"these have no root, which for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away" - The Last Judgment in the Spirit World and Newton's Prediction in 1700's

 

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The Last Judgment in the Spirit World and Newton's Prediction in 1700's

A mystery of Swedenborg (1688-1772), a Swedish pluralistic-Christian theologian, scientist, philosopher and mystic who claimed that he saw the spirit world, Heaven, and the hell while living in this world, is that he witnessed the Last Judgment in 1757:

One of Swedenborg's lesser-known works presents a startling claim: that the Last Judgment had begun in the previous year (1757) and was completed by the end of that year and that he had witnessed it. According to The Heavenly Doctrine, the Last Judgment took place not in the physical world but in the World of Spirits, halfway between heaven and hell, through which all pass on their way to heaven or hell. The Judgment took place because the Christian church had lost its charity and faith, resulting in a loss of spiritual free will that threatened the equilibrium between heaven and hell in everyone's life. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emanuel_Swedenborg)

After 1757, the French Revolution occurred; the Industrial Revolution occurred; and WWI and WWII happened.   With advancement of science and technology, the world is still going on in the 21st century.

One thing looking relevant to Swedenborg's claim is that influence of Christian churches, especially the Vatican, has been lost more and more since 1757.  On the other hand, material power and wealth the mankind acquired have drastically increased through the Industrial Revolution and WWII.  Today the world is completely a different place than that in the 18th century where there were no TV sets, smart phones, other home electronics, cars, jet planes, other modern machines in addition to the Internet.

Isaac Newton who died in 1727 predicted that the end of the world might start in 2060.  Both Swedenborg and Newton died in 1700s and left their words concerning the end of the world, although their contents are very different.  But, they seemed to have some pessimistic views on the future of the world before the start of modern material civilization.

Now, it is 300 years after the era of Swedenborg and Newton.  If the Last Judgment had been really ended and the fate of the mankind had been decided 300 years ago and the mankind had continued their sinful way of living till the 21st century, the end of the world might come at any time.  And, this corona-pandemic must be taken from this spiritual point of view, although it seems that nobody thinks that this pandemic will lead to the end of the world.

Our solus will continue to live in the spirt world after death in this world.  But, it is so sad that our civilization will end sooner or later.  Due to overwhelming majority of the mankind who have sold their sols to Satan, our civilization might be ended according to Swedenborg's Last Judgment and Newton's prediction made 300 years ago.  It means that there will be no 22nd century for the mankind.

However, if we repent in this pandemic to turn to the God, He might allow us to continue to live, say, even in coming 2000 years.  

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Luke 8, King James Version
11 Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.
12 Those by the way side are they that hear; then cometh the devil, and taketh away the word out of their hearts, lest they should believe and be saved.
13 They on the rock are they, which, when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no root, which for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away.
14 And that which fell among thorns are they, which, when they have heard, go forth, and are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to perfection.
15 But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.

"And he left them, and entering into the ship again" - Poor Men Assumed to be Faithful Should be Accepted in Heaven

 

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Poor Men Assumed to be Faithful Should be Accepted in Heaven

If everybody is taught in primary school that there is the afterlife and his soul will continue to live in the spirit world after death in this world, would it save the world?

Rich men will still continue to be rich in the afterlife, and poor men will still be afraid that they may be still poor in the afterlife.

Or, people might think that it does not matter whether they are rich or poor in this world and they will all alike be happy in the afterlife with help and support from angels, etc.  So, it is stupid not to try to be rich while living in this world, since rich men and poor men will be happy in the afterlife.  Furthermore, people would think that there is no need for rich men to be afraid of judgement by the God after death.   

Therefore, the knowledge that there is the afterlife and people's souls will continue to live in the spirit world after death in this world does not necessarily make this world better or give salvation to poor people suffering in this world.  Rather, Satan seems to be trying to diffuse the notion that everybody will be happy in the life after death or in the spirit world, so that everybody should try to be rich and happy in this world.  However, Christ Jesus clearly said that rich men could not enter into Heaven but fall into the hell after death in this world.

The teaching of Christ Jesus that poor men can be accepted in Heaven but rich men should fall into the hell to be destroyed by the God is really good news for poor people suffering in this world.  In this teaching, it is implied that faithful men are poor and evil men are rich from a material view point.

In this context, Christ Jesus proclaimed that poor men should not be afraid of death, since the God loved them.  Since Christ Jesus launched his mission with this teaching 2000 years ago, very many poor people in the Roman Empire, later Europe, America, Africa, Asia, etc. came to believe in Christ Jesus.  Even today in the world, there are more than 2 billion people who believe in Christ Jesus, Christianity, or the Vatican.     

However, scholars, priests, preachers, and even the elite in the Vatican do not emphasize this simple teaching of Christ Jesus.  They do not even show their hatred against wealth, money, and worldly happiness and success that will lead them to the hell in the afterlife.  They mostly focus on love of ambiguous sort that must indicate their love to worldly happiness based on power and wealth under control of Satan.        

So, it is Satan's teaching that no matter good or evil one is, he can live happily in the spirit world after death in this world.  But Christians must believe that poor men, assumed to be faithful, would be welcomed in Heaven but rich men, assumed to be evil, should fall into the hell to be finally destroyed by the God.  


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Mark 8, King James Version
12 And he sighed deeply in his spirit, and saith, Why doth this generation seek after a sign? verily I say unto you, There shall no sign be given unto this generation.
13 And he left them, and entering into the ship again departed to the other side.
14 Now the disciples had forgotten to take bread, neither had they in the ship with them more than one loaf.
15 And he charged them, saying, Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, and of the leaven of Herod.

"The seed is the word of God" - Psychic Phenomena and Psi Phenomena Based on Faith in the God

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Psychic Phenomena and Psi Phenomena Based on  Faith in the God

One of impressive sayings of Christ Jesus concerning faith and miracles is :

20 And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you. (Matthew 17)

This saying is a key to understanding of spiritual power influencing on substance and material.  Although there have been many reports on psychic phenomena and psi phenomena, people related to such phenomena seem to lack faith in the God and Christ Jesus.

Basically, all substance and material in this universe was generated through the generation of this universe some 14 billion years ago.  In other words, there had been no material and substance before the generation of this universe.  However, there must have been the spirt world, Heaven, and the hell.  Otherwise, the spirt world, Heaven, and the hell were created at the same time or later when this material universe was created.  Therefore, spiritual force must take priority over physical force, so that it is no wonder that Christ Jesus who had come from the spirit world could perform many miracles that can not be scientifically explained.

However, since there is linkage between this material world and the spirit world, some people without faith might happen to acquire an ability to use spiritual power.  However, as they do not know why they can use spiritual power, their performance should remain as mystery.

In this context, the words of Christ Jesus are important, since they imply that faith has a special effect on believers.  They can work on material and substance by invoking spiritual power through their mind work based on faith in the God.  For example, it was reported that certain believers in Christ Jesus who had near-death-experiences came to have healing power to cure and heal sick men.  In some cases, they put their hands over sick men while praying that they would be healed.  The human body is made of material and substance, so that it must be possible that spiritual power can work on the human body.

There is a theory in traditional Chinese medicine such as Qigong that human spirit can work on the human body.  It is based on truth that this physical universe was generated through work of spiritual energy.  A trained master of Qigong seems to be able to invoke spiritual energy that can work on the human body even without faith in Christ Jesus or the God.

However, Christ Jesus encouraged believers to have faith in the God, so that they could have this supernatural power.  Indeed, if a man acquires the ability to invoke spiritual power to perform miracles without faith but by chance or through technical training, he may abuse it for his own interest but not for the God, which must be dangerous for the society.                   

The God should set a rule that only believers with faith in the God can invoke spirit energy to perform miracles.  This theory is reflected in the process of the Vatican to judge saints.  

Therefore, for the mankind to elucidate psychic phenomena and psi phenomena, faith in the God should increase and grow.  

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Luke 8, King James Version
11 Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.
12 Those by the way side are they that hear; then cometh the devil, and taketh away the word out of their hearts, lest they should believe and be saved.
13 They on the rock are they, which, when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no root, which for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away.
14 And that which fell among thorns are they, which, when they have heard, go forth, and are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to perfection.
15 But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.

"Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst" - Poverty, the Afterlife, and Heaven in Trinity

 

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Poverty, the Afterlife, and Heaven in Trinity

Now that almost everybody admits that there is the afterlife based on many reports on near-life-experiences, we have to focus on what Christ Jesus really wanted to teach us.

Even if men only believe that there is the afterlife, it would not save the poor, the unhappy, and the inflicted by the society.  Their poor, unhappy, and inflicted lives might continue to the afterlife after death in this world.   And, rich and happy men would try to continue their materially blesses lives even in the afterlife.  But, if poor, unhappy, and inflicted men know that they would be blessed in the afterlife to be accepted in Heaven, their souls should be saved.

To continue to be rich, happy, and successful in this world, men have to sell any part of their souls to Satan to be helped by it.  So, those who cannot sell any part of their souls at any critical moments in their lives should rejoice the God.  However, they should become poor and unsuccessful in this world under strong influence of Satan.  In other words, you cannot even earn one dollar unless you sell any part of your soul to Satan.

And, Christ Jesus said that good and faithful men could be accepted in Heaven while bad and faithless men should go to the hell.  But He emphasized that the measure with which to judge a man is good or evil is whether he is poor or rich.  Therefore, poor men are promised to be accepted in Heaven, which is really good news for poor men.

So, the focus of the teachings of Christ Jesus is not simply the existence of the afterlife but the fate or fact that poor and faithful men would be accepted in Heaven after death in this world.  Indeed, some philosophers tell that there is no need for good men to be afraid of their death.

Without believing the existence of the afterlife, Christianity, the teachings of Christ Jesus, or the Gospels are meaningless, nonsense, or simply a fairy tale.  Truly, there must be many priests or preachers who do not believe in the existence of the afterlife.  They must think that there is no way to prove the existence of Heaven and the hell, so that their unbelief cannot be disclosed or found.  They must believe in any profits or advantages of being priests or preachers in this world.  However, being poor or rich cannot be hidden.  As a result, they would not focus on or make people pay attention to this core of the teaching of Christ Jesus. 

There is the afterlife.  But, what is more important is the holy rule that only poor men can enter into Heaven in the afterlife.  Poverty, the afterlife, and Heaven are in trinity.  This trinity must have been able to be understood by unlettered poor fishermen, farmers, etc. who lived in Palestine 2000 years ago.         

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John 8, King James Version
8 And again he stooped down, and wrote on the ground.
9 And they which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, even unto the last: and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst.
10 When Jesus had lifted up himself, and saw none but the woman, he said unto her, Woman, where are those thine accusers? hath no man condemned thee?
11 She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more.
12 Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.

"some fell among thorns" - The Good News for the Poor while the Books of Curse for the Rich

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The Good News for the Poor while the Books of Curse for the Rich

The Christianity is based on the notion that there is the afterlife or the life after death, so that everybody should not be afraid of death in this world.  

However, the core of the teaching of Christ Jesus is not only this notion but also His declaration that everybody should go to either Heaven or the hell from the afterlife.  And the good and faithful are allowed to enter into Heaven while the evil are destined to go to the hell.   Furthermore, the poor are regarded as the good while the rich are regarded as the evil.  Therefore, Christ Jesus said to the poor to rejoice because they will be accepted in Heaven.

It is a revolutionary teaching that the poor in this world will surely enter into the Heaven while the rich in this world cannot.  It is also extended to the notion that the unhappy in this world will enter into the Heaven while the happy in this world cannot.  The lower classes in this world will enter into the Heaven while the elite in this world cannot.  The value system in this world is denied in the afterlife, and the value system is turned over in the afterlife.

That is why Christ Jesus lived as a kind of homeless preacher, so that He will be king in the spirit world.  That is why the God especially loves the poor, unhappy, and unsuccessful people in this world while Satan tries to capture souls of people by promising them to make them rich, happy, and successful.

In other words, tears the poor have in this world would turn to gold in Heaven while gold the rich have in this world would turn to trash in the hell.        

In this context, the Gospels are good news for the poor, the unhappy, and the unsuccessful in this world while they are books of course for the rich, the happy, and the successful in this world.

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Luke 8, King James Version
5 A sower went out to sow his seed: and as he sowed, some fell by the way side; and it was trodden down, and the fowls of the air devoured it.
6 And some fell upon a rock; and as soon as it was sprung up, it withered away, because it lacked moisture.
7 And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprang up with it, and choked it.
8 And other fell on good ground, and sprang up, and bare fruit an hundredfold. And when he had said these things, he cried, He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.
9 And his disciples asked him, saying, What might this parable be?
10 And he said, Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God: but to others in parables; that seeing they might not see, and hearing they might not understand.

"walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit" - A Spirit in the Form of a Soul within the Mind that Controls the Flesh

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A Spirit in the Form of a Soul within the Mind that Controls the Flesh

According to the Gospels, this world and the human beings are made of material or flesh and the spirit.  Even a man is made of the flesh or the physical body and the mind consisting of the internal soul, the intelligence, emotion, sensation, etc.

However, this whole material universe was originally generated from non-material energy called the vacuum energy as a result of the quantum physics effect.  So, it can be inferred that this material universe was generated from the spirit energy.  Therefore, it is no wonder that work of the human mind is based on the spirit energy.

Some scientists think that the human world is made of the world of the mind, the physical world, and the Platonic world, so that the human mind can assume the presence of ideal concepts while living in the complicated and concrete world.  Indeed, it is a kind of mystery that men can think of the God who is complete and perfect.

According to those who have near-death-experiences, the spirit world is more realistic that this material world.  What they saw in the spirit world in the sate of near-death was clearer and more vivid than phenomena in this world.  Even in the spirit world, there is no restriction of time and space.  It can be thought that it supports the supremacy of the spirit world over the material world.

The human body is started to be built from a single cell called a fertile ovum.  Eventually, a human body consists of scores of trillion human cells.  However, each cell is made of molecules, atoms, and elementary particles where the quantum physics effect works.  So it seems natural that some scientists focus on the quantum physics effect in their study on consciousness or work of the mind.

In this context, it should be noted that Christ Jesus made it clear that the spirit world, spirit entities, the holy spirits, and the God, who is also Spirit, are above the human world or the world of flesh. 

It is thought that a man's spirit is put inside its body in the form of a soul to make its mind work.  But when he dies, the soul is released from the body and mind to become a spirit so that it can enter into the spirt world that is closer to the God than the material world.  Therefore, spiritual entities living in the spirit world must have purer features than human beings in the material world.  And the ideal concepts must be realized in the spirit world. 

Especially, holy spirits must have special power and ability, since they directly come from the God.  On the other hand, material entities or men as flesh cannot easily understand reality, conditions, and states in the spirit world.  They are apt to purchase material interest like men have material desires.  Therefore, Christ Jesus blamed men for their misunderstanding of or nonconformity to holy teachings.

Anyway, everyone can understand that the God is not a material entity.  And, Christ Jesus said that the God is Spirit.  We have to admit that the God is at the most distant extension of our mind which includes a spirit in the form of a soul within the mind that controls the flesh.        

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Romans 8, King James Version
8 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
4 That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
5 For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.

"the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman" - For our Salvation in the Afterlife

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For our Salvation in the Afterlife

According to surveys conducted between 2017 and 2020, the ratios of people in major countries who believe in the existence of the afterlife or the life after death are as follows:

Turkey: 91.8%

Egypt: 88.1%

USA: 68.2% 

Chili: 61.8%

Taiwan: 57.2%

Thailand: 57.1%

Switzerland: 50.4% 

Italy: 49.4%

UK: 41.7%

France: 41.2%

Russia: 40.3%

Germany: 39.9%

Sweden: 37.8%

JAPAN: 32.2%

China: 11.5%

In Islamic countries, it is unlikely that ordinary people would rather express a view against their state religion Islam teaching the existence of the paradise and the God or the Allah.  So, it is no surprise that high percentages were shown in Turkey and Egypt.  

However, it is a little surprise that most of major European countries show less than 50% for those who believe in the afterlife despite existence of the Vatican in Europe.  In this context, the fact that more than two thirds of Americans believe in the afterlife is worth attentions.    

Generally speaking, in East Asian countries such as Taiwan and Thailand under strong influence of Buddhism, more than a half of each population believe in the existence of the afterlife.  However, in China under the Communist Party, people might not express their views supported by or linked to traditional religions.  And, as Japan is highly Westernized, even in another survey, only 40% of the Japanese believe in the life after death, although most of the Japanese accept Buddhism.     

If a medical doctor by himself observes a spirit of a certain dead man or his relative, like in the case of Elisabeth Kübler-Ross and Raymond Moody, he would be confident that the afterlife exists.  But, not all the medical scientists experience such spiritual phenomena. 

However, because the Gospels are based on the notion that there is the afterlife and this doctrine of Christianity has been supported by many people, including the Vatican, for 2000 years, this notion should be reliable.  Otherwise, we have to judge that there is no God and Christ Jesus is a liar, which cannot be accepted if we look back to the 2000 year history. 

Nonetheless, it is not easy for a living man to see the afterlife or spiritual entities who usually live in the spirit world except in the near-death-experiences, etc.　reported by Kübler-Ross, Moody, etc.  And, though since Socrates and Plato in ancient Greece the relationship between this world and the spiritual world has been focused on by scholars and scientists, the modern science has not succeeded in clarifying what the spirit world is or our consciousness is.

According to some medical scientists, a human being is made of the material body, sensation, emotion, intelligence, and a soul.  If a man dies in this world, a soul leaves the physical body to become a spirit that lives in the spirit world.  And a spirit will have a spiritual body with memory of life in the material world, according to the Bible.  And, it seems that spirts can communicate with living men in certain situations such as the case when the God allows it. 

Put simply, if the God approves, the mankind will be able to scientifically understand what the afterlife is or whether spiritual entities exist such as spirits of dead men, Angels, evil spirits, Satan, etc.  Till then, we have to read the Gospels and strengthen our faith in the God and Christ Jesus for our salvation in the afterlife.      　　        

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John 8, King James Version
8 Jesus went unto the mount of Olives.
2 And early in the morning he came again into the temple, and all the people came unto him; and he sat down, and taught them.
3 And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery; and when they had set her in the midst,
4 They say unto him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act.
5 Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned: but what sayest thou?
6 This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard them not.

"When he was come down from the mountain" - Study Spiritual Matters and Simultaneously Fight against Satan

 

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Study Spiritual Matters and Simultaneously Fight against Satan

The Gospels present some psychic phenomena as critical events showing power of the God and Christ Jesus in addition to miracles by Christ Jesus.

Sometimes the God's voices were heard by people around Christ Jesus.  Satan challenged Christ Jesus in the wilderness.  The spirits of Moses and Elias appeared in a mountain.  Devils got out of a certain mad man and eve from many swine.  The spirit of Christ Jesus appeared to some followers after His death on the cross and finally ascended to Heaven while His followers were watching.  And, the voice of Christ Jesus fell on St. Paul, which made him repent and convert to Christianity.

From the beginning, Christ Jesus was born by Mary who had become pregnant due to holy spirit.  And, after His death on the cross and ascension to Heaven, Christ Jesus as a spirit guided St. Paul, St. Peter, etc., while holy sprits came down to His followers hiding in Jerusalem so as to make them speak and praise the glory of the God in foreign languages other than Hebrew or Aramaic.

Indeed, without admitting existence of holy spirits, the Gospels cannot be understood.  Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (1926 - 2004) and Raymond A. Moody, Jr. (1944 -), medical scientists who contributed to the modern study on near-death-experiences and the afterlife, also reported that they had seen and communicated with some spirits of dead men.  Due to their works, the general public has somewhat come to acknowledge the existence of the spirit world and the life after death, which is revolutionary in a sense.

Looking back to the history, Emanuel Swedenborg who reported his communications with spirits in Heaven was born in 1688 when Sir Isaac Newton (1643-1727) whose major secret interest was study on the Bible was alive and active.  So, the great modern scholar in the spiritual domain and the great modern science pioneer shared the same period of history.  Or immediately before the age of scientific and industrial revolution, the God sent a great spiritual scholar to the human world.

What's more, as Albert Einstein was born in 1879 and died in 1955, Kübler-Ros and Moody shared some period of time with Einstein who had opened a new era of the modern science to override theories of Newton.

Therefore, when the human kind opened a new era with development of science and looked like forgetting sooner or later spiritual matters, the God sent some holy spirts to some scientists such as Swedenborg, Kübler-Ros and Moody, since they seemed to have some faith in the God or Christ Jesus.

Finally, we should remind ourselves that the Western civilization, including the modern science, in these 2000 years has been based on Christianity, which is based on teachings of Christ Jesus, and the Gospels reporting works of Christ Jesus are based on recognition of existence of spirits and the spirit world.

Put simply, this material world is under the spirit world controlled by the God who is said in the Bible to be also Spirit that governs other spiritual entities.  And, when men die, they leave their bodies in this world to enter into the spirit world, although evil men fall into the hell to be finally destroyed by the God.

Therefore, the God has been giving warnings to the mankind being absorbed in material wealth so as for them not to forget the spiritual matters and the spiritual meaning of the Gospels: Men can survive death in this world to live in the spirit world but only poor and faithful men can enter into Heaven.

However, there is one important issue: Satan also lives in the spirit world.  So, only faithful scientists who study spiritual matters and at the same time fight against Satan can be trusted.             

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Matthew 8, King James Version
8 When he was come down from the mountain, great multitudes followed him.
2 And, behold, there came a leper and worshipped him, saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean.
3 And Jesus put forth his hand, and touched him, saying, I will; be thou clean. And immediately his leprosy was cleansed.
4 And Jesus saith unto him, See thou tell no man; but go thy way, shew thyself to the priest, and offer the gift that Moses commanded, for a testimony unto them.

"the voice of the Lord came unto him" - Christianity: a Religion based on Immortality

 

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Christianity: a Religion based on Immortality

One of the most mysterious episodes described in the Gospels is the part on transfiguration of Christ Jesus in a mountain:  

Matthew 17, King James Version
17 And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart,
2 And was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light.
3 And, behold, there appeared unto them Moses and Elias talking with him.
4 Then answered Peter, and said unto Jesus, Lord, it is good for us to be here: if thou wilt, let us make here three tabernacles; one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias.
5 While he yet spake, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them: and behold a voice out of the cloud, which said, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him.
6 And when the disciples heard it, they fell on their face, and were sore afraid.
7 And Jesus came and touched them, and said, Arise, and be not afraid.
8 And when they had lifted up their eyes, they saw no man, save Jesus only.

As it is unthinkable that the Gospels include lies about Christ Jesus, since if there are any lies, Christianity itself should be doubted, any episodes should be interpreted as true actually, virtually, psychologically or subjectively for the followers of Christ Jesus, or otherwise miraculously.  The above episode should be true from a point of spiritual view.

Peter, James, and John must have opened their spiritual eyes to see the spirits of Moses and Elias that talked with Christ Jesus who had the spiritual ability to make communications with spiritual entities.  Christ Jesus must have evoked the spirits of Moses and Elias, and He also gave the spiritual ability to Peter, James, and John. so that they could see those spirits.

Because there were no others than Peter, James, and John at that time, this episode must be told to Gospel authors by one of them.  Therefore, they must have been confident that Christ Jesus could continue to live as a spirit in the spirit world like Moses and Elias even if He had been died or killed.            

In this context, it is no wonder that early Christians in the Roman Empire were not afraid of their death, since they must have known that they could live in the spirit world even if they had been killed.  This confidence gave extraordinary strength to them, and other people in the Empire must have been impressed with their strength in belief, so that many of them came to believe in Christianity.   

In other words, Christianity is a teaching or a religion based on immortality of human souls and spirits. 

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Acts 7, King James Version

29 Then fled Moses at this saying, and was a stranger in the land of Madian, where he begat two sons.
30 And when forty years were expired, there appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sina an angel of the Lord in a flame of fire in a bush.
31 When Moses saw it, he wondered at the sight: and as he drew near to behold it, the voice of the Lord came unto him,
32 Saying, I am the God of thy fathers, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Then Moses trembled, and durst not behold.

"no man laid hands on him" - The Simple Teaching to Poor People

 

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The Simple Teaching to Poor People

What did Christ Jesus actually tell to Jewish people in Palestine 2000 years ago to save them?  He did not tell any difficult theories of Judaism or on theology such as the Holy Trinity.  He should teach very basic truth to poor people who could not read and write.

Christ Jesus knew that poor people were desperate since there was no hope for them to become rich or get saved from pains and troubles in this world.  So, He told them that they could be saved in Heaven after death in this world.  As those poor people were assured that they would be welcomed and blessed by the God to be happy in Heaven, they should be glad to hear His words, so that the teachings of Christ Jesus were accepted and spread among poor people.  

Put simply, Christ Jesus told poor people in Palestine 2000 years ago that the God loved the poor instead of the rich so that He would accept them in Heaven.  As poor people found authority given by the God in Christ Jesus through miracles and other deeds Christ Jesus had performed, they trusted in those words of Christ Jesus.

Poor people who had no hope at all to be rich in this world would gladly accept the words of Christ Jesus that they would be happy in Heaven.  With belief in the words of Christ Jesus, they would never be desperately sad and sorry for their miserable lives in this world now that they were confident that they would be happy in Heaven after death in this world.

In other words, Christ Jesus taught simple truth to poor people:

1. Their souls continue to live in Heaven after death in this world.

2. They are loved by the God who would give them eternal life.

3. Rich men who have made them suffer in this world cannot enter into Heaven.      

As a result, poor men who heard and believed in the words of Christ Jesus stopped listening to Satan who told them to do any bad or evil things to be rich.  By saving poor people, Christ Jesus suppressed Satan, so that Satan all the more hated Christ Jesus and his believers.  In this sense, the fight between followers of Christ Jesus and those of Satan has continued for 2000 years up to date.

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John 7, King James Version

28 Then cried Jesus in the temple as he taught, saying, Ye both know me, and ye know whence I am: and I am not come of myself, but he that sent me is true, whom ye know not.
29 But I know him: for I am from him, and he hath sent me.
30 Then they sought to take him: but no man laid hands on him, because his hour was not yet come.

"being baptized with the baptism of John" - Revolutionary even Today among the Whole Mankind

 

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Revolutionary even Today among the Whole Mankind

For a man to have life after death is not so important as the issue of whether he is faithful or evil in this world. 

If the God tells men simply that their souls continue to live in the spirit world after their physical death in this world, they will not drastically change their ways of living.  Rich and evil men would try to be rich in an after life by any means.  Poor men should worry about a possibility that their poverty continues in an afterlife.

But, Christ Jesus not only gave assurance of existence of the afterlife but also made it clear that evil and bad men could not enter into Heaven but faithful and righteous men could, since there are Heaven and the hell in the spirit world called the afterlife.  And He also presented the measure to judge whether men were evil or righteous: being rich was taken as being evil while being poor was regraded as being righteous.

Therefore, Christ Jesus virtually proclaimed that rich men could not enter into heaven to get eternal life but fell into the hell to be permanently destroyed by the God, while poor men would be allowed to enter into Heaven to be given blessings and eternal life.  Put simply, materially happy men in this world cannot be accepted in Heaven, but materially unhappy men in this world can be welcomed in Heaven.

This teaching of Christ Jesus must have rejoiced poor people in Palestine and the Roman Empire 2000 years ago, so that the books about Christ Jesus activities are called the Good News (to poor men).  As there were many poor people in the ancient Roman Empire like in any other places and at any time, His teachings prevailed and the new religion Christianity was established, since Judaism had not presented such assurance about blessings to poor men in Heaven.

However, the focus in Christ's teachings is not only in that there is an after life but in that only the poor can be accepted in Heaven to become happy.  In other words, being faithful and righteous is more important than having an afterlife; being good is more important than life after death.         

Indeed, if evil men know that there is an afterlife, they will continue their evil ways to be rich in this world, since they think that their being rich in this world will not hinder them from getting rich again in an afterlife.  So, it can be understood that Christian churches have not emphasized Christ's assurance of existence of the afterlife.  

But, as Christ Jesus told that being poor was the condition to enter into Heaven, rich men, including rich priests and even the Popes, neglected the truth of His teachings or tried to hide the true meaning of His teachings, while poor believers found salvation in His teachings.  Anyway, Christ Jesus assured existence of the afterlife and, at the same time, made it clear that rich and happy men could not enter Heaven.  

 

In this sense, Christ Jesus was really revolutionary even in the Jewish society 2000 years ago and is so even today among the whole mankind. 

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Luke 7, King James Version
28 For I say unto you, Among those that are born of women there is not a greater prophet than John the Baptist: but he that is least in the kingdom of God is greater than he.
29 And all the people that heard him, and the publicans, justified God, being baptized with the baptism of John.
30 But the Pharisees and lawyers rejected the counsel of God against themselves, being not baptized of him.
31 And the Lord said, Whereunto then shall I liken the men of this generation? and to what are they like?
32 They are like unto children sitting in the marketplace, and calling one to another, and saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned to you, and ye have not wept.

"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.