious thought about spiritual matters, faith, and academic matters and sat on the bank below which water flowed.  He felt that his intellectual power was illuminated.  Then, he prayed to the God at a cross standing nearby.  And, he saw a certain spiritual beautiful body before him that he had seen before many times.  But, now he could clearly see that this beautiful body came from Satan.  So, he drove it out by wielding a stick.

This episode tells that you need power to clearly see Satan and fight against it.  And, for this purpose, Christ Jesus should send spiritual power from Heaven.  This power is not given through near-death-experiences that might enhance some spiritual power of those who had such an experience.  It is thought that St. Paul also got it while he was traveling to Damascus.  You cannot tell when Christ Jesus sent such power to those He selected. 

The most important thing is that the fight against Satan is the central issue for everybody.  Put extremely, Christ Jesus came to this world to fight against Satan.  Indeed, every evil in this world comes from Satan.  To save the mankind means to fight against Satan and defeat it.  As Christ Jesus defeated Satan, He can save the mankind.  And, Christ Jesus has given power to defeat Satan to his followers in these 2000 years, one example of which is the case of Ignatius of Loyola.

Near-death-experiences give some healing power and other various spiritual power to those who have survived such experiences, but the power to defeat Satan should be given by Christ Jesus without such experiences.  Indeed, Satan uses evil spirits to give some spiritual power to those who have sold their souls to Satan.  But, Christ Jesus gives power to defeat Satan to faithful men.  The battles between Christ Jesus and Satan must continue even in the spirit world.    

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John 9, King James Version
9 And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth.
2 And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?
3 Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.
4 I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.
5 As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.

"till they have seen the kingdom of God come with power" - The Fight against Satan through Access to the Afterlife or the Spirit World

 

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The Fight against Satan through Access to the Afterlife or the Spirit World

Over the change of centuries, it seems that the mankind have come to strengthen the concern about the afterlife or the spirit world.

It started with Raymond Moody (1944-) with his book "Life after Life" focusing on near-death experiences and Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (1926 – 2004) with her various books on death and dying.  Both have experienced spiritual phenomena.

Although, the the afterlife and the spirit world are assured in the Gospels and the words of Christ Jesus, in this modern era where people do not much think of Christ Jesus, His words and the teachings of the Bible, their works have made people think of spiritual matters anew.

Raymond Moody came to believe in the existence of the afterlife through checking results of his collection of near-death experiences from hundreds of people who fell in fatal diseases or met fatal accidents.  Elisabeth Kübler-Ross took care of more than 1,000 dying patients in hospitals and examined the process of dying to firmly believe that there are the afterlife and the spirit world.

However, there is warning in the Bible on spiritual entities:

1 John 4 

4 Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.

Matthew 24 

24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.

Not only death and life is the crucial issue in the Bible but also the fight against Satan is.  Christ Jesus wants people to know that poor men will enter into Heaven but rich men will fall into the hell.  In other words, Christ Jesus wants people to realize that there is the afterlife and the spirit world.  And, Satan must not mind if people realize the existence of the spirit world.

Rather, Satan must try to send its followers to the spirit world after their death in this world as many as possible to fight against the God and Christ Jesus.  Satan must also try to send evil spirits pretending to be angels into this world or among living people so as to influence or deceive people.

Indeed, Moody's work to develop a mechanism where spirits of deceased men are invoked has not become widely accepted and successful.  Kübler-Ross once relied on a spirit medium who was eventually turned out to be an evil man when she wanted to see her guardian spirits.  They have not tried to establish communications with spiritual entities from their belief in Christ Jesus or the God, but they took access to spiritual matters and the spirit world rather from their standpoints as medical doctors without fully keeping guard on evil spirits, demons, and Satan.    

Nonetheless, it is a great undertaking that they have opened eyes of people to the afterlife and the spirit world through their sincere work in the medical field.  Now, roughly speaking, two thirds of Americans believe in the afterlife, the spirit world, and existence of spiritual entities.  And, a majority of Japanese seem to admit spiritual phenomena and supernatural events.  Indeed, the 21st century will be the century featured by spiritual or supernatural phenomena.

Yet, the most important issue for men is the fight against Satan like in the case of Christ Jesus.  The access to the afterlife and the spirit world should be based on this notion: the fight against Satan.

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Mark 9, King James Version
And he said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That there be some of them that stand here, which shall not taste of death, till they have seen the kingdom of God come with power.
2 And after six days Jesus taketh with him Peter, and James, and John, and leadeth them up into an high mountain apart by themselves: and he was transfigured before them.
3 And his raiment became shining, exceeding white as snow; so as no fuller on earth can white them.
4 And there appeared unto them Elias with Moses: and they were talking with Jesus.

"he spake to them of the Father" - Something More Important than Death or Life

 

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Something More Important than Death or Life

There is something more important than death or life for men.

However, it is common sense that money is the most important thing in this world next to life or death.  But it indicates a state of being brainwashed by Satan.

Nonetheless, if you read the Bible and find that there is the afterlife after death in this world, you should come to think about what is more important than life or death.  Put simply, good or bad is one example that is more important than life or death.  Or another example is faithful or evil. 

It is because everybody goes to the spirit world as a spirit after death in this world.  And, what is the most important thing in the spirit world is whether one's spirit can enter into Heaven where eternal life is given by the God or falls into the hell where one's spirit is to be destroyed by the God.

And this fate in the spirit world is decided based on whether he was poor or rich during his life in this material life.  That is why Christ Jesus did not encourage people to be rich but just to believe in and perform the teachings of the God and Christ Jesus who taught to love the God and their poor neighbors.  And, how can you be rich while your neighbors are poor?  You should be at least as poor as your neighbors.  Besides, if you want to be a neighbor of Christ Jesus, you cannot be richer than Christ Jesus who was a kind of homeless.  So, basically only homeless men are qualified to enter into Heaven.

However, Christ Jesus is merciful, benevolent, and kind, so that He should allow men who were sufficiently poor to be accepted in Heaven.

Therefore, while your are alive in this world, you should not worry about coming death, but should try to be poor as much as possible.  From this point of view, the Pope and other leaders of churches look too rich to be allowed to enter into Heaven.  Conversely, poor people in this world should rejoice with faithful people, since they should be surely given eternal life in Heaven by the God as Christ Jesus so meant. 

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John 8, King James Version

25 Then said they unto him, Who art thou? And Jesus saith unto them, Even the same that I said unto you from the beginning.
26 I have many things to say and to judge of you: but he that sent me is true; and I speak to the world those things which I have heard of him.
27 They understood not that he spake to them of the Father.
28 Then said Jesus unto them, When ye have lifted up the Son of man, then shall ye know that I am he, and that I do nothing of myself; but as my Father hath taught me, I speak these things.

"saying, Lord, save us: we perish" - The Spirit shall Return unto God who Gave It

 

Tokyo Bay to the Pacific Ocean

The Spirit shall Return unto God who Gave It

According to the Bible or specifically Ecclesiastes 12, there are the God and spirits given by Him to men:

7 Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
8 Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher; all is vanity.

It is generally accepted that a man is made of the physical body and the mind.  The body is a mass of molecules, atoms, and other elementary particles, which is substance or material.  However, the mind is work of spiritual energy based on physical structure of the brain.

In other words, when a man is born with the brain in certain structure, the God gives a spirit to the man.  Then, the spiritual energy starts to work, generating the mind.

But, it should be noted that this physical world where a main is born and lives was generated from the spiritual energy coming from the spirit world or Heaven long time ago, or specifically about 14 billion years ago.  So, it is no wonder that there is linkage between the spirit world and this material world or the human world, and through this linkage or channel, the God sends a spirit to each new born baby.  

In this context, the true and real world is not this material or human world but the spirit world.  Therefore, without spiritual power or spiritual effects, this world is vanity or nothingness.  Indeed, if the entire universe is full of stars where none lives, the universe is vanity or nothingness.  Because there is linkage with the spirit world, this universe has meaning and significance, especially for men.      

In near-death experiences, men sometimes perceive existence of the spirit world that leads to Heaven or the hell.  In such a case, at the entrance to the spirit world, men surely feel satisfied, welcomed, fulfilled, and loved unconditionally. 

However, the fact that a man has a spirit given by the God and the spirit will return to the spirit world at his death in this world is not so important as the issue that there are Heaven and the hell in the spirit world.  The critical issue is that only poor, faithful, and righteous men can be accepted in Heaven and rich, unfaithful, and evil men go to the hell.  

Ultimately, everything in this material world or human world is vanity or nothingness without the linkage with the spirit world.  A man without work of the spirit energy or the mind is also vanity or nothingness, since his body is just dust.     

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Matthew 8, King James Version

24 And, behold, there arose a great tempest in the sea, insomuch that the ship was covered with the waves: but he was asleep.
25 And his disciples came to him, and awoke him, saying, Lord, save us: we perish.
26 And he saith unto them, Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith? Then he arose, and rebuked the winds and the sea; and there was a great calm.
27 But the men marvelled, saying, What manner of man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey him!

"none of these things which ye have spoken come upon me" - Rich Men will be Destroyed in the Hell together with Satan

 

Around the National Assembly Bldg. in Tokyo

Rich Men will be Destroyed in the Hell together with Satan

Christians are those who believe in the Bible and the Gospels, so that they believe in the afterlife, Heaven, and the hell in addition to the God, the holy spirit, and Christ Jesus as well as existence of their spirits.

Therefore, they should not be afraid of their death in this world, since they believe that their sprits will live in the spirit world, the afterlife, or Heaven.  However, there is something more important than the afterlife, or the fact or belief that men's spirits will live in the afterlife after physical death in this world.  That is why problems in this world cannot be solved or men have to suffer various problems in this world.

It also tells that the notion that a man's spirit will continue to live in the spirit world even after his body's death in this world does not improve the human world or save souls of men.  So, if Christ Jesus had declared only this truth, poor people of 2,000 years ago should not have been impressed so much.

The point at issue is that poor men can be accepted in Heaven but rich men cannot.  Hearing this teaching from a man called Jesus who had shown His authority given by the God in addition to seeing miracles that showed His authority over this world, poor people rejoiced and came to believe in Him.  Indeed, Christ Jesus came to this world to save the poor, the unhappy, and the inflicted but not to judge evil and rich men. 

However, Christ Jesus meant that rich and evil men would be destroyed by the God in the hell together with Satan.  This is one of the most important part in the teachings of Christ Jesus. 

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Acts 8, King James Version

20 But Peter said unto him, Thy money perish with thee, because thou hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money.
21 Thou hast neither part nor lot in this matter: for thy heart is not right in the sight of God.
22 Repent therefore of this thy wickedness, and pray God, if perhaps the thought of thine heart may be forgiven thee.
23 For I perceive that thou art in the gall of bitterness, and in the bond of iniquity.
24 Then answered Simon, and said, Pray ye to the Lord for me, that none of these things which ye have spoken come upon me.
25 And they, when they had testified and preached the word of the Lord, returned to Jerusalem, and preached the gospel in many villages of the Samaritans.
26 And the angel of the Lord spake unto Philip, saying, Arise, and go toward the south unto the way that goeth down from Jerusalem unto Gaza, which is desert.

"Jesus said unto him, Follow me" - Everybody Dies Someday in this World

Tokyo

Everybody Dies Someday in this World

If somebody tells you that everybody dies someday in this world, you must not be impressed.  But, this is the starting point of the teachings of Christ Jesus.

Death in this world is not the end of your life, but your spirit carries your life to the spirit world leading to Heaven or the hell.  And, if your life in your spirit is carried to the hell, it will be completely destroyed there by the God, which is the end of your life where you life perfectly comes to nothing.  It is the second and complete death.  What is left after your second death is totally nothing.

However, if your life is carried to Heaven with your spirit, it will become eternal life that never dies, so that you do not have to be afraid of the physical death in this material world.  Yet, you have to be accepted in Heaven by the God.  And, Christ Jesus made clear the conditions for which you will be accepted by the God.  In this context, Christ Jesus is the great benefactor to the mankind. 

Put simply, you have to be poor in this world, which means that you have never sold completely your spirit to Satan.  So, if you are poor, you will be regarded as faithful or righteous, since only faithful or righteous men never sell their souls to Satan.

In other words, you have to sell any part of your spirit to Satan so as to be rich, materially happy, successful, or content.  Therefore, being rich, happy, and successful is a one-way ticket to the hell.

Therefore, many rich people deny this teaching of Christ Jesus.  Or, sometimes they controlled churches so as to make them not emphasize this teaching: The poor enter into Heaven while the rich fall into the hell.

To clearly understand the teaching of Christ Jesus, you have to admit that there is a spirit in yourself in addition to your body and your mind.  And, you have to also believe that there is the spirit world or the afterlife, and furthermore Heaven and the hell.  And ultimately, you have to believe that there is the God who is the spirit as Christ Jesus described.

Consequently, if you believe in Christ Jesus and the Bible, you will surely admit near-death experiences; existence of spirits, the spirit world, and the afterlife.  And, the Gospels tell that the spirit of Christ Jesus appeared with a material body among believers after death on the cross.  It also depicts the situation where spirits came down from Heaven onto believers hiding in a house in Jerusalem.  So, without accepting spiritual phenomena as real and true, you cannot understand Christ Jesus and His teachings or the Gospels.  

  

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Matthew 8, King James Version

20 And Jesus saith unto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.
21 And another of his disciples said unto him, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father.
22 But Jesus said unto him, Follow me; and let the dead bury their dead.
23 And when he was entered into a ship, his disciples followed him.