Miserable Worms And Sinners
Christianity will never again be able to dominate large parts of our world for as long as it insists on clinging onto the long outdated understanding of its own teachings. If it did, the majority of people to this day would believe that human beings are born into one single earthly lifetime. If that were the case, why should some of us be born as sinners and others as saints? This unfortunate fate would leave no room for the Universal forces to provide every one of us with opportunities for gradually evolving from fools into wise ones, each under their own steam. In spite of any false beliefs we may ever have nurtured in our bosoms, that is what God and the Angels have constantly been doing in their infinite wisdom.
Anyone whose earthly mind is reasonably developed must be able to recognise that developing from sinner to saint cannot come about in one single lifetime, quite miraculously and without us having to do a stroke of work on improving our character make-up. In any case, what kind of a God would it be who creates human beings as sinners who have to suffer just because they are taking part in earthly life? Isn’t it enough not being allowed to know why we are here, where we are coming from and going to; why anyone should have to suffer and why there is so much suffering in our world *?
Judaism, Christianity and Islam are known as the Abrahamic religions. This is because they are sharing certain sacred texts; Christianity calls them the Old Testament, in which Abraham is described as the founder of Judaism. Christianity and Islam are branches that have grown on this tree. The three religions have an all-male God in common. His children are poor creatures. For starters they have no mother and there is no place in the whole of Creation they can call their home. They appear out of nowhere and are dropped into one single earthly life and there is nowhere for them to go to when it is finished, as everybody inevitably must.
The only thing these poor creatures know about is their small and easily frightened earthly self and the physical body in which it resides. When that part dies, the earthly self is snuffed out like a candle and, according to the Christian teachings there is nothing but dust to dust and ashes to ashes. No trace of us is left anywhere. Death is not the kind and loving Angel of death, which in truth it is, as we know by now. It is a grim reaper, who is often depicted as a human skeleton with a frightful grin on its face and holding a scythe in its arm with which it mows people down indiscriminately, just for the fun of it, frequently without any warning whatsoever.
Christians are made to believe that on judgement day * the physical bodies of those who believe in Jesus will be restored, so that they can join him in paradise, presumably moving around in these bodies. Anyone who rejects Jesus as he lord and master of their life has to fry in the fires of hell forever, without any chance of redemption. Are you as glad as I am that nothing of the kind happens? If it were true, our Creator would be a sadistic uncaring and unloving one who casts human beings onto the Earth, which for far too many of them is nothing but a valley of tears and suffering.
The placing of these poor individuals appears to happen at random and haphazardly for a stay of a certain period, and that once only. For no reason whatsoever and without distinction or discrimination, some are rich and others poor, some enjoy good health while others have to endure lifelong afflictions, some are women and it’s all right when they have to suffer at the hands of their men, because the females of the species are merely men’s chattels and unpaid servants, and so on and so forth. It does not seem to bother the Creator that the whole enterprise is grossly unfair because he is sitting on his throne in a distant place by the name of Heaven *. No-one has any idea where that might be.
In case the rulership of this Deity had continued forever, human beings would never have found out that in truth every one of us is part of God’s spirit and that the essence of our being is spirit and soul who are immortal and eternal, just like God. We would still not know that life is a never ending spiral that is constantly winding itself upwards and forwards and that this will forever continue. However, the coming of the Aquarian Age ensured that God’s wisdom and truth could no longer be suppressed. The scales kept falling from humankind’s eyes ever more forcefully and it became clear that Christianity’s obsolete image of God had been nothing but a description of the character traces of humankind’s own lower crude and unevolved nature. That was all we allowed to know in those days.
Yes, it is true that every human being once was a sinner. This was essential for walking the predestined pathway. Even though no-one forces us into another earthly lifetime, the education Earth alone can provide is compulsory and cannot be avoided by anyone. The curriculum of this school demands that before humankind’s higher nature can be explored, we first have to become familiar with its lowest and murkiest aspects. For this purpose it is necessary that we sometimes find ourselves at the giving and then at the receiving end of the darkest and nastiest experiences of life in physicality.
Because this is in keeping with God’s great plan of life and the countless smaller ones within it, for each one of us there is an individual one, it never did make any one of us into a miserable worm. At whatever level we are at the moment taking part in Earth’s lessons, whether our development is still at its lowest point or the highest one, something never changes, each one of us at all times remains a beloved child of God, the Great Father/Mother of all life.
In the early stages of our earthly education we are ignorant of the higher aspects of our nature and the spirit background of our world that is invisible to earthly eyes. When the going gets tough it is hard to believe that we ourselves once chose this pathway and that it was done hand in hand with the wise ones in charge of us in the spirit world. For a long time we are unaware that they are constantly observing and guiding us into the adventures that are inevitable parts of the lessons we have agreed to take part in. Not knowing any of these things, it’s very easy to get lost in the role we are playing on earthly life’s stage.
And now just for a moment, let’s imagine how you and I behaved when we were still unaware of the Universal laws and how they are affecting us and our life. Unable to see the wise ones in charge of us and our world and having no idea of what kind of part they are playing in our lives, as far as we are concerned they don’t exist. As a result we believe we can do as we please. No matter how much we sin, if no-one sees us, it’s okay. We go to church on Sundays because that’s where God is. The rest of the week He cannot see us. And in any case, at the end of our lives we shall be extinguished and no trace of us will be left behind.
That’s why during the early stages of our earthly development we are likely to ask ourselves: ‘Why not do the nasty stuff something inside urges me to do? No-one will know. To my heart’s desire I can hurt and main, torture and kill those who are unfortunate enough to fall into my hands. As long as nobody is watching, regardless of how much burning and looting, plundering of their earthly possessions and raping of their women I do, nothing is going to happen to me.
Oh dear! We could be no more wrong. If only we had known. But the hard way has always been the Universe’s way of teaching us the value of things. Without this we would never have learnt anything. Considering that each one of is a young God in the making, this kind of education and tough love is not surprising. Alas, with the help of the beliefs that are now turning out to be false, every one of us has done their share of creating the present state of our world. That’s why now all of us are required to shoulder the responsibility for making it a better and more peaceful place for all its lifeforms in the human, plant, animal and mineral kingdoms.
And for as long as the record of Christianity’s vision of our world remains stuck in the same old groove, the churches together with their followers will be unable to take their rightful place for moving forwards and upwards on the evolutionary spiral of life from fool to wise ones and sinners to saints. Won’t they be surprised when they arrive in the world of spirit and find out what really happens to them? Never mind, in due course they will be granted the gift of another lifetime, so they can catch up with the rest of humankind.
* Recommended Reading:
• ‘Why Is There So Much Suffering In Our World?’
• ‘Why Do Bad Things Happen To Good People?’
• ‘The Law Of Karma’
• ‘The Cause Of All Suffering In Our World’
• ‘Heaven And Hell’
• ‘Heaven And Hell – An Allegory’
• ‘There Is No Judgement Day’
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