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 that should probably read that his way, but not him, 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 with either the followers of other religions or those who have never heard of Jesus Christ? Do they, therefore, have no access to God? No matter how 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 had realized the importance of love because he lived in a very destructive time. According to the Bible, his greatest achievement was the sacrifice of his life to cleanse humanity of sin. With this, he demonstrated his love for people and the importance that love should have in people’s 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 show such a power that would clearly present that he is Son of God even though he made significant achievements. His sacrifice drew attention to his teaching. His teachings formed the Christian religion with which he had directed his followers, the Christians, to good. He became the most influential person of all time. Any man who under the influence of Jesus Christ accepted 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 that Jesus Christ is the only way to God because such an attitude released them from fear of uncertainty and that relieves their lives significantly. Jesus Christ, being the only way to God, also suited great manipulators as well. They follow the teachings of Jesus Christ and then interpret his words as it suits them. It often happens that fraudsters, criminals, and murderers call upon Jesus Christ to present their criminal path as the 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 all the people who are aggressive cannot be followers of Jesus Christ.
Love is the only right way, but under the influence of authorities not many people are able to recognize love. If you dear readers think that you know what love is, I have created a test that will answer whether 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 together with it, you book in your future at least the same amount of time spent in pain and suffering. It is a natural law that derives from the narcissistic character of people. Why is this so? A narcissistic man interprets all the success in his life as a form of overcoming his powerlessness in nature. Then he realizes the great fortune, but overcoming his helplessness in nature is mostly an illusion. The illusion of overcoming impotence in life sooner or later clashes with reality and then inevitably brings the pain. When a person admires himself, he is falling into a trap that leads to disaster.
People do not see it because they would otherwise have chosen a different path. The most successful people today usually suffer the most. 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 today in society. With such an experience no one can get to God the Father.
A man 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. At the time when Jesus Christ lived on Earth, building love was a matter of conscience. It was the only possible way of spreading the love. If people were conscious, they would be able to develop love by following Jesus, but humankind has shown that the conscience is not successful enough in creating love. That is why Jesus Christ was as successful as it was possible in the given circumstances.
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Love can be built unconditionally. I have come to the conclusion that love can be developed only by equal rights among people. Equal human rights are an essential condition for the creation of 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 positively assessed man, and every negative evaluation will result in a little punishment. Democratic anarchy will direct each member of society to create the highest possible advantages for the community and to diminish or abolish the creation of all forms of disadvantages. Technically, this is very much like love because love is based on indiscriminate concern for others and giving.
The system of evaluation that I have proposed has conceptual similarities with the Bible. The Bible has offered a solution that could form a good society through the golden rule: “Do onto others as you would have them do onto you!” But this sentence called upon the conscience of the people because at that time it could not count on anything else, and so the golden rule was quite helpless. So far people have not learned how to efficiently implement the golden rule. I’ve found it! The system of evaluation among the people will fully comply with the requirement of the golden rules. 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 be afraid of 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 of people that the system of evaluation offers through freedom and equality will by the 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 would unconditionally establish heaven on earth where evil will be deleted entirely. You can briefly learn what it is about in my article Humanism extensively. 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 gives hope for a better future of mankind, I have not managed to motivate interest from people so far in it. 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 the knowledge from parents, teachers, bosses, priests so that they did not learn how to recognize the truth on their own. Uncritically accepted knowledge is a set of information which 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 unconditionally followed, but they should be checked and respected if they deserve it. This also applies to me. I do not ask for anything else.
My theory is straightforward and relatively easy to check. One day the system I have proposed will be examined because there is no other good way. If the check-up of my work proves that I am right, does that mean that 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 is 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 for everlasting life.
The Internet site Beyond Today in the article What happens after death?, unconditionally confirms this hypothesis. They believe that after the return of Jesus Christ, God would create an entirely new material world in which people will achieve everlasting life. They cited a question from sceptical people who think that our lives are too painful and difficult enough so that why would anyone want to live forever? They answer to such people that God will make everlasting life better and more beautiful than our wildest hopes are. We can believe it or not, but it will not help us find the truth.
In nature, the matter constantly moves and passes from one state to another. Nothing is indestructible in the material world, neither diamonds, nor stars, and so man cannot be indestructible either. God should completely stop the motion of matter to give eternity to matter. 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, that would stop light so that such a world would not be visible. 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 that God will go that way. I’d say 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, because I was not there, or I do not remember that I was there. This is undoubtedly a severe blow to any chance that I might be Jesus Christ. Or maybe it is not?
A profound website 2001 Translation Bible that again translates the original Bible written in the Greek language, claims 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.” Due to the different meanings of related words in different languages, the translators of the Bible often freely interpreted the verses. Later in the article, they questioned: “Then, what will happen to the faithful?” The article offers this answer: “The Bible simply doesn’t tell us, but we can be confident that Jesus will never destroy those he loves.”
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The differences in understanding the Bible are considerable so that it is possible to accept very different interpretations that affect the very basis of the religion. What is most apparent, God created a man giving him an optimal life. Neither shorter nor longer lives are desirable because God knows the best what an optimal life for people is. If people would like to have good lives, they must respect the laws of nature that God created.
I am confident that God intended equal rights to men in society and that is what was never formed. That is the reason the history of humanity was so sad and destructive. People who are forced to follow the authorities because the authorities have power or people who follow the authorities because they are afraid of making an independent step are on the wrong track. Such people readily accept alienated values from God, such as money, power, or fame. Such needs are alienated from the nature of people and therefore cannot be satisfied. People who accept such values cannot be satisfied with their lives. From that emerges the widespread poverty of life regardless of what these people have achieved in their lives. They live unnatural, unfulfilled lives, and that is the reason they fear death.
People need to adequately meet the nature of their lives that God has given them. They need to accept a productive way of living and love that the Bible talks about, and even more my web site www.sarovic.com. People who live natural lives generally easily satisfy their needs, and at the time of their late life, they do not need anything anymore. Their soul is calm, and then they become free people in the broadest sense. The lives they lived are enough rewards to 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 man to himself by his own productive way of living. Who makes good, good will return to him and vice versa.
August 24, 2010
Continues on: What God Wants?
