Death: All is Left is Love

I don't want to be a downer, but have you ever wondered what truly happens after death?  We eventually, no matter how rich, famous or healthy we are, we will all return to the earth.

What is after that?

Depends on who you ask? Scientist, atheist, philosophers, and the religious have their accounts of how the body stays alive and where it rests once it completes its mission on earth.  No matter what their thoughts on about matter as absolute on earth, scientist and atheist must recognize that every person has a spirit body and a spirit mind and that it is eternal.

No matter if Communist make  a law requiring people to believe that material is all that exist and it came from nothing, the principle of the universe knows every person has a spirit and that spirit was created by a Subject - a Being.

This being has many names and also has emotion, will and intellect. If we are made in the image of God, this means God consists of both masculine and feminine.  He has a mind and a body which is the universe and humanity.  There is no denying this with words or philosophy, it is the absolute truth.  Science is recently finding out that everything has one Cause.  This cause is God.

Hallelujah.

A seeker for clarity would want to adjust this information for differences in religious belief or background by focusing on the teachings that these accounts hold in common.

One who seeks a higher truth might learn all philosophies and religious beliefs see that all religions have certain accounts that are similar.

All of them attest that the spirit world is governed by love, and the less light of love one has while living on earth, the lower the realm in which the person lives after death.  God is a God of love, who lives solely to love His children to the fullest.

Sadly, most people enter the spirit world riddled with sin.  God does not judge where each spirit resides in spirit world or give punishment, rather, the way one person lived on earth decides where they live in the spirit world.  The situation in which each spirit finds themselves after death is self made.

"The spirit world is where the internal fruits of one's earthly life become manifest. One brings to the spirit world the quality of character and love that one has manifested in earthly life, as well as the accumulated kindnesses and wrongs one has done to others. Earthly position, fame or reputation count for nothing. Love is all that matters."

Earth is the only place a person can grow the quickest.  Therefore, one should repent to their attachment to material possession and the pursuit of wanting power, giving into lusts and destructive self-gratifications.

One should prepare for heaven by living a lifestyle that is fit for heaven, by cultivating genuine love while disciplining the desires of the flesh. The love and light of heaven emanate from God; therefore, to prepare for heaven one should cultivate a spiritual life of faith and charity such that one can receive God's love.

One should prepare to enter the highest realm in spirit world by first having the lifestyle on earth fit for heaven by cultivating genuine love while disciplining the desires of the flesh.

Love and light of heaven comes directly from God.  To prepare for heaven, one should live a spiritual life that cultivates faith and charity that is readily able to receive God's love.

Unfortunately, conventional religious doctrines are thousands of years old and are not fully adequate enough to lead countless numbers of faithful believers on ultimately how to gain heaven and avoid hell.

Dr. Reverend Sun Myung Moon who authored the Completed Testament, the Divine Principle, his teachings are widely shared by sincere believers of many faiths who have found similar spiritual texts to be valuable guides for their spiritual life.

"We live in an age when God's truth is rapidly becoming known in all quarters."

An exhaustive list of the points of agreement and points of difference between these five accounts could fill many pages. Rather than enumerating them, there will be a brief assessment of each book's unique character and discuss in passing how its vision of the spirit world can help us better understand and appreciate Sang Hun Lee's special message.

The following is written by one of Father Moon's disciples, Andrew Wilson.  Sang Hung Lee, spiritualist communicates with those who have passed, has written accounts of his encounters with those in the spirit world who are working as missionaries for God's providence of restoration.

Wilson gives a brief assessment of books based on spirit world that help to explain Sang Hun Lee's special message:


The Liberation of Hell

"Swedenborg's greatest error as regards to his spiritual teachings lies in his assertion that those who are in the hells cannot be saved.

It is the testimony of several of the spiritual books in this study that the angels and spirits of heaven have been laboring constantly to bring the spirits of hell to repentance. It is not an easy task, for most of them are ignorant.

Lee writes:

'Spirit persons in the low levels don't know how their present, terrifying world of punishment will change. For them there is no hope and nothing to wait for. Only continual pain and suffering. Nevertheless, as Franchezzo declares to the poor merchant, '"There is hope even here [in hell], for hope is eternal and God in his mercy shuts none out from it." '

Ultimately, the liberation of hell is part of the Good News that will precede the establishment of the Kingdom of God on earth and in the spirit world. After all, how can the Kingdom of God be established on earth as long as the hell continue their baneful influence on the living?

Lee relates that all his spiritual activities are alive with this gospel:

"Now we lecture that the door of hell will be opened and hell will be liberated.""

This hope became a reality just on the eve of the publication of Life in the Spirit World and on Earth, when on June 13, 1998, Rev. Moon gave the blessing to the Communist leaders, the war criminals and the Korean Christian leaders who opposed God's providence whom Lee interviewed for the book. Now through the Marriage) Blessing, the spirits imprisoned in hell are being liberated and shown the way they can ascend to heaven.

Though the burden of their sins is still heavy and their indemnity course may be long, they can all see the light of blessing and respond to the hope of resurrection. Ultimately, hell will disappear and all spirits will become heavenly beings, to the joy of God who loves the prodigal and wishes only for his salvation. Then the omnipotent God will be all in all.

The Highest Heaven, the Realm of God's Love


Throughout this study we have been remarking on the contents of Life in the Spirit World and on Earth. Although it lacks the descriptive detail of Life in the World Unseen or the narrative power of A Wanderer in the Spirit Lands, it has its own special quality that makes it unparalleled as a work of spiritual literature.

Its quality derives from the fact that Sang Hun Lee goes to the spirit world representing the True Parents restored Adam and Eve as the Lord of the Second Advent). He has a mission to assist the True Parents in the liberation of the spirit world and the establishment of the Kingdom of Heaven. Stemming from this background and purpose, Life in the Spirit World and on Earth has several unique aspects.

For the first time in this book, one can glimpse life in the Kingdom of Heaven itself.

Heaven is a world of love. Everything about it exudes love - God's love and human love. These are the two most notable features of Lee's experience, which signify that he is at a higher level then the other reporters we have encountered.

Lee describes his personal relationship with God, who calls him by name, in the intimate form used in addressing a close family member, "Sang Hun-ah." He says,

I hear his voice clearly with my own ears. Then a brilliant, glittering, radiating and reflecting light appears in front of, behind and above my head. 

Amid the light, a streak of light, unidentified, captures my heart... my feeling is like the peacefulness when a baby in its mother's bosom meets the mother's eyes while listening to her heartbeat. Even this description cannot fully capture my experience. Then, as God's calling voice changes, the brightness of the beautiful light changes, and I go into an ecstatic state. My whole body seems to be melting. Then, suddenly, I am standing by myself: I cannot see God.

God's essence is love; his feeling is peace and rapture and joy; his appearance is as light.

Swedenborg described God as the Sun of the spirit world, whose light and heat radiate as love in gradations from the higher spheres to the lower spheres.'

But he did not experience God speaking to him or directly shining upon him, lifting him up into a rapturous state. Neither did the Monsignor in Life in the World Unseen experience anything like it; he and his friends could at best have a visitation from God's representatives, coming down periodically from the higher spheres.

When these visitors come down, they are accompanied by beams of light, beautiful music and wonderful sensations which fill the meeting hall for all to see and hear and touch.  Franchezzo occasionally hears mysterious voices, which always guide and instruct him. He never mistakes them for the voice of God, but knows them to be directions and guidance coming from the higher spirits who preside over his activities.

We can conclude, with Lee, that only in the highest heaven do people live with God on an intimate basis. This, Lee asserts, is the unique privilege of Unification Church members (who work for the Lord of the Second Advent mission to restore the world back to God:

The thing that is hugely different is the position in relation to God. Limits exist which determine how well people belonging to another religion can hear, feel or talk to God. But Unification Church members by all means reside in a position where they may breathe together with God.

Is this just a triumphalist theology? No. It is consistent with spiritual laws, as Lee goes on to describe the shame and punishment endured by even Unification Church members who commit sin. It is consistent with the meaning and value of the Blessing for cutting off the satanic lineage and bringing human beings into God's family.

Thus, by opening the gate of the Blessing to the whole world, the opportunity to live in the complete love of God has become available to all humankind.

The second dimension of love, human love, is dramatically experienced in heaven as nowhere else. When Lee arrived at his home in the spirit world, he and his wife had a new marriage.

"In heaven, husbands and wives make love out in the open air, with the grass and flowers swaying in rhythm, the birds singing accompaniment, and all nature rejoicing. God answers their love with rays of brilliant light pouring down upon the couple and with strains of beautiful music; He embraces them and adds His love to theirs. 

On earth people hide their love-making in the bedroom and would feel shame and embarrassment should anyone else happen to look in, but love in heaven is regarded as beautiful to behold.

Swedenborg also taught that the pinnacle of heavenly love is marriage. Yet not even he could describe fully from direct experience what heavenly love is like. He knew in general that intercourse between husband and wife in the spirit world is similar to that on earth, though more interior and purer.

But he did not know that it involved such a beautiful conjunction with the creation, nor that God Himself embraced the couple, nor that it is looked upon as a beautiful act which others can view without shame.

Yet Swedenborg did understand some things about conjugal love in heaven. He knew it had nothing to do with fornication or adultery, but must be chaste love for one spouse.  He knew that it is guided and governed by spiritual love, conjoined with God's love.

Hence he would assert what Lee experienced, that only those couples who had matured in their inner selves and who lived in accordance with God's will and desire (on earth first) can love each other in the true sense. There can be no deception or falsity.

There must be genuine trust, compassion and forgiveness between husband and wife for their love to be comfortable and harmonious - able to receive the fullness of God's love.


Return for Tomorrow's Post: Educating for True Love

This text given by Andrew Wilson from the textbook Journal of Unification Studies - Vol. II  based on the Rev. Sun Myung Moon's teaching of the Divine Principle.

Why Arranged Marriages Work

The movie below is an endearing movie about an arranged marriage during World War II that is realistic.  It gives an example of how two strangers who are committed to one another can fall in love after marriage. The interview that follows was featured on the Unification website recently because the teachings which this blog is based on supports arranged marriages.  I have personally known hundreds of individuals who have arranged marrriages that are American and live in America and have lasted over 20 to 30 years.  What I found personally is that when two people, even with different backgrounds, have the same goals, values and wants for the future, they will sacrfice their selfish needs for the whole - their family.  Unification Thought and the Divine Principle which is discussed throughout this blog teaches that individuals should live for the family and family lives for the sake of the society and society for the nation which will lead to world peace.  Instead, humanity chose to live for its own sake and chose their own brides and the world went in the opposite direction.  An arranged marriage is the ultimate sacrifice for an individual's next step, as it is solely done for the sake of their future family.  How many of us have made the wrong choices in relationships and keep going to another.  Wouldn't it be nice if we could take a step back from what an individual places in front of us as great and see all sides of this person, and put on the table what they bring to the relationship beyond good looks?  Who does that - who has the time to evaluate someone before they delve into a deep relationship or even marriage?  With divorce so easily accepted, we have gone from a society that lives for their children to people who will try someone out and divorce if it doesn't go the way they thought.  What does this have to do with world peace?  World peace starts with one person who learns love through family interactions.  The world is not made up of land, the society isn't made up of buildings, it is made up of people.  Families.  Just look at the beginning.  The whole world came to ruin by the very first parents and sons on earth.  There was infidelity and murder in the first of God's children set on earth.  To turn it around, God needs families to live for one another beyond selfish interest of a spouse that looks good.  The following interview gives insight into why more Americans are deciding to take this route through their religions and new traditions such as the Unification Church and the Mormons. It speaks about the science of love and how love can happen after marriage to create a strong bond.  Also, the studies conducted on love marriages and arranged marriages and how love grew or faded over time.

Dr. Robert Epstein Jack LaValley LaValley: Welcome, Dr. Epstein. I was very inspired to learn that you were exploring ways in which love can arise outside of romantic relationships, with which westerners are mostly involved. I myself was involved in an arranged marriage, and I happen to believe that the principles and insights within the culture of arranged marriages can make a significant contribution to people who want to be successful in their relationships. So, when I found your research about arranged marriages combined with your behavioral studies, studying how people can learn how to love, I felt the call to reach out to you and have an opportunity to learn from your research, which could really help people at this time. I want to start with the “science” part. Through the research that you’ve done, you say that science can help us fall in love. Could you tell us what you mean by that? Dr. Epstein: I mean two different things. As a scientist, I have been studying how love arises in arranged marriages, and I’ve been trying to figure out how that happens. It doesn’t happen in every arranged marriage, but it happens. Sometimes people are very conscious of wanting to build love over time. In Indian culture for example, they say, “First comes marriage, then comes love.” So, there is a consciousness there that it is possible to build love. I’ve been studying this by interviewing people in arranged marriages, having them fill out certain forms and analyzing the data. The other part is that for decades western researchers have been studying processes in which emotional bonds are created. In the laboratory, you can actually get two total strangers to suddenly like each other or even love each other in just a few minutes by putting them through various exercises. We don’t have to leave our love lives entirely to chance. We can do A and B all the way up to Z and be very deliberate about building love in our relationships. There’s a huge advantage to figuring this out, because this means that there’s a possibility for us in the West, for the first time in hundreds of years, to actually get together with someone who’s suitable for us and build love over time with that person. LaValley: I’m sure everybody wants to make the right choice and have it work out the first time. You said that in various exercises and activities people were able to experience feelings of love. Could you give us a couple examples of what happened and how that manifested? Dr. Epstein: I did a course a few years ago at the University of California in San Diego that was on this topic, and I thought it would be fun for the students to see how this process of deliberately building love works. So, I would bring people up to the front of the room in pairs or I would ask people in the audience to turn to their neighbor and do the exercises. In every exercise I asked the students, “On a scale of one to ten, how much do you like this person, how much do you love this person, how much are you attracted to this person, how close do you feel to this person?” We’d get the numbers before we’d do the exercise, then after the exercise. The results were just spectacular. The simplest exercise of all, I called “soul-gazing.” You simply look very deeply into the person’s eyes and you try to look past the flesh, deep into the person’s soul. Doing that for just two minutes dramatically increases the four measures of emotional bonding. You can actually get people to feel much closer to someone in just two minutes. So that’s the simplest of the exercises. You can get bigger results with other exercises. LaValley: Did any of the students in the exercise fall in love with each other and get married? [Laugh] R: I didn’t really track that for this particular course, but it turns out that in the published literature on this topic, the very first couple [that participated in such an experiment] by this researcher named Arthur Aaron fell in love and got married. So I have no doubt that I created a lot of deep, long-term relationships in that course. LaValley: That’s very interesting. You mention in your study of arranged marriages cases in which love has grown over time. You mentioned a few elements you found. Could you talk about those? The Power of Commitment Dr. Epstein: I’ve done two studies now on people in arranged marriages. In the first one, I ask them open-ended questions just to get them to talk. This was an exploratory study on my part; no one’s ever looked at how love arises in arranged marriages. We do know that when it does arise it might even be more stable than the kind of love that emerges in love marriages. There’s a very interesting study done in India comparing the love in “love” marriages to the love in arranged marriages that found something quite spectacular. In the love marriages, there’s a lot of love at first, but then it weakens over time. In arranged marriages, there’s not that much love at first, but it tends to grow over time, and it surpasses the love in the love marriages about five years out. Ten years out it’s twice as strong. So, in my first study I simply ask people in arranged marriages, “How much did you love your spouse when you got married? How much do you love him or her now? What do you think happened that made the love grow?” The second study is more rigorous and is mainly conducted online at a website called arrangedmarriagesurvey.com. In this study we’re comparing 36 different factors that might contribute to the growth of love over time. In both studies, the biggest result or insight we got was that commitment is a factor that seems most responsible for the growth of love. That has to mean real commitment, not the kind we so often make in our marriages here, almost as if we’re keeping our fingers crossed behind our backs. Real commitment meaning, “I’m really going to be with you through thick and thin, through sickness and in health.” This has led me to develop a theory called the Vulnerability Theory of Emotional Bonding. These factors make people feel vulnerable to the other person and two people feeling vulnerable at the same time brings them together. So the reason commitment is so powerful in creating an emotional bond is because it’s the ultimate expression of vulnerability. When you make a strong commitment to be with someone no matter what, what you’re saying is, “I am entirely vulnerable to you. No matter what is happening, I will be there for you.” And if two people are making that kind of expression of commitment to each other, that brings people very close, and if they each live up to the commitment, that brings them even closer over time. I was interviewing a highly-educated woman from Pakistan and I said to her, “On a scale of one to ten, where one is the lowest and ten is the highest, how in love were you with your husband the day you got married?” She said, “Zero.” I asked, “How in love are you with him now?” and she said, “Eleven.” I asked, “How long have you been married?” and she said, “45 years.” Keeping Expectations Realistic LaValley: I want to flesh this out a little more. People go before a priest or rabbi or minister and read the vows that explicitly state, “Through sickness and in health, for better or for worse,” but do they actually not know how to make the commitment? Do people not know what that means when they enter into marriage and utter those words? Dr. Epstein: Close to 50 percent of first marriages fail. Two thirds of second marriages fail, and almost three-quarters of third marriages fail. Practice doesn’t help us, apparently. You have to realize that when people utter those words, they actually mean them – at the moment. Generally speaking, people have high hopes when they’re going into it. Where it all falls apart is in regards to expectations that people have in marriages. The notion that we get from movies and fairytales and novels say that love lasts forever, that the person you marry is the one, your soul mate and that you live happily ever after. We have the notion that the good feelings will continue. All those expectations are wrong. People I’ve interviewed in arranged marriages laugh at us, because we’re so naïve about what happens over time in a relationship. We go in with very unrealistic expectations and in a few years we’re disappointed, our expectations have not been met, and we often say, “I made a mistake, and you’re just the wrong person.” We wake up one day and we say, “Who are you?” or “You’ve changed.” And that’s all nonsense. First of all, if we went in with the realistic expectation that we actually have to do some work to keep the relationship going and make it strong over time, that would help a lot. The other issue is that we’re so blinded with love at first, we really don’t know the person we’re marrying. The strong emotions that we have sometimes make us blind to the characteristics of our partner. LaValley: Arranged marriages usually take place in religious environments, with people of the same faith, and they know that they’re going to get married because they want to have children, they expect love to grow in the family context and they’re often not overly fantasizing about what it’s all supposed to look like. They’re more practical and down to earth in some respect. Dr. Epstein: I agree completely. They have much more realistic expectations heading into it. Very often, because they’re immersed in a certain community, they have role models around them. Sometimes the parents are in successful arranged marriages themselves. And they have the support from that religious community or cultural niche that they’re in. So, there are a lot of factors regarding why they’re almost certainly going to do better than love marriages. [One survey said that] in India, roughly 90 percent of the people were arranged, and the country had one of the lowest divorce rates in the world, even though divorce was legal there. I do not believe that in the U.S. we’re ready to embrace arranged marriage, but I do think we can learn a lot from what happens in successful arranged marriages. Marriage: An Adventure in Getting To Know Each Other LaValley: You say in the West we fail partly because we enter into relationships with poor skills for maintaining them, and we have highly unrealistic expectations. We pick unsuitable partners, mistakenly believing that we are “in love” simply because we feel physical attraction. In a way it seems almost to be a cruel trick of nature. Without these chemicals’ beings released and these euphoric highs, many people wouldn’t feel attracted to begin with, but when they do, they want to bond. But what you’re saying is that’s essentially part of the problem. Dr. Epstein: It does seem like cruel trick. Here’s this person that makes butterflies in your stomach and that person’s not a good partner for you. Those butterflies mislead you. I spent several years developing a test of compatibility; it’s online now at areyougoodtogether.com. It’s the most comprehensive compatibility test that’s ever been developed and it’s possible for two people who like each other or are in love to take the test. I’ve taken it with my wife, with four ex-girlfriends, and it’s very illuminating, because it shows you where your partner does and does not meet your most important relationship needs. It gets things right on the table, right up front, right now. Sometimes you’re with the wrong person, sometimes you’re with someone with potential but there are road blocks. You have to make a plan and fight the demons that might destroy your relationship. LaValley: But that requires a certain level of maturity and consciousness where both partners can actually sit down and have that sort of give and take. I think that goes back to how two people who are in love with each other go about making a commitment. You said it’s more than just uttering the words at the altar. There needs to be time spent beforehand getting to know each other. Dr. Epstein: Yes, but also the recognition that when you make a marriage commitment, that process of getting to know the person is going to continue. You have to understand that people keep changing, people are very complex, and that process is going to continue. For one couple I had in my study, one reason their love is developing over time is because they’re committed to getting to know each other. That’s partly what their marriage has been – an adventure in getting to know each other. And I really like that image. Again, we have these illusions that we’re in love because we know the other person. That’s simply not true. There’s actually laboratory research about people who are deeply in love and who are blind to the very important characteristics of the other person. LaValley: Speaking for myself, it’s harder for me to know me. Dr. Epstein: Exactly. That’s so well put. Over the course of our own lives we’re learning about ourselves. Eastern Practices vs. Western Practices LaValley: Some authors and researchers talk about this primary fantasy many people have, and if they’re not able to get beyond that fantasy, as you were saying earlier, it’s very likely that the relationship will go through hard times. [The primary fantasy is a term that refers to the idea that there will be a certain type of person who will magically appear in one’s life with whom the subject will fall in love and remain in love forever.] Dr. Epstein: But I think there are solutions here to these problems. If you think back to the 1950s, 1960s, generally speaking, we knew nothing about eastern methods of meditation and yoga and tai chi, and so we had very limited ways in which we could work on our wellbeing and peace of mind. One of the main ways was drinking alcohol, actually – we had few, positive, constructive ways of altering our wellbeing. But groups like the Beatles and the Beach Boys brought pieces of eastern culture into western culture, wonderful techniques for creating a sense of wellbeing. We didn’t adopt the religion, the culture – we adopted the practices. I think we can learn from successful arranged marriages and adopt the practices. We can use our heads a little bit more, looking beyond just the physical characteristics, and then we can develop skills and an awareness that can help us not only keep love going but also make love deeper over time. LaValley: I completely support that perspective. I want the romanticism that involves men and women coming together in love, and I also want it to be deeply rooted, so it’s able to grow over time. My wife and I entered into our relationship with shared expectations, similar values and compatible world views. Some of these insights and lessons that arranged marriages can teach us are deeply embedded within the cultural context that’s still very unfamiliar to westerners. But I think pulling those things out and putting them in a way that people can get their heads around can really benefit the enterprise of marriage significantly. Dr. Epstein: I feel very strongly that this can be done, and I have found some ways to get the word out. In 2010, Maria Shriver invited me to be one of the speakers at a conference of 14,000 women. Michelle Obama spoke there and so did Oprah Winfrey. Maria herself entitled my talk “It’s Time To Take Control Over Your Love Life.” I focused on what I call the “last form of empowerment for women,” because women have made a lot of progress in education and in the work domain, but still are victims to fairytales and fantasies that end up hurting them and their families. I asked the women to believe in a better fantasy, which is that you can take control over your love life, you can be with someone you’re compatible with, and the two of you can build love that will actually get stronger over the years. I become more convinced over the years that this can be done, and it would help millions of people create a stability that we have lacked for many decades. LaValley: I resonate with that because in my case, it was a choice. I chose to love the woman I’m currently with. Dr. Epstein: That very strong commitment you made, which was the commitment to open your heart, is a choice people can make. We’ve got to increase that awareness and give people the tools that they need so they can do what you have done, and what millions of people do, because most marriages around the world are still arranged. We have to use our heads more than we have been using, not just our heart and certainly not just our reproductive organs. We have to be a little more conscious of who it is we’re getting together with, and we have to be a little more realistic about what’s going to happen in the future. We have to be open to the idea that we can take control over what happened, that we can not only be in love but that we can build love, make love stronger over time. Dr. Epstein’s website can be found at: drrobertepstein.com Return For Tomorrow's Post: Why Doesn't God End Evil? Robert Epstein, former editor-in-chief of Psychology Today and a Ph.D. in psychology of Harvard University, exchanges ideas on the topic of arranged marriages with Jack LaValley, founder of true4ever, an information-based business that helps men and women learn how to create romantic partnerships that grow in love and intimacy over a lifetime. Dr. Epstein is the authorof Teen 2.0: Saving Our Children and Families from the Torment of Adolescence; The Case Against Adolescence: Rediscovering the Adult in Every Teen; and The Big Book of Creativity Games: Quick, Fun Activities for Jumpstarting Innovation.

Jesus's Murder Prolongs World Peace

This is probably the hardest post I have ever placed out there.  I have been waiting for over a month when this would be appropriate to share with the world. If Jesus being married and 'too holy' for sex is controversial, it is a topic that is handled with God's guidance in my community and other Christian's who have the eyes to see.  Before there are any complaints, or arguments, one should read all accounts.

 

Jesus Death Not First Choice 

First let's get all the points that we know that Jesus had to die to rectify the sin of humanity, but this was not God's first choice. Secondly, if death was not the first reason Jesus planned to bring Peace on earth then what was God's first choice?  Third, if Jesus' crucifixion is a murder don't you think this explains why the Jews losing their land thereafter, and their persecution ever since makes sense to indemnify the mistake of killing God's son instead of following him?  Imagine, this is such a touchy subject that the heat still rises from it 2000 years later!  A lie does not become truth just because it is repeated over time; eventually the truth will come out.  God promised that the Last Days was such a time.

 

The kitchen just became a little too hot for my comfort, but as one of God's messengers, when he tells you to spread His word, you do as He commands, and sometimes it is in your own time.  I have been spreading this word and living by the principles that led to this finding that should not even be controversial at all. 

 

My only understanding is that when people find out the truth of the bible, sort of decode God's point-of-view of the bible, people become awakened from satan's grip.  Therefore, the reason why so much craziness surrounds Jesus supposed marriage and crucifixion is because once the truth is out, followers and non followers will work hard to bring about God's reason for bringing Jesus in the first place - Peace on Earth.

Murdered?  Say What?

Every Christian is taught since birth that Jesus has died for their sins.  Yes, Jesus does deliver us from our sins by taking the hit from Satan and dying for us.  Who can argue the fact that Jesus was able to win the spiritual battle of satan after enduring temptations, but humanity still bore sinful children and are covered in sin - who denies this plot hole in the story of Jesus?

Does this sound like a complete mission? 

We must return to the cross and look at it in another way.  From God's standpoint of restoring His children to His bosom.  Why would Jesus say 'it is finished' when sin is still left on the earth? 

If it was because he planned to come back in our time, it doesn't make sense.  Why wait 2, 000 years for people to become more evil before saving us again?  Because he is waiting for 144,000 people who are righteous enough to go to heaven?  Are you kidding, you don't really believe that Jesus will come back for just a few people after counting the saints who already died.  If that's the type of God we are pushing these days, I understand the rise of atheism.

If this god exist that is okay with just living forever with only 144, 000 and be damned with the trillions of other of HIS children burning in hell, then I don't believe in that god either.  People believe that a fallen human will fight to the death for their children, yet a perfect God is going to let his children die in hell for eternity?  Why have we accepted satan's lie so steadfastly?!!!!

Others may say Jesus said it is finished because of free will.  Okay.  Let's go with this argument?  What if we still have sin on earth because we choose to follow satan's way and refuse the way of the cross? 

Well, in history, God sent saints and prophets and spiritual leaders to lead people back to the path of God, and each had failed their missions of the providence even causing more headache for God and suffering that had to be reversed.  Many religious leaders and kings in the past had the authority of the Messiah over the people to lead them back to God's Will, yet they chose to lead a way of selfishness and of the flesh.  Is this why sin still exist after the salvation of the cross?

Take a closer look at the bible and you will see God has been crying, struggling to bring us back after Jesus' death through leaders, saints who have failed God's will.

Then we have to look at devout Christians, and look at those who are a living sacrifice who turn from the worldly ways, why do they still have to fight sin? 

St. Paul said that he delighted in serving the lord faithfully with his mind, but had the dissatisfaction of following the ways of Satan with his body.  How could this be?  Is there any hope if even those who wish to follow God have to fight a downhill slope toward hell forever?  What was the reason behind the cross if we still live in sin and have to wait to die to find salvation?  Only spiritual salvation?


Jesus's Mission Was Incomplete

Jesus took on the burden of shedding blood to save humankind, we hear this all through our religious life and you be damned for asking how.  Right? 

Of course there are processes of God that man will never know because he is infinitely big as well as well as small, yet humans are the same as a limited container.   We will not be able to understand the totality of God, but He said in the Last Days that everything would be revealed and He would no longer speak to us in symbols.

On the other hand,  knowing the how of Jesus dying on the cross, and why it left his mission incomplete can save millions of people who have accepted that our life of struggling with sin and connecting to God only through a mediator will absolutely without fail continue for eternity.  It will not.  God wants Heaven on Earth and He be damned if He doesn't bring it about.

Then the question comes, why doesn't He just bring Peace now or at the time of the fall.  Here in plays the free will and the 5% responsibility God gives humanity.

Once we understand that the path to salvation was to include physical salvation as well as spiritual, then we can see God's handiwork throughout the ages to save us from any further attachments to satan including having children free from inherited sin.

One blaring evidence that something was left undone at the cross is the fact that sin still exist.  So why are we still born with sin and pass sin on to our children?  Free Will?  So, we believe that a newborn baby chose to be born into sin?


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Today's post was taken from the teachings of The Divine Principle written through immense research of 9 years of the bible.