Heaven and hell are side by side in this world.
Life, temporal or eternal, is about our personal journey. It is to do with who we at the beginning and end of our present life. Tasting the fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil did not cause us to die, it opened a door to a more glorious Eden in which the choices we make between good and evil in this life will determine our own incarnation over and over again into future generations.
It’s all about this moment of time right here and now. As we ponder what today may bring, whether good or evil, we are making choices that will determine what tomorrow may bring, whether it is the happiness we deserve or the unhappiness we deserve.
There are two ways to see the world we live in.
There is a world of darkness, where ordinary everyday people from diverse nations and tongues are caught up in vice and corruption because of envy, bitterness, lust, greed, insecurity, etcetera- a literal “hell on earth”. Jesus speaks about these people existing as it were, in hell, simply as a symbolic expression of living in a darkened world, not a literal hell as Christian fundamentalists would have us believe, but right here on earth as a consequence of choice. People are born into places that Jesus likened to fire, not by chance neither by an arbitrary God who many deny because of the suffering in this world, but by a quantum law that exists and best expressed as the law of cause and effect.
The other world within this world is a world of light. Places and circumstances we find ourselves in that can only be described as heavenly places. When ordinary everyday people from all walks of life desire to enjoy the fruits of love and goodness, kindness, love, peace, security, they usually discover there are heavenly places within this world, a simple outworking of the same quantum law.
The outworking of this law is plain and simple:
Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. (Mat 7:1-2)
Our lives are determined from the womb, nay, even before we are formed. Past and future experiences will forever guide us towards the knowledge of a greater love, a love the world has yet to understand. So if your hand or your foot causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life injured or crippled than to have two hands and two feet and be thrown into hell fire. And if your eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. It is better to enter life with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into eternal fire. ( Mat 18:8-9).
Those who have ears to hear will understand what Jesus meant by that statement. The apostle Paul speaks about this law as the law of the spirit of life, the outworking of the law of sin and death. It is knowledge of this quantum law that will change the minds and hearts of all who want a better world. The problem we have today is the lack of knowledge about the subject of life and the necessity of death. Even though Adam opened a door to a world of unlimited knowledge we need to understand that the knowledge of evil while choosing to be good is necessary to refine the human spirit. The first thing the logos ordered out of chaos was light. The darkness was first separated so that light and darkness, though separate, were as compatible as night and day. Though God pronounced night and day as very good on the first day of creation, the sun, moon, and stars were not formed until day four, a reminder that good and evil are separate but necessary. Evil was created by the logos, not as a test or trial, but a necessary quantum force so that the universe would forever expand. The present chaos we see in the natural world- earthquakes, hurricanes, fire and storms, volcano activity, etcetera, are not the result of evil, but rather the outworking of a natural quantum universal law unrelated to Adam’s transgression.
How can we possibly have a peaceful world if we cannot first understand why the earth, sea, sky, sun, moon and stars, plants, minerals and animals, were brought into existence out of chaos in the first place?
Through procreation and child birth, intelligent beings with the knowledge of good and evil will forever go on discovering new technology, especially in the field of medicine where one day there will be no sickness, pain, and fear of death. The “I AM” became humanity. In other words, the logos, the thinking, omnipresent intelligence, breathed its existence into human clay. Omniscience became humanity so that individuals may use their unique and complex talents to make this a better world. Humanity will come to the realisation that there is a single conscious body that will inevitably and ultimately discover the existence of the logos, not in a cathedral, but within the individual who shares in the one breath of life. The whole purpose of creation was an act of love. There is nothing on the earth, in the sea, or in the sky that was not created for the pleasure of mankind. We are to love, and be in love with one another, have dominion over the earth, sea and sky, enjoy the abundance of life, and appreciate the gifts and talents we have.
The nature of divinity
John’s gospel reveals much detail that explains the nature of divinity within humanity. The knowledge of what is stamped in each heart is the epicentre of all Jesus’ teachings. Jesus had difficulty explaining the spiritual nature of the kingdom of God because a Messiah resembling their hero King David was expected to return and overthrow the Roman army by force, then in turn, set up a physical kingdom where the Jews would reign forever.
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