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.
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.
Every day is a chance
Moment!
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
Unfortunately, he won’t.
We will just be called judgemental dogmatics and be blamed for why ppl become atheists I guess
Every human being but Noah and sons was corrupted by demons huh? No chance to clean up the corruption, might as well just wipe them all out. To hell with my commandments. The NWO could claim that today and probably think of it the same: Welcome to the Soft Reset, humanity!
God created life, he can take it. Obviously his commandments don't apply to him.
I didn't make the rules 🤷♂️
This is precisely what the text implies. And they were all given a chance to come along but no one else believed and everyone scoffed at Noah and his crazy conspiracy idea. 🤔 he spent something like a hundred years building it so if anyone wanted to join him they had ample opportunity
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.
One perfect bloodline and the rest be damned. So good! Thou shalt not kill, thou shalt leave that to me. I do the killing around here! Not bait, I would call it a powerful retort to your claim of god's goodness using your own beliefs to highlight the supreme hypocrisy of it all.
If a murderer gets sentenced to life in prison, does that make the judge “mean”?
If the judge decides to let the guilty go free in spite of clear evidence of guilt, and no sense of remorse in the murderer, would that make the judge “good” in your eyes?
Do you have kids? Do you punish your kids when they do wrong? Or do you let them do as they please, so that they will think you are a “good” dad?
You have the mindset of a petulant child, angry at his parents for daring to create boundaries on his behavior.
You are welcome to hate God as much as you want, but don’t think for a second that a spoiled, wicked, evil, sinful, prideful, fallen human like you gets to demand the Creator of the Universe act as you see fit.
How narcissistic can you be?