Everlasting life?
According to John (14:6), Jesus Christ said: “I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.” This is probably a free interpretation of Jesus’ words, which should probably read that his way is the only way to God the Father. The formal difference between these two claims is insignificant, but mostly it is tremendous. I think it is wrong to expect that only followers of Jesus Christ can reach God. What would happen in that case to followers of other religions or to those who have never heard of Jesus Christ? Would they therefore have no access to God? No matter how much God loves His Son Jesus Christ, it would be unfair, and God is just.
The path of love that Jesus Christ preached was well known before him. Jesus Christ understood the importance of love because he lived in a destructive time. According to the Bible, his greatest achievement was sacrificing his life to cleanse humanity of sin. With this, he demonstrated his love for people and the importance of love in their lives. But that sacrifice is not enough to prove his divine origin. In human history, many people have sacrificed their lives in the name of ideas they believed in.
Giordano Bruno, for example, was burned at the stake because he could not oppose his view of the universe. Jesus Christ, during his lifetime, did not demonstrate power that clearly indicated he was the Son of God, even though he achieved significant things. His sacrifice drew attention to his teaching. His teachings formed the Christian religion, which he directed his followers, the Christians, toward. He became one of the most influential people in history. Anyone who, under the influence of Jesus Christ, accepts love together has accepted the way to God the Father.
But how did Jesus Christ become the only way to God? It suited devoted believers well to believe that Jesus Christ is the only way to God because that attitude released them from fear of uncertainty and significantly relieved their lives. Jesus Christ, as the only way to God, also suited great manipulators. They follow the teachings of Jesus Christ and then interpret his words to suit them. It often happens that fraudsters, criminals, and murderers call upon Jesus Christ to present their criminal path as proper and become the most influential people in society. President George W. Bush is one of those people. Jesus Christ will never bless aggression, so aggressive people cannot be followers of Jesus Christ.
Love is the only right way, but due to the influence of authorities, not many people can recognize it. If you, dear readers, think you know what love is, I have created a test to see if you’re right. The test is in my article Do You Love?
Today, people often confuse love and narcissism, and it is very wrong. Love is good, and narcissism is bad. If you spend a lot of time admiring your beauty, power or wealth, then you are narcissistic. Such admiration brings you pleasure, but it also books at least as much future time for pain and suffering. This is a natural law that derives from people's narcissistic character. Why is this so? A narcissistic person interprets all the success in his life as a form of overcoming his powerlessness in nature. Then he realizes that the great fortune of overcoming his helplessness in nature is mostly an illusion. The illusion of overcoming impotence in life will inevitably clash with reality and bring pain. When a person admires himself, he is falling into a trap that leads to disaster.
People don't see it because they would otherwise choose a different path. The most successful people today usually endure the most challenges. They take medication and abuse alcohol to reduce the pain that haunts them. Pain makes them very destructive to themselves and to their environment. Then life turns into hell. This is precisely the situation we have in society today. With such an experience, no one can get to God the Father.
A person who learns to love possesses a successful vaccine against narcissism and cannot fall into its fatal trap. If society as a whole learns how to love, it would no longer have problems. That is why Jesus Christ taught people to love. In the name of spreading love, He has invited people to do good, to avoid sin and to pray to God. When Jesus Christ lived on Earth, building love was a matter of conscience. It was the only possible way of spreading love. If people were truly conscious, they could develop love by following Jesus, but humankind has shown that conscience is not enough to create love. That is why Jesus Christ was as successful as possible under the circumstances.
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Love can be built unconditionally. I have concluded that love can develop only through equal rights among people. Equal human rights are essential to creating love.
I have created the most significant improvement of society in the history of mankind by using the system of evaluation among the people. Each person will have an equal right to evaluate the activity of any other person. Each positive assessment will automatically bring a small prize to the person being assessed, and every negative evaluation will result in a small punishment. Democratic anarchy will direct each member of society to create the greatest possible advantages for the community and to diminish or abolish all forms of disadvantage. Technically, this is very much like love because love is based on indiscriminate concern for others and giving.
The evaluation system I proposed has conceptual similarities to the Bible. The Bible offers a solution for building a good society through the golden rule: “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you!” But this sentence called upon the conscience of the people because, at that time, they could not count on anything else, and so the golden rule was quite helpless. So far, people have not learned how to implement the golden rule efficiently. I’ve found it! The system of evaluation among the people will fully comply with the requirements of the golden rule. It will remove evil and build a paradise on earth.
With the establishment of equal rights, people will get equal power in society, and that will create equal respect among people. People will no longer feel superior to others and will not fear other people. The system of evaluation will teach people that no matter what kind of success they achieve in their lives, they cannot forget that they are equal members of society. It will liberate people from narcissism and enable the development of love. The productive orientation the system of evaluation offers through freedom and equality will, over time, create unconditional love among people. With the help of technology, I have created a far more efficient way to introduce and spread love than Jesus Christ could have accomplished.
When people accept my system, they will unconditionally establish heaven on earth where evil will be deleted entirely. You can learn more about it in my article Humanism. All people will be able to love, and as such, they will all probably go to God the Father in another world, where they will achieve everlasting life.
Even though my work offers hope for a better future for mankind, I have not managed to motivate people's interest in it so far. To attract attention to my work, I even asked, "Am I Jesus Christ?" and even that did not bring success. Why is that? People are forced to accept knowledge from parents, teachers, bosses, and priests, so they do not learn how to recognize the truth on their own. Uncritically accepted knowledge cannot contribute to understanding. That is why people cannot understand my work.
Authorities do not like my work because it takes away their privileged power. That is the reason the bright future of humankind is stopped. To make any progress in society possible, people must be free from the yoke of authorities. Authorities should not be followed unconditionally, but they should be checked and respected when they deserve it. This also applies to me. I ask for nothing else.
My theory is straightforward and relatively easy to check. One day, the system I have proposed will be examined because there is no better way. If checking my work proves I am right, does that mean I am Jesus Christ? If I’m not Jesus Christ and my philosophy makes heaven on earth, then is the Christian religion pointless?
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The survival of the Christian faith depends on whether Jesus Christ was resurrected three days after his death. His resurrection would confirm everlasting life, which is one of the fundamental postulates of the Christian religion. According to the Bible, all people who believe in Jesus Christ are assigned everlasting life.
The Internet site Beyond Today, in the article What happens after death?, unconditionally confirms this hypothesis. They believe that after Jesus Christ returns, God will create an entirely new material world in which people will achieve everlasting life. They cite a question from skeptics who think our lives are already too painful and challenging, asking why anyone would want to live forever. They answer such people that God will make everlasting life better and more beautiful than our wildest hopes. We can believe it or not, but it will not help us find the truth.
In nature, matter constantly moves and passes from one state to another. Nothing is indestructible in the material world, neither diamonds nor stars, and so a person cannot be indestructible either. God would have to stop the motion of matter completely to give it eternity. This means he would have to stop atoms and the whole universe. I would easily say that this is impossible if the Bible does not state that God is omnipotent. But if he did it somehow, it would stop light, making such a world invisible. The stopped motion would stop breathing. This means that the everlasting material life would cease, the life that God had created. I do not believe God would do that. For this reason, most Christians believe that everlasting life rests in the spiritual world.
Even though I applied for the position of Jesus Christ, unfortunately, I cannot say anything about another world, as I was not there, or I do not remember being there. This is undoubtedly a severe blow to any chance that I might be Jesus Christ. Or maybe it is not?
The 2001 Translation Bible, a profound website, translates the original Bible written in Greek and asks in the article, "Does the Bible promise everlasting life?" They answer, “The fact is, it doesn’t… at least, not in those exact words. Why not? Because the Greek word that other Bible translators render as ‘everlasting’ (aionos) doesn’t mean that. It’s what we get the English word “eon” from, and it means a long time.” Because related words have different meanings in different languages, Bible translators often interpreted verses freely. Later in the article, they questioned: “Then, what will happen to the faithful?” The article answers: “The Bible simply doesn’t tell us, but we can be confident that Jesus will never destroy those he loves.”
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Differences in understanding the Bible are considerable, allowing for interpretations that affect the very basis of the religion. Most apparent is that God created a person and gave them an optimal life. Neither shorter nor longer lives are desirable because God knows best what an optimal life is for people. If people want good lives, they must respect the laws of nature that God created.
I am confident that God intended equal rights for people in society, and that is what was never realized. That is the reason the history of humanity was so sad and destructive. People who follow authorities because they have power, or who follow them out of fear of taking an independent step, are on the wrong track. Such people readily accept alienated values from God, such as money, power, or fame. These needs are alienated from human nature and therefore cannot be satisfied. People who accept such values cannot be satisfied with their lives. From this emerges the widespread poverty of life, despite what these people have achieved. They live unnatural, unfulfilled lives, and that is the reason they fear death.
People need to live in a way that fits the nature God has given them. They need to embrace a productive way of living and the love that the Bible talks about, and even more, my website www.sarovic.com. People who live natural lives generally satisfy their needs easily, and in their later years, they do not need anything anymore. Their soul are calm, and then they become free people in the broadest sense. The lives they lived are enough reward for them. Such people are not afraid of death because they know they have not missed anything in their life.
If everlasting life occurs after this, and if that life would be better than our wildest dreams, as Christian authorities claim, then such a life would be welcomed. In this world, salvation brings each person to himself by his own productive way of living. Whoever does good will receive good in return, and vice versa.
August 24, 2010
Continues on: What God Wants?