My Belief's

On this page I would like to give some of my thoughts. Kind of like "thinking out loud" why I believe "following Jesus" is superior to all other religious beliefs and teachings.

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Love:                           Love is the most used term in the Bible. The Greek language has three words for love:

                                         Agape - God's love, Philo - Brotherly love, Eros - Sexual love.

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Agape Love is the love most emphasized in the Bible, here are just a few verses:

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"God is love". I John 4:8, 16 "Love your God with all soul...." Deutoronomy 6:5, Matthew 22:37, Mark 12:30, Luke 10:27

"Love your neighbor as yourself" Matthew 22:39 "Love your enemies" Matthew 5:44 "For God so Loved the world" John 3:16

"Greater love hath no man than this, then to lay down one's life for his friends" John 15:13

"God showed His love for us, in that while we were still sinners, Jesus(God's Son) died for us" Romans 5:8

"This is real love--not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son(Jesus) as a sacrifice to take away our sins(bad karma)." I John 4:10

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One day Jesus was asked what is the greatest commandment.

Jesus replied, "Thou shalt Love the Lord your God with ALL your heart, soul, mind and strength and love your neighbor as yourself is the second commandment." Mark 12:28-34

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Let's say you had one child, a son who you loved more then anything else. Would you send your only, beloved, 

innocent, sinless child to die in my place, especially if I was guilty of more bad karma then good. Would you

sacrifice your son for a murderer, a thief, an adulterer, a rapist, for someone who hates your son?

                                                                  But that is exactly what God did.

Jesus did not die for "good people", Jesus willingly gave Himself for "bad people", which is who you and I are. 

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In my reseaching Hinduism I have not found that kind of love. Love in Hinduism seems more focused on "eros" or pleasurable love. Does Brahman love you? Do any of the countless deities love you?

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HOPE:

In the Bible, HOPE is not the concept of wishful thinking like, "I hope I win Mega Bucks". In the Bible, Hope is "confident expectation", a firm assurance concerning unclear or unknown. Instead of presenting Bible verses I would like to share what my hopes are, which I believe would be what all followers of Jesus believe also.

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All believers in Jesus HOPE to one day be united WITH God, not into Brahman. Jesus told us, "I go to prepare a PLACE for you, that where I am you may be also." Jesus was speaking of His Heaven. Heaven is a "prepared place" for a "prepared people". I will still be me, I will be conscious of my surroundings, I will know and recognize Jesus, meet Old and New Testament believers, believers throughout the centuries, people I knew who have died before me. I will be aware of my circumstances.

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I will see my father and mother again, other relatives and friends, former Sunday School teachers and youth workers, etc., etc. Sadly not everyone but only those who believed on Jesus as the Bible says.

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My point is, that "followers of Jesus" will live forever as themselves but with an incorruptible body(like Jesus) and a sinless nature alongside others. Jesus said He gives ETERNAL LIFE or LIVING FOREVER.

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                                           Forgive me if I did not represent your belief correctly in the following.

Compared with  my understanding "MOKSHA", the "atman" merging with or uniting with "Brahman" (a sort of "my soul" merged into a "cosmic soul") or Nirvana's realization of non-self and emptiness, or Jainism's "end of stream of existence".

 

I don't find much hope or satisfaction in those concepts. It sounds to me like a drop of water dropping into an ocean and becoming totally indistinguishable or separate from the rest of the water. Once a drop drops into ocean that drop becomes impossible to retrieve that exact same drop. That's what the different Hindu concepts sound like to me. I have a better hope than that. If you die and experience "moksha" would you even know you were "released"?

 

I will continue "to be" to "exist", be alive, active, eating, loving, singing, laughing, worshipping, etc., but not as a finite sinful human soul but as infinite glorified body, soul and spirit. The Bible says, "we (believers) will be like Jesus". I John 3:2 "For our dying bodies must be transformed into bodies that will never die (no samsara); our mortal bodies must be transformed into immortal bodies." I Corinthians 15:53  An "immortal" body is not reincarnation or moksha. This is my HOPE.

The Bible also says, "eye has not seen, nor ear heard, Nor have entered into the heart of man, the things which God has prepared for those who love Him.” I Corinthians 2:9 This is what my HOPE is.

 

This is not samsara with reincarnation into another soul that will suffer pain, disease, sorrow and death over and over for unknown length of time with endless effort trying to break the cycle. jesus NEVER experienced samsara, Jesus came back from death as HIMSELF, JESUS. History has recorded and verified this. Jesus is my HOPE.

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This is my hope for my eternity. I so much wish you and the children I love so much, to be included in this expectation, but you must make a decision to choose this path.

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                                                                DECISION DETERMINES DESTINY

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