Humility 

"The meek shall inherit the earth". What does it mean to be meek? Does it mean walking around with our head lowered and speaking only in a soft voice, never arguing never standing up for ourselves? It means to be humble.

The apostles from the bible were humble. Does this description of humble describe them? Very much the opposite. The apostles were outspoken, brave and determined, yet they were humble.

Have we confused humble with pious? If God loves humble people they must be the type of people who would be helpful in furthering His cause, which would be to assist man in attaining salvation. To work with people and convince them of the value of reaching as lofty a goal as going to heaven, the chosen person must have some teaching abilities. Would our definition of humble make a good teacher, likely not.

The term humble must mean something else them. To humble ourselves before God might mean to understand our placement as man in relation to God. If we truly understand the nature of God and compare our standing with Him, what would we find? We would have to admit that there is no comparison to be made. The creator of everything we see and don’t see, the creator of everything we could possibly think of, is the nature of God. We are only one of his creations in the entire universe, a speck if even that. A speck, which God recognizes as important enough to attempt to re-unite with Him no matter how long, it takes or how much work it entails. Doesn’t this thought make us stand in awe of God, doesn’t that thought make us feel humble?

      Everlasting Hell  

 Now who thought this one up? God is love itself. Does condemning his own creations which he formed as a part of Himself, to everlasting hell make any sense?  

Is it possible that man has misinterpreted the length of time that we must spend in hell before we are fit to return to heaven? Perhaps the word "everlasting" is not the correct word. At times words are difficult to translate from one language to another, some words have no equivalent in a different language. The word in the original document may have been "ages" or "eons" or something similar, which denotes a long time but a time with a termination date.

So why do the churches insist on frightening us with the threat of " everlasting hell" if we do not perform as they are teaching us. Such a horrendous threat should surely make us obey their rules without questioning. "Their rules"? Whose "rules"? The churches? But wait, there are so many churches and some of the rules differ from church to church and religion to religion. So which rules must we follow? If we may be cast into everlasting hell, we had better know which church has the correct rules. The stakes are high. We cannot afford to follow the wrong set of rules.

The churches teach us that after Jesus died, he descended into hell and rose up to heaven on the third day. Why would He descend into hell if the souls there had no chance of leaving the place, what would have been his purpose other than to inform them that there was an opportunity for them to join Him if they so desired. True, it might take eons, but it would be worth the effort.

  WHAT IS THIS PLACE CALLED EARTH?

  How has our life been since we have been here on earth? Would you say that your life is heaven on earth or more like hell on earth or some of both? So are we kind of in the middle between heaven and hell?

   Atheists say "this is all there is". So what is the point of spending approximately eighty years here in the middle. What is our ultimate goal, to be rich and happy only to die and lose it all?

Christians say we are here to "return to God", "to find our way back to heaven". Does this mean we were there once? Yes, they tell us we are descendants of Adam and Eve who fell from heaven and now we must pay the price. Why must we as children of Adam and Eve pay for their sins? Even on earth, children are not punished by the courts for their parents’ mistakes. It all seems so unfair.

We are also told that Lucifer fell from heaven and that one third of heaven fell with him. When Adam and Eve were placed on earth, which is the middle ground, were they on their way down to hell or on their way up to heaven?

If we are on earth to find our way back to heaven, must we be on our way back from hell then? Is earth a sort of testing ground to earn our way back to heaven? Are we all part of the one-third who fell with Lucifer and now are paying for our own sins and not for those of Adam and Eve?

How did we come to be in the middle and which way are we headed, to something better or something worse?

      Past Lives 

  Have we been on earth before and must we keep on coming back here?

Some of us hire a hypnotist to discover information regarding past lives and some of us think we remember small incidents from our past lives on our own. Would it make sense that we have been here before?

 Some of us are born with a silver spoon in our mouths and others of us have the lowliest of births. Often some of us are born with the ability to be great artists, musicians, scientists etc. Was there enough time from our birth to the discovery of our gift to have learned so much? Might we have learned this at another time, another lifetime?

 Everything we are learning in this lifetime, is it all for naught or can we come back to earth and build on the knowledge or talents that we have developed this life?

 Our time on earth is really very short, so why would we have only one chance to make it or break it. If God is a loving God as we are taught then would he not give us as many chances as we need to learn all the things we want to learn?

 If we do not keep coming back over and over again then why are our lives all so different from each others? Where would the fairness be for some of us who must struggle all through our earth life while observing others who seem to have such a better life? If we are able to keep coming back as often as we wish to, then perhaps we have had easy lives and difficult ones and this would seem fair, even if we do not all have the same type of lives at the same time. Perhaps we get better and better at managing our lives each time we begin a new one. 

WILL I GO TO HEAVEN?

 “When we die we will go to heaven”; this is everyone’s wish. We are told that some people are so evil that they will go to hell. So, which one will be our lot? How good must we be to go to heaven or how bad must we be to go to hell? Does God grade on the curve? Where does He draw the line? What about those of us who find ourselves at or near the line, how does He make His decision?

Actually, we people on earth are all at different levels of development. When we leave this earth, our spirit continues on the journey, without a body, through more levels of development. We may re-incarnate many times in order to use this earth as a learning place in our quest for heaven. When we leave this earth, we will have an idea as to which level we belong in the world of spirits. We will be attracted to the level where the vibration is similar to ours.

Life is a continuous journey toward God; waste a few lives and we only delay our progress. It is a good thing to know what to expect once we leave out body, we would not want to be counted as one of the lost souls who don’t know which direction to go. If we are not prepared with this knowledge, how will we recognize where we are once we are separated from our body? If we act as if we don’t expect to leave this earth, might we remain here even if we are lacking our body haunting the area, in which we think we still reside.