11-27-2012, 01:28 AM
I'll give one more of my dreaded opinions on the matter, here. This is one of my opinions that people have told me is the most crazy.
The human race thrives on conflict and war. The genius of the teachings of Jesus is to wage war against war. Nonresistance to evil, nonrestistance to violence, to the point of death. The death of Christ is Symbolic. With the death of the physical "world" the energy of life becomes the Holy Spirit. Physical war gives way to spiritual war. Symbolical war of minds and "souls". Many that follow Jesus' teachings will be killed or left to die by those that don't follow the teachings, but all will die any way. Those that remain in a society of physical war and greed and so forth will continue to suffer the hell fire and torments of that lifestyle. But if all followed the basic heart of the teachings, and lived and fought spiritually/symbolically, while helping and giving and sacrificing for the sake of others physically: that is the Kingdom of Heaven.
It's not likely that will ever come about. Especially when most of the believers of the teachings don't really follow the teachings. Most of us don't want peace and Heaven. We think we would like peace, and when we're in great suffering we sometimes want peace, in certain senses. But I'll stop here.
The human race thrives on conflict and war. The genius of the teachings of Jesus is to wage war against war. Nonresistance to evil, nonrestistance to violence, to the point of death. The death of Christ is Symbolic. With the death of the physical "world" the energy of life becomes the Holy Spirit. Physical war gives way to spiritual war. Symbolical war of minds and "souls". Many that follow Jesus' teachings will be killed or left to die by those that don't follow the teachings, but all will die any way. Those that remain in a society of physical war and greed and so forth will continue to suffer the hell fire and torments of that lifestyle. But if all followed the basic heart of the teachings, and lived and fought spiritually/symbolically, while helping and giving and sacrificing for the sake of others physically: that is the Kingdom of Heaven.
It's not likely that will ever come about. Especially when most of the believers of the teachings don't really follow the teachings. Most of us don't want peace and Heaven. We think we would like peace, and when we're in great suffering we sometimes want peace, in certain senses. But I'll stop here.