a reply to:
cameos
Most people don't base their decisions on life though. They base their decisions on obtaining more money, material possessions, ego, etc. all
of which leads to various kinds of death.
I agreed with what you wrote before this section, but in terms of the quoted material, I will have to disagree
slightly.
Although I agree that yes, in our personal narratives we often seek self-serving means & methods by which to enjoy our lives, that is only really
because we are raised in systematic ignorance of the Truth which Jesus preached, and with regards to who He actually is, in His role as the Lord of
Creation. Most people, if they knew who Christ actually was/is, would absolutely choose His way over their own way every single time. Because yes,
He offers "..life, even life abundantly". The trouble is that very few people receive a bona fide revelation of who He is or what His mission was,
they have only third hand tales from Christmas carol services & Easter Sunday, or a few lines of the Biblical text which they picked up at funerals &
weddings over the years.
Anyone who has a near death experience, or a road-to-Damascus religious conversion event, or even really powerful dreams whereby they experience
direct divine contact (this was the case with me) will always choose to put their trust in Jesus over & above all earthly concerns.
In near-death experiences (bodily consciousness persists until 20 seconds after the heart is stopped & blood is not flowing to the brain) - people
often report that they have a strange lack of interest in their seemingly dead body beneath their floating spiritual body as they witness the medical
personnel working frantically trying to revive them, and little interest in even returning to Earth at all in very many cases, after they have been
translated into the Heavenly realms. This is because their spiritual senses are overloaded with an incredible sensorial bounty, a smorgasboard of
radically new & life-filled wonder which absorbs all their rapt attention, and indeed a great many come to know Jesus directly in those moments. Of
course a great many will also meet instead with angels as intermediaries, or with deceased relatives who act as a welcoming party into the spiritual
Heaven - though of course many, when presented with the choice & given a reason to return, or when compelled by divine edict to return to Earth to
complete a future mission - they will return (though often grudgingly), and they will frequently report decades later that the NDE was the singularly
most important & defining event in their lives, with real changes seen in personality & actions after the event.
I also happen to disagree with most of what you post in your second paragraph, and I disagree primarily because you are not giving God the credit for
being the most gracious, forgiving, unconditionally loving Being in all of the total fullness of all parts of Reality.
The God I'm familiar with is infinitely understanding, able to parse between bone & marrow, soul & spirit, discerning what is the fault of the fallen
state of the world, the fault of bad genes, the fault of a dark & unloving home environment, the fault of specific trauma from any events imaginable
as either a child or an adult - and confusion, due to a bad education in spiritual, or even in human matters of dignity & decency, or perhaps
resentment against God as the ultimate authority figure, due to experiences of abuse of either trust or body, or both, at a young age. Terrible
things happen to young children & adolescents every day around the world, and in combination with those other factors mentioned, as well as (being the
last consideration) the deliberate choices to act wrongly in certain situations - only then can the actions & character of specific humans be properly
understood. We should be the VERY last ones to judge, if we are not acting in consideration of all the facts, with all the context, and all the
divine wisdom which God makes available to us.
God is loving & forgiving, even in relation to abominable acts - if the person is able to see the error of their ways in a real & deep, enduring
sense, if they are able to repent with true godly sorrow at what their own choices have caused to unfold as those actions ripple out tangential trees
of consequence into the world. This is why I say that the perpetrators of the evil, diabolical conspiracy to depopulate & take control of the world
can be forgiven - but they must break ranks & come clean, demonstrating heartfelt contrition for their actions. It's quite feasible that some
participants have already taken strides to accomplish this turnaround - but the co-conspirators got to them before they were able to make their
confessions public, hence they ended up being 'suicided' or dying as the result of a staged car crash, heart attack or drug overdose.
Until these people actually do come forward in this specific way, they are culpable for the mass murder of innocents, mass theft of assets & insider
trading, mass disruption to the proper & orderly evolution of civilisation, and high crimes of all sorts in addition - hence they are guilty at a
ceiling level when it comes to human jurisprudence, and they quite rightly deserve a capital sentence for those actions & for the explicit or implicit
decision to make common cause with the infernal prince of lies, the god of this world, Satan. Therefore I will continue to pray for the deaths of the
leaders of the conspiracy, as a sign which has the potential to stop in its tracks the momentum of the freight train underbelly of the conspiracy -
shocking the underlings into submission to the righteous cause of God, which (in case it's not clear) requires the absolute cessation of all actions
related to this vast & highly coordinated conspiracy.
Regards,
FITO.