"the devil is gone out of thy daughter" - Communications with Spiritual Entities

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Communications with Spiritual Entities 

The spiritual works of Christ Jesus are described in the Gospels, which are however often taken as metaphors or parables.  However, it is clear that Christ Jesus had come from the spirit world, although He did not often communicate with spiritual entities or the God who was Spirit.

A Japanese professor of medicine in the University of Tokyo experienced communications with his late mother through a spirit medium who was a woman with psychic ability.  One day, the woman, who happened to be one of his acquaintances, called by phone the professor that his late mother wanted to talk to him as she had some worry about his son.  When she died recently suddenly due to a cardiac disease, she had been living alone in an apartment room near his house since death of her husband.  So, he was sorry that he had not lived with his mother, which made him feel a kind of responsible for her death.  So, he wanted to see the spirit of his late mother if possible at all.  So, he visited the spirit medium to meet the spirit of his late mother.  And, he experienced a spiritual but real event that was shocking to him who was also a medical scientist. 

When he sat and faced the spirit medium, the spirit of his late mother came down, as if falling with a loud thump, into the mind and body of the woman acting as a spirit medium who immediately started to talk and behave like his late mother.  The son and the spirit of his late mother greeted each other and naturally talked as if she had been living.  She even talked about detailed matters none knew except the son and the mother.  For example, he asked why she had not put the wedding ring on her finger when she had been found dead although she had always put it on her finger in the past in his memory.  The spirit of his mother immediately answered that she had stopped putting it on her finger and placed it on a drawer with some past letters in her room since death of her husband or his father, which her son had not realized till this conversation.

After the spirit of his late mother apologized that her sudden death made her son feel so sad and embarrassed but found that he was alright, it said that it would not come back to this world any more to see her son.  It gracefully disappeared from the mind and body of the spirit medium.  And there were no troubles or regrets to the professor and the spirit medium.  But, this event assured the professor that spirits of the dead lived in the spirit world and they could communicate with beloved ones left behind in this world.  Additionally since this event, the professor started to study the relationship between medical science and spiritual matters regardless that modern medical science did not attach weight to spiritual phenomena.  

This spiritual event experienced and reported by the professor can be trusted to be true, since there is no profit or advantage if he told a lie or made up such a story.  He has already enjoyed high social standing and fame as professor of the top university in Japan.             

Not all the people could have such experiences.  But, if the Gospels were read from a view of someone having such spiritual experiences or near-death experiences, it should be clearly understood that most of works and miracles Christ Jesus had made or performed had been related to the spirit world.

There are many spirt mediums and persons with spiritual ability who can communicate with spiritual entities.  But there are evil spirits and Satan in the spirit world.  Therefore, we should only trust spirt mediums and persons with spiritual ability who have faith in the God and Christ Jesus.  There must be critical issues related to spirits of dead men that can be only safely handled by such faithful men.  As there are so many evil, sinful, and dangerous things in this world, there are some risks and traps in communications with spiritual entities.

We should first read the Bible and understand what Christ Jesus wanted to teach us before going into spiritual communications.  Indeed, we can only enter into Heaven through Christ Jesus.       

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Mark 7, King James Version
26 The woman was a Greek, a Syrophenician by nation; and she besought him that he would cast forth the devil out of her daughter.
27 But Jesus said unto her, Let the children first be filled: for it is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it unto the dogs.
28 And she answered and said unto him, Yes, Lord: yet the dogs under the table eat of the children's crumbs.
29 And he said unto her, For this saying go thy way; the devil is gone out of thy daughter.

"Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed" - O Grave, Where is thy Victory?

 

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O Grave, Where is thy Victory?

The most important issue for the desperately poor and faithful without hope in this world is whether they can live in an afterlife and how much they will be blessed in the afterlife. 

And, Christ Jesus clearly assured them that they could live in an afterlife as spiritual entities and could be allowed to enter into Heaven to have eternal life.  According to the teaching of Christ Jesus, being poor and faithful in this world means that being assured to enter into Heaven.

This teaching was extended and elaborated by Paul and other Disciples in 1 Corinthians 15:
51 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
55 O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?

These passages mean that when a man dies, he will experience a mystery to be changed into a spiritual entity as indicated in near-death experiences or the like reported by many people.  Specifically, he hears a sound of trumpet while acquiring the incorruptible body for life in the spirit world.  His body and mind will die, but his soul or spirit will continue to live and enter into the spirit world.   Therefore, death in this life will turn to be meaningless.  The poor and faithful should eventually overcome death with help from the God and Christ Jesus.  

This phenomena tells that there are specific structure and relationships among the physical world, the inner psychological world, and the spirit world.  They must be related to the state and conditions of the generation of this physical universe and living things, especially the human beings.

However, the modern science has not reached a level high enough to explain how this universe was generated and how consciousness was emerged in the human brains.  Nonetheless this universe has been deployed in these 13.8 billion years, and men have developed their own minds to create religions and philosophy.  This universe follows certain natural laws, and work of our minds is in the certain framework set by ideal concepts and ideological integrity, or in other words, based on holy rules and orders.        

If this material universe was created through work of the God, who is Spirit according to Christ Jesus, the spirit power of the God must have been the factor that generated the energy enabling the formation of this material world.  Therefore, there is the spirit world under this physical universe and the material world.  So, it is no wonder that a spirt or a soul a man has in his mind can sometimes communicate with the spirit world or spiritual entities there.   

Someday, say in coming 100 or 1000 years, elite scientists might find the true status and relationships among materials, human minds, and ideals.  However, the truth was already described in the Bible based on the words of Christ Jesus delivered 2000 years ago to offer the poor and unhappy in this world a reassurance of salvation of their souls in life after death. 

Consequently, believing that the poor will be blessed by the God in Heaven after death in this world is believing in Christ Jesus.  More specifically, the poor, unhappy and faithful never die so as to live forever in Heaven, but the rich, happy, and evil die the second and final death in the hell, after death in this material world.    

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1 Corinthians 7, King James Version

27 Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.
28 But and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned. Nevertheless such shall have trouble in the flesh: but I spare you.
29 But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none;
30 And they that weep, as though they wept not; and they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as though they possessed not;
31 And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passeth away.

"out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts" - Toward Clarification of the Spirit World as the End of the World is Closer

 

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Toward Clarification of the Spirit World as the End of the World is Closer

Since the late 19th century, spiritualism or communications with the spirit world have been intensified as many and various people have come to report their near-death experiences or psychic phenomena.  

Indeed, it might tell that the end of the world is coming closer, since the Bible (Act 2) says:

17 And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams:
18 And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy:
19 And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke:
20 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and notable day of the Lord come:
21 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.

First of all, everybody should admit that he has his mind that is neither material nor substance.  And his mind is in his body or specifically in the brain that is made of biological cells which are made of molecules and atoms that are material or substance.

Therefore, when molecules, atoms or element particles that are material or substance build a human body or the brain in specific configuration, a mind is generated, the mechanism of which is, however, not yet scientifically elucidated.

So, it must be possible that this whole universe that is material or substance has a kind of minds.  However, conversely, it might be possible that spirit generate a material universe like ours.  In other words, it seems reasonable that the God, who is Spirit, created this material universe where human beings and their minds have been generated.

The material world and the spirit world must be closer than we think that they are.  And, the God must be able to put spirit in the human brains, so that some people come to have the spiritual ability to communicate with spirits in the spirit world.

Through WWI and WWII, human activities regrading communications with the spirit world seem to have been intensified.  It must indicate that the end of the world has come closer.  For example, the Marian Apparitions at Lourdes were reported in 1858; the Miracle of Fátima occurred miraculously in 1917; Raymond Moody wrote strenuously his books about Afterlife and near-death experiences (NDE) since 1970s; and even some American children saw Heaven or Christ Jesus, books on which became bestsellers in the U.S. in these decades.

Therefore, as it is 2000 years since the first appearance of Christ Jesus in this world, the end of the world must come closer in the 21st century, since some scientists are trying to clarify the mystery of consciousness, which should lead to deeper understanding of the spirit world and religious matters.   

However, there is Satan in the spirit world.  It should try to interfere with these human activities related to the spirt world.  Satan must be able to come into the minds of preachers, priests, bishops, etc.  Therefore, only spiritual phenomena linked to faith in the God or Christ Jesus should be trusted among many and various stories reporting spiritual experiences.   Especially it must be necessary to keep watch on those who earn money by selling their spiritual ability or power.

Nonetheless, it is better to choose a priest with true spiritual power as the Pope or the head of any churches.  

 
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Mark 7, King James Version
20 And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man.
21 For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
22 Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:
23 All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.

"Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down" - The Core of the Teachings of Christ Jesus

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The Core of the Teachings of Christ Jesus

The core of the teachings of Christ Jesus is as follows:

1. Men's souls continue to live in the spirit world after physical death of his body and mind in this life.

2. From the spirit world, the souls of bad men go to the hell to be completely destroyed by the God while those of good men can enter into Heaven to live forever.

3. The measure to judge whether one is evil or good is whether one is rich or poor.  

Therefore His teachings are good news for the poor, the unhappy, the suffering, etc.

It is as if Christ Jesus were saying to poor men that they should be glad since they will be well accepted and blessed in Heaven after death in this world.  And actually, He told to abandon wealth so as to be accepted in Heaven, and emphasized that it was much better to abandon money but get eternal life in Heaven than to accumulate and keep money but go to the hell so as to be completely destroyed by the God there.

Happy men in this world do not need the God, which means that they cannot enter into Heaven to be blessed by the God.  Only sick people need a medical doctor, but healthy people do not need him.

If you are a poor man suffering from poverty and unhappiness, you must be relieved from pain and agony when hearing these words from Christ Jesus.  

No matter evil or good a man is, his soul continues to live in the spirit world after his death in this life.  However, evil men should die the second death in the hell while good men can further continue to live forever in Heaven. 

This is the core of the teachings of Christ Jesus, which is really good news.    

        

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Matthew 7, King James Version
17 Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.
18 A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.
19 Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
20 Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.
21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.

"Till another king arose, which knew not Joseph" - Reincarnation to be Allowed by the God

 

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Reincarnation to be Allowed by the God

More than 100 years ago, a notable foreign writer in Japan once wrote about a report on a child who was born in the late samurai era before modernization of Japan and claimed that he had been reborn.

Koizumi Yakumo (June 1850 – 26 September 1904), born Patrick Lafcadio Hearn (Greek: Πατρίκιος Λευκάδιος Χερν), was a writer. He worked in the United States before moving to Japan and becoming Japanese. He was of Greek-Irish descent. He wrote about Japanese culture, especially his collections of legends and ghost stories, such as Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things. In the United States, he is also known for his writings about New Orleans, based on his decade-long stay there. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lafcadio_Hearn) 

The child, Katsugoro, living in a farming village around Tokyo (then called Edo) said, when he was 8 years old, that he had been reborn here.  He had once been born in a family, not known to his current family members, in another village several miles from the current one more than a decade ago but had died of a disease there when he had been six years old.  First Katsugoro hinted his rebirth to his elder sister and then to his parents, and finally told a detailed story as asked by his grandmother who later stated the story to officials (samurais) coming from Edo.   

His claim of rebirth was identified and proved by his current and former family members.  And his story reached Edo, so that some notable scholar in the capital of Japan wrote about it, which took attention of Hearn who was interested in spiritual matters and religions.  Accordingly Hearn wrote abut the boy to readers in the U.S., etc.:

"The Rebirth of Katsugoro
I
The following is not a story—at least it is not one of my stories. It is only the translation of an old Japanese document—or rather a series of documents—very much signed and sealed, and dating back to the early part of the present (i.e. the 19th) century. Various authors appear to have made use of these documents, especially the compiler of the curious collection of Buddhist stories entitled Bukkyo-hiyakkwazensho, to whom they furnished the material of the twenty-sixth narrative in that work. The present translation, however, was made from a manuscript copy discovered in a private library in Tokyo. I am responsible for nothing beyond a few notes appended to the text... (https://www.bps.lk/olib/bl/bl094_Hearn_The-Rebirth-of-Katsugoro.html)"

According to Katsugoro, when he died, his soul left his body and met an old man who looked like the grandfather in the new family where he was later reborn.  After three years of moving to various places with the boy, the old man, pointing to a house, said to Katsugoro that he had to be reborn again in this house, since there was a good old woman: “Now you must be reborn—for it is three years since you died. You are to be reborn in that house. The person who will become your grandmother is very kind; so it will be well for you to be conceived and born there.”  

Accordingly, Katsugoro entered into the body of the wife of the house to be reborn.  However, we may doubt the story and suspect that his grandmother instilled the story of rebirth to her grandson Katsugoro for some reason.  However, "Grandmother, never forget to offer warm food to the honourable dead [Hotoke Sama], and do not forget to give to priests—I am sure it is very good to do these things."  Put simply, the grandmother was a kind of devotional and benevolent women sometimes found in local Japan.  She never forgot to help and give any little money to traveling poor monks.  It is unthinkable that his grandmother brainwashed Katsugoro for any reason. 

Rather, we should take Katsugoro's story as face value.  For some reason, at the end of the samurai era and before the start of modernization of Japan in the 19th century, the God made a plan to have a boy who died at six years old get reborn in a new family as a grandson of a devotional and benevolent woman.  Additionally, Katsugoro lived from 1814 to 1869 as a rich farmer according to official records. 

However, Katsugoro's case has been taken by today's Japanese as just one of strange spiritual stories, generated due to old superstition, recoded in the samurai era or before modernization of Japan.  Nonetheless, Ian Pretyman Stevenson (October 31, 1918 – February 8, 2007), a Canadian-born American psychiatrist who studied reincarnation examples all over the world, paid an attention to Katsugoro's case.

Anyway, reincarnation cases must have background religious stories like Katsugoro's case.  There must be some reason for reincarnation to be allowed by the God.       

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Acts 7, King James Version

15 So Jacob went down into Egypt, and died, he, and our fathers,
16 And were carried over into Sychem, and laid in the sepulchre that Abraham bought for a sum of money of the sons of Emmor the father of Sychem.
17 But when the time of the promise drew nigh, which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,
18 Till another king arose, which knew not Joseph.

"If then I do that which I would not" - More Men Destined to the Hell than Those Destined to Heaven

 

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More Men Destined to the Hell than Those Destined to Heaven

A Japanese female professor and Catholic sister had a near-death experience for herself.  Since then, she had special power to heal the dying to health or console their spirits going into an afterlife.

She has been asked and invited by many, though mostly strangers to her, to death beds of their dying family members or relatives.  Then, she has found that there is one common attitude among the dying: Having a wish to make peace with the others whom they quarreled with in the past and they are leaving in this world.

As those dying know that she had had a near-death experience, they trusted in and accepted her.  So, the professor could see real minds of them.  Then, she has been reassured that everyman is linked together through love given by the God.  However, there are those who have sold their souls to Satan.   

Most people who had near-death experiences said that they saw God-like bright light and saw dead family members or relatives living happily in the spirit world.  However, they seldom told that they saw Satan or evil spirits in the spirit world or they found that they were to fall into the hell.  

Most testimonies related to near-death experiences have given the impression that men could live happily in life after death.  But, Christ Jesus clearly meant that there are Heaven and the hell.  And the Gospels tell that a majority of people do not follow sufficiently the words of the God.  Where will such men go?  They should go to the hell through the spirit world after physical death in this world.  Therefore, there must be many who saw the hell in their near-death experiences.  But can they rather candidly or honestly tell that they are to go to the hell as shown in their near-death experiences?  They must be silent or deny such near-death experiences.

That must be why the experiments and projects to study near-death experiences, such as the one promoted by Raymond Moody, were not widely and popularly pursued to make clear the status of dead people.  If it was found that people dying would observe not only a kind of Heaven but also the hell, such a study should be abandoned. 

Those who are engaged in apparitions with psychic power for business usually tell that a dead man is living happily in the spirit world and wishing happy life to remaining family members.  They seldom say that a dead man is with evil spirits or Satan in the hell.  Accordingly, clients would pay some nice money to those who provide services of apparitions.

Indeed, if you believe in the Bible, you must take it as a matter of course that a dead man continues to live in the spirit world, but evil ones should eventually fall into the hell while good ones should be allowed to enter into Heaven to live forever.  

In near-death experiences or evocation of spirits, if one observed only evil spirits, he should not publicly report it.  Or if one finds that he is destined to go to the hell, he would not publicly report it.  

Anyway, there are more men destined to the hell than those destined to Heaven.  And those who are going to Heaven would not like to save those going to the hell, since they should be attacked and harmed by the others or Satan if they tried to do so. 

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Romans 7, King James Version
14 For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
15 For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.
16 If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good.
17 Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.

"strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life" - By Christ Jesus 2,000 Years Ago in Today's Israel

 

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By Christ Jesus 2,000 Years Ago in Today's Israel

One of the most significant and forthright words of Christ Jesus is as follows:

25 Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:
26 And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?

If these words are true as supported by the God, they are really good news for the mankind.  And, Christ Jesus said that He was authorized by the God, since He was the Son of the God.  Therefore, if you believe in Christ Jesus, every problem in your life should be resolved, since you will enter into Heaven after your death in this world.

However, there are some important conditions like in everything related to your life.  First you have to be not rich, which means you are not evil.  Your being rich should lead you to the hell after entering into the spirit world, and you will be completely destroyed there by the God.  Your wealth and money in this world are not useful.

Secondary, you have to admit that you have your own soul above your mind in the body.  But, it is difficult for men to clearly realize existence of their own souls while living.  However, it is sometimes felt that a soul left the body of a dead man when seeing the man dying.  As a camera cannot see itself and take itself into a picture, one's soul above his mind cannot be easily perceived.

Through ascetic training, some monks of Buddhism have tried to grasp their own souls or spirits in their minds, which should, they believe, lead to enlightenment.  But, Christ Jesus simply assured poor people that they had souls and spirits like the God had.  Buddhism also tells that one's soul lives after his physical death in this world and good men's souls would go to the paradise while bad men's souls fall into the hell.  Christ Jesus also taught that rich men could not enter into Heaven while the poor could, since riche men were regraded as evil men while the poor were regarded as non-evil men. 

Anyway, you do not have to be afraid of death as long as you are poor or good (which is also taught by Socrates of ancient Greek).  Although you may be poor and evil, you must have a chance to be fairly judged in the spirit world.  But evil ones and those judged to be evil should be completely destroyed by the God in the hell, which is the second death or decisive death.

Third, Satan is also to be completely destroyed in the hell.  But, it has been trying to make as many people as possible come to the hell so that the God would feel sorry.  For this purpose, Satan uses money with which to brainwash men and make men forget about the God, Heaven, the hell, the spirit world, etc.

In this context, in theory, the final aim of science and civilization is to fully understand death or get a method for obtaining eternal life.  However, it was addressed and resolved by Christ Jesus 2,000 years ago in today's Israel.           

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Matthew 7, King James Version

12 Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.
13 Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:
14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
15 Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
16 Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?
17 Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.

"much murmuring among the people concerning him" - If You Don't Believe Existence of Spirit...

 

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If You Don't Believe Existence of Spirit...

Spirit or the Holy Ghost is one of key concepts in the Gospels:

Luke 3

16 John answered, saying unto them all, I indeed baptize you with water; but one mightier than I cometh, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to unloose: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire:

21 Now when all the people were baptized, it came to pass, that Jesus also being baptized, and praying, the heaven was opened,

22 And the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon him, and a voice came from heaven, which said, Thou art my beloved Son; in thee I am well pleased.

Luke 4

13 And when the devil had ended all the temptation, he departed from him for a season.

14 And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee: and there went out a fame of him through all the region round about.

John 1

32 And John bare record, saying, I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it abode upon him.
33 And I knew him not: but he that sent me to baptize with water, the same said unto me, Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he which baptizeth with the Holy Ghost.

John 3
5 Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
7 Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.
8 The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.

So, to believe in Christ Jesus, the Gospels, and the Bible is to believe in existence of Spirit or the Holy Ghost as well as Heaven and the hell.

This world is made of material or substance, but one is also made of a mind connected to a soul or a spirt.  In addition, Plato claimed that there is the world of ideas or perfect representations of concepts.  

In this context, it should be noted that some wise men say that there are visible elements and non-visible elements in this world.  Even the modern physics handles dark matter and dark energy that are not observed. 

Although the modern science cannot scientifically fully explain how this universe was generated, it seems reasonable that a certain type of energy in the spirit world caused the generation of this physical universe.

Likewise, although the modern science cannot scientifically fully explain how a mind or consciousness is generated in the human brain, it seems reasonable that a certain type of energy in the spirit world causes the generation of a mind, consciousness, or an inner psychological world in the human brain.

Rather, we should think that the spirit world is the real world and this material universe is a kind of secondary world; the God, spirits, and angels are essential and real but this material world is a kind of secondary world; or Plato's world with perfectness is principal and this human world is subsidiary.   

Anyway if you don't believe existence of spirit or a soul above your mind, you cannot even imagine or understand the God.  You may as well doubt the existence of your mind.   


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John 7, King James Version
11 Then the Jews sought him at the feast, and said, Where is he?
12 And there was much murmuring among the people concerning him: for some said, He is a good man: others said, Nay; but he deceiveth the people.
13 Howbeit no man spake openly of him for fear of the Jews.
14 Now about the midst of the feast Jesus went up into the temple, and taught.

"if they cannot contain, let them marry" - There is a Natural Body, and There is a Spiritual Body

 

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There is a Natural Body, and There is a Spiritual Body

According to surveys, "it is estimated that near-death experiences are reported by five percent of the adult American population...4 to 15% of the population have had NDEs." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near-death_studies)

In the spirit world, they found that they were alive, however, in different bodies than those they had while living in this world.  As it is their spirits that entered into the spirit world, their bodies were naturally different from material bodies.  And the Bible (1 Corinthians 15) testifies it:

35 But some man will say, How are the dead raised up? and with what body do they come? 

36 Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die:

44 It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.

From the beginning, the modern science still cannot explain how this material universe was generated although it suggests that the high-temperature vacuum state changed to the low-temperature vacuum state in 10 to the minus 36th to 10 to the minus 34th seconds after the initial creation of the material universe.

But it must be sure that the spirit world existed before the initial creation of the material universe.  So, it is understandable that someone who had a near-death-experience was told by the God in the spirit world  that everything in the material universe was created from spirits.  So, since the creation of this material universe based on spirit power, there must have been channels between the material world and the spirit world.  And a spirit must come from the spirit world into a human being in the material world, and it goes back to the spirit world when his material body dies.  It must be seen in the story or Gospels of Christ Jesus.

Therefore, the Bible or the Gospels were created to make it assured for human beings that men return to the spirit world when their material bodies die.  In this context, it is not a tragedy that Christ Jesus was killed on the crucifix.  He was to live in the spiritual body in the spirit world.  Christ Jesus should not have been afraid of His death in this world.

However, the fact that Christ Jesus was killed by men brainwashed by Satan must have set a horrible fate to the mankind.  The God should judge the mankind according to their insane stupidity.  On the other hand, Satan has continued its insane interference with the human history.  That is why the human history has been full of tragedies.

In this context, it is only when we die and enter into the spirit world that we are relived from the cruel fate of the material world.  Indeed when we get spiritual bodies in life after death, we will no more get diseases, poverty, or unhappiness unless we are condemned to the hell.

So, it is truly good news that Christ Jesus proclaimed that the poor, the unhappy, or the suffering in this world would be welcomed in Heaven through the spirit world after death in the material world.                

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1 Corinthians 7, King James Version
8 I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, it is good for them if they abide even as I.
9 But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.
10 And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:
11 But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife.
12 But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away.
13 And the woman which hath an husband that believeth not, and if he be pleased to dwell with her, let her not leave him.

"the works thereof are evil" - The Poor or The Unhappy would Be Blessed in the Spirit World

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The Poor or The Unhappy would Be Blessed in the Spirit World

The Gospels were written based on the notion that there are spirits and souls in men which would enter into the spirit world, which means that there is life after death.

If rich and happy men in this world hear these words in the Gospels, they might simply try to continue their happy living in an afterlife.  They will not change their ways of living, neglecting poor and unhappy people.  They will continue not to love the poor, the suffering, and the abused.  And when the poor hear these words in the Gospels, they might be afraid that their unhappiness continues even in an afterlife.

But, Christ Jesus clearly said that the poor and the unhappy during living in this world should be warmly accepted in the afterlife and be accordingly led to Heaven.  And, the rich, the cruel, or the evil in this world should be condemned to the hell in the afterlife to be permanently destroyed by the God, since they have sold their souls to Satan.

In this context, the words of Christ Jesus is really good news for the poor and the unhappy.

However, some spirit mediums or those who claim that they have spiritual power often tell that they can see spirits of dead men living happily in an afterlife, regardless of whether they were poor or rich during living in this world.  It is as if they claimed that everybody could live happily in life after death, which however does not match the words of Christ Jesus.   

Satan should not mind if men come to realize that there is life after death, as long as men sell their souls to Satan to be rich and happy.  Those rich and happy men should just want to be rich and happy in their living in the spirit world.  And they would be satisfied by hearing those spirit mediums and men with spiritual power assuring their happiness in life after death in the spirit world.

Put simply, Christ Jesus said that the poor or the unhappy would become blessed in the spirit world after death but the rich or the evil should face the second death in the hell in the spirit world after death in this world. 

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John 7, King James Version
6 Then Jesus said unto them, My time is not yet come: but your time is alway ready.
7 The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil.
8 Go ye up unto this feast: I go not up yet unto this feast: for my time is not yet full come.

"but eat bread with unwashen hands?" - A Blasphemy to the God

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A Blasphemy to the God 

It is said about 20% of those who faced death but were recovered to live have near-death-experiences and about 20% of medical doctors think that near-death-experiences really show life after death.

However, Raymond Moody (1944 -) says that science has not yet explained how near-death-experiences occur in a recent interview, although he wrote books on near-death-experiences based on hundreds of cases he has studied.

As those who confessed that they had near-death-experiences did not tell that they met spirits of people living in this world but only of those who had already died during such experiences, it seems to corroborate credibility of these reports on such experiences. 

From the beginning, Christ Jesus taught His teachings and the Gospels presented part of His lives based on the notion that there was the afterlife in addition to the God and Satan.  The concept of Heaven is at the central part of His teachings to the poor, the weeping, the suffering, the pure in heart, the merciful, etc. to comfort and save them, although the fight against Satan must be the hidden major theme.

Science is the method or way for men to understand the nature and the universe.  Even Plato of ancient Greek believed near-death-experiences and life after death without knowing the modern science we know today.  There must be other ways to comprehend the nature, the universe, this world and the spirit world, etc.  There must be various elements, events, and things that can be only perceived, say, by intuition or faith in the God.

Rather, today, there are some people who claim that they have supernatural power or spiritual ability to see spirits of the dead or futures.  Most of them often tell that relatives of people who asked them to perform as spirit mediums are living happily in the afterlife.

Indeed, those who had near-death-experiences rarely said that they had entered into the hell or saw Satan or devils.  They mostly reported that they had seen super-bright light or angel-like figures.  That may be so only because they had just came to the entrance to the spirit world.  Afterwards, they should have been led to Heaven or the hell.  The afterlife should not be simply the fairy-tale-like world where even evil men who had sold their souls to Satan while living in this world could live happily forever.

In this context, it can be understood that the Vatican does not support studies on near-death-experiences.  They must not view stories like Harry Potter with favors.  Only communications with spirits and the spirit world acknowledged by the Vatican should be, they must think, encouraged.

Anyway, if you believe that you have your own minds whose work cannot be yet fully explained by science, it is better to believe that there is life after death before you die, since near-death-experiences suggest that such conviction should help you out of fear and desperate.

It should be helpful to know that Plato of ancient Greek still admired by the modern scholars believed life after death before Christ Jesus.  And, in Buddhist world, the Tibetan Book of the Dead presented the sate of the consciousness after death and how men should be prepared for their death, since Tibetans in the 8th century when the Book was compiled thought that the moment right before death was crucial for one's salvation from bondage of this world.       

Therefore, it can be said that life after death exists just like everybody has his own mind.  And it must be a blasphemy to the God not to believe in life after death in the spirit world that is closer to the God than this world.

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Mark 7, King James Version

5 Then the Pharisees and scribes asked him, Why walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashen hands?
6 He answered and said unto them, Well hath Esaias prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoureth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.
7 Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
8 For laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition of men, as the washing of pots and cups: and many other such like things ye do.
9 And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition.

"for he would not walk in Jewry, because the Jews sought to kill him" - Christ Jesus, the Most Reliable Man with Spiritual Power

 

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Christ Jesus, the Most Reliable Man with Spiritual Power

Decades ago in Japan, there was one travelling fortune-teller, providing fortune-telling to a house to another in a village to another.  

He came to a house and met an old wife to do fortune-telling, saying, "You can live very long.  You should never die if your were killed.  It is very rare to see your kind of blessed women in these villages.  I bet you have a very good luck."  The fortune-teller never stopped effusively flattering and pleasing her.  The old wife became exceedingly happy and offered him a gorgeous lunch in addition to paying a lucrative fee.  Other families of the house also felt happy.  But, the next morning, she suddenly died when she woke up in the bed. 

Her grand daughter wrote this true story to a publishing company collecting experiences of death of family members.

I don't think that this fortune-teller failed in judging the survival time of the old wife.  Rather, he must have judged correctly that death is very close to the woman.  But, instead of telling her that she would die soon, he opted to rejoice her whose death was imminent.  Indeed, it must have been very rare for the fortune-teller to meet a woman whose death was clearly so close. 

This story tells that there are some men who have a kind of supernatural power to see fates or survival time of others.  Probably, they can simply feel how lucky a man is or how long he will survive.  Otherwise, their failures in fortune-telling or mistakes in judging fates of people must prevail soon from a village to another, and their business should not be successful.

In another example in Japan, an author and doctor of psychiatry who interviewed hundreds of inmates on death row in prisons gradually came to judge whether such inmates were just pretending to be innocent or insane or were rather falsely charged.  He came to feel the difference between them through his sincere interviews with data on the inmates.      

A man judges others with his mind's capacity and sensing through observation.  But he has a spirit in or above his mind, which is linked to the spirit world.  And, spirits in the spirit world must be able to see the fate of anyone living in this world.  Therefore, if wisdom can flow from a spirit to a mind, a man should be able to realize various hidden things.

To capture the ability to make wisdom flow from one's own spirit to his mind, some religious men, ascetic monks, spiritual practitioners, etc. are engaged in ascetic training.  But, some men must be given such ability by nature.  Or some others might acquire such ability by chance, since spirit moves around like winds.

So, regardless that a man is holy, good, or evil, he can happen to acquire and perform spiritual ability, since the spirt of a man is closely linked to his mind.  In this context, it must be possible that a false Christ appears in society.  It is very likely that Satan tries to use unholy fortune-tellers, men with super-natural power, or spirt mediums, since Satan also lives in the spirit world.

In this context, the most reliable man with spiritual power is Christ Jesus, so that we have to read the Gospels from this point of view.   

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John 7, King James Version
After these things Jesus walked in Galilee: for he would not walk in Jewry, because the Jews sought to kill him.
2 Now the Jew's feast of tabernacles was at hand.
3 His brethren therefore said unto him, Depart hence, and go into Judaea, that thy disciples also may see the works that thou doest.
4 For there is no man that doeth any thing in secret, and he himself seeketh to be known openly. If thou do these things, shew thyself to the world.
5 For neither did his brethren believe in him.
6 Then Jesus said unto them, My time is not yet come: but your time is alway ready.

"What sign shewest thou then, that we may see, and believe thee?" - What is Born of the Spirit is Spirit

 

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If a robot has the ability to choose one of two choices, you may not be impressed much, say, in a chess game.  But if a robot shows the ability to choose one from 10 billion choices, you might think that it has unique intelligence, since there are less than 10 billion people in this world.

To one piece of input of any kind, each man shows his unique response among probably 10 billion ways in daily life.  So, if a robot responds to one piece of input of any kind by choosing one unique response out of possible 10 billion ways of response, you might judge that the robot actually thinks and behaves like a man does.

For another example, a movie is reproduced and presented at the rate of 24 frames per second, so that a robot moves its body at this rate must look moving naturally like a real man. 

Robots are mostly made of electronic circuits, while a man is made of biological cells.  There are about 40 trillion cells in the human body.  So, if a robot with 40 trillion semiconductor chips each of which can function like human cells, you may think that the robot is an artificial human.

If a robot comes to have the degree of accuracy in thinking and behaving that is equivalent to that of a human being, you must really think that the robot has become an artificial human.  Indeed, when a man thinks of or judges anything taking into account 100 factors in daily life, a robot having the ability to do so taking into million factors must look more intelligent and humane.     　　     

However, no matter how much a robot reaches the level of human beings in terms of logical thinking and sensory judgement, it must be difficult for a robot to obtain the spiritual ability of human beings.  Indeed, the spiritual ability must be the key to understand the human intelligence, mind, and consciousness.

The Gospels should be read from this point of view:
6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
7 Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.
8 The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.
9 Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can these things be?
10 Jesus answered and said unto him, Art thou a master of Israel, and knowest not these things? (John 3)

 

In this context, to build a robot having spiritual power, artificial biological cells like human cells should be used instead of using electronic circuits, since a man made of human cells can receive spirit sent by the God.

Therefor, the issue should be how human biological cells, especially in the brain, receive spirit sent by the God through the spirit world into this material world.  However, it must be possible for us to find special biological mechanism in brain cells to capture spirit sent by the God.  In addition, we might be able to scientifically find how Satan spiritually influence this mechanism in the brain.

The relationship between the spirit world and the human world may be akin to the relationship between the human world and the artificial robotic world.     

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John 6, King James Version
29 Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.
30 They said therefore unto him, What sign shewest thou then, that we may see, and believe thee? what dost thou work?
31 Our fathers did eat manna in the desert; as it is written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat.
32 Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Moses gave you not that bread from heaven; but my Father giveth you the true bread from heaven.
33 For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world.