There's evidence that Jesus travelled to India and Tibet in his younger years, there where the bible says he was a carpenter during those years. There's many video's on this subject. Here are just two:
7min: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjERTNVXgfg
30 min: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEvomvO8cb0
This is important to know because it helps us to understand what Jesus really meant with that you have to go through him to enter the Kingdom of God. What this really means is that you have to become ego-less (like Jesus) to enter the Kingdom of God.
In Eastern traditions this is often referred to as ego-death or Enlightenment. And to achieve ego-death we need to go within. "Know Thyself" and "The Kingdom of God is Within" is what Jesus said.
Praying really hard to God and Jesus and accepting Jesus as your saviour will not get you out of the reincarnation process. And yes, there is evidence that Jesus originally spoke about reincarnation as well. But obviously the TPTB did not want to empower the people and therefore they would have had enough motivation to scrap reincarnation from the bible.
If you don't achieve ego-death, like Jesus, in this lifetime you don't have to worry. As long as you did not live your life in a completely selfish manner, you will go back to that place called heaven and then after a while you decide to reincarnate again. Even if you do end up in hell (which will feel like an eternity) you will get a chance again to redeem yourself. Even our brothers and sisters from the darkside were created by God.
Don't let dogmatic believers convince you that you only have one chance. People saying you only have one chance should have a good hard look at themselves. Instilling people with fear is not a good thing and is not what God and Jesus are about.
Jesus did not visit India. This is new age woo woo.
Jesus and Buddha have completely different worldviews. Buddha believes suffering comes from attachment, Jesus says it comes from sin.
There is no reincarnation. There is a resurrection.
This 100%. It is appointed once for man to die- then the judgement.
Your God is a mean God.
God has created this entire universe so that beings can only be here for one liftetime? And then you only get one chance to prove yourself?
What if you were born in a country where there is no Christianity? For someone like that it becomes so much more difficult to find Christ. So why does God do that? Why does God give different people different starting points in life and then gets angry with them if they did not find God and Christ in that single lifetime?
That's unfair and mean and is NOT what God is about.
God is absolutely good. I feel like I have to step up and defend Him here. The Bible talks a lot about how kind, loving, forgiving, merciful and graceful He is towards us.
God created the entire universe so that we could be with Him forever. Man was not created to die- we were eternal- but death came into the world through the sin of one man. Our spirit man is eternal and we will spend our eternity somewhere- either with God or separated from Him. It's truly just our choice where that will be.
The first sin did separate us from God. It seems unfair, yes. We are born with a sinful nature- like being born infected with a disease. But God provided us a free cure- a free way back to Him via the sacrificial death of His own Son. The only human to never sin was killed in the most painful, humiliating and scornful way I can imagine, and He went to that death willingly. Jesus laid His life down to buy us all back to the Father. To me, THAT is unfair- the most unfair thing I can imagine. And yet the Word tells us that for the joy that was set before Him (ie, bringing us a way to get back to God), Jesus endured the cross.
I don't know why some of us are born more priveleged than others. But we are all offered the same, free path back to God. Just to accept what Jesus did. Believe He is God's son, sinless, and that He was resurrected. There is a lot more to Christian life than just this, but once you have that down, read your Bible, and Holy Spirit will help you grow. It's not a bunch of rules, it's a relationship. And no matter what people tell you, the Christian walk is something you are learning for your whole life- no Christian is perfect or without issues they have to deal with.
If you are born in a place with no Christianity, and you are seeking God in your heart, He will find you. The Bible clearly says that if you look or seek, you WILL find. And He knows our hearts. And no matter what religious Christians might say, He does speak today. He's actively looking for those who will accept Him, wooing and calling us to Him all the time. For example, look at the testimony of Muslims who encounter Jesus in dreams. They are searching- truly searching- and God reaches out to them in a real way.
The thing that blows my mind as a Christian is that the God of all creation, who made the universe and sits outside of time and knows the end from the beginning and knows me inside and out? He LOVES me. He died for ME. He delights in me, and I can go talk to Him any time I want to. The Bible tells me I am free to come boldly to Him, that He is just and faithful to forgive and cleanse me when I fall short and confess my shortcomings, and that He is my ever present help. That He will fight for me, provide for me. The Word even says that He sings over me. Not because of anything I have done or earned, but just because He is love and He loves me.
So no, our God is not a mean God. I sure pray you get to experience how truly wonderful and kind He is :).
I know how wonderful and kind God is :)
I'm just saying that people that say that God will only give us one chance, irregardless of circumstance, is a mean God.
It’s not one chance - we have multiple chances multiple times throughout our days/weeks/months here on earth to turn to God and seek his will and to obey his commandments. Our life review will be all those minutes and seconds that passed by that we chose Gods will or our own & the ripples caused by those choices - good ripples & bad that affected all those around us.
We have our whole lives up until the moment of death idk how much more you want lol
Did he or did he not murder every human being on the planet except for Noah and family not that long ago? Kind, loving, forgiving, merciful and graceful?
If you study you will see the flood was to remove corruption introduced by fallen angels. A soft reset while preserving a believing remnant
I feel like you are trying to bait me into arguing, which I won't do. If you are interested,or curious, though, I would suggest looking into what it meant in Genesis when it says Noah was perfect in his generations. It's a rabbit hole :).
But I will still say, YES, God is kind, loving, merciful and graceful towards us. 1000% YES, He is absolutely good.
It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of a living God. God isn't always 'nice', and Christians aren't called on to be tolerant of every snake that slithers.
The answers to your questions are in the Bible. You may not like it because it won't confirm that Jesus went East and studied under Bruce Lee or some other silly nonsense.
You didn't watch the video's and your mind is set.
Another arrogant dogmatic Christian.
The devil thanks you for turning people away from the true message of God and Christ. Dogmatic Christianity is one of the leading causes of atheism.
I don't need to watch your video. My mind is set because I believe the Bible.
You can cry 'dogmatic!' all you want, but what are you being here? I dare say you don't know the true message of God and Christ. If you did you wouldn't push your Satanic reincarnation crap.
It is appointed onto man to die once, and after that comes the judgement, so says Hebrews 9:27. You need to repent of your sin and ask Jesus to save you. If you honestly and sincerely seek him, he will show you.
And that's all from me. I hope you find salvation.
You have it all backward. Not ONE person deserves to be saved no matter WHERE they grew up. It is by God’s grace and mercy that ANY will be saved.
This should answer all of your questions.
Matthew 25:31-46
31 When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory:
32 And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats:
33 And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.
34 Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:
35 For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in:
36 Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.
37 Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink?
38 When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee?
39 Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee?
40 And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
41 Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:
42 For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink:
43 I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.
44 Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee?
45 Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.
46 And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.
This doesn't answer anything.
God wants us to enjoy our lives in this universe and to grow as souls. We obviously need many many lives to achieve the state that Jesus achieved: ego-death. And this is what will get us into the Kingdom of God.
This is how a good God will arrange creation.
Ego-death, eh? Who's assuming they know more than the Creator of the entire Universe exactly?
Isaiah 55:6-13
6 Seek ye the Lord while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near:
7 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord.
9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
10 For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater:
11 So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
12 For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.
13 Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree: and it shall be to the Lord for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.
‘can only be here one time?’
Dude any god that would make me come back and live this life more than once, can take a hike. Reincarnation is a big lie from satan.
1 life is enough here. I don’t want to come back here again. F that! Christ’s death on the cross and salvation is enough for me. I am humbled and grateful. I am confident in my salvation! You should be to. It’s not what we do, it’s what HE did.
Imagine, thinking that you could add anything to the foot of the Cross. That any of your works or getting rid of your ‘ego’, would grant you eternity in heaven. Only your EGO would tell you a lie like that. The irony - 😂🤣
Satan was the head number one egotistically being known to mankind, and to the Angels. He thought so highly of himself, he was able to brainwash a third of the angels to follow him. The only person who’s telling somebody they have more than one chance, is Satan. Don’t listen.
Your life on the other side is so great that we voluntarily chose to come here to experience friction (pain and suffering), because it's pain and suffering that gets us out of our comfort zones. Heaven is one big comfort zone and therefore not really conducive for learning lessons and growing as a soul.
It's pain and suffering that causes us to ask questions which eventually, after many lives, forces us to start looking within.
Know Thyself, The Kingdom of God is Within.