christ gave us the example that we are to follow, we are the body and are to put on the example that he showed

Question

some tell me that i am not christ&am not to do as he did. they say that he has died for us all & that i am to just be a good person living right, caring about others, but not as far as to risk my own salvation in doing so. i say that the bible tells me that if i am wish to save myself, i will lose my life. but that if i i lay my life down for others, that this is the way to true salvation. for our heavenly kingdom is a kinkdom of god. how can i acheive the goal of being in the heavenly kingdom of god, less all people are there with me, for god is all in all&if one person is left out then the kingdom is not of god. this shows the great importance of loving your neighbor as yourself, because being one with christ is to be one with all and your neighbor is part of you. it is no longer i but him who is in me&he is all things. though i come in the flesh that you partake of, i do not war against this, i have only put it on to help you find the way out. i lay my life down&will take it back up

Answer 1

You are to be commended for your seriousness.

The 'life' you are to lose is the one believed in by the little learned identity - the ego. These beliefs were imprinted during early development - from other limited egos teaching you about self and the world - and they control your thought system, feelings, perceptions and reactions.

But, YOU are not your thoughts or feelings, you are the OBSERVER of them. Transcending this programmed identity allows you to return to being the authentic (Christ/anointed) Self and fulfill your passion and purpose. THAT is how we become a savior of 'the world' as Jesus demonstrated.

Because god/reality mirrors the contents of consciousness, if you overcome your learned identity, a unity occurs between being and reality allowing you to serve your divine purpose.

Answer 2

Jesus was splitted between this world and the world of yonder where His heavenly Father is reported to reside, and Jesus often declared that He was not of this world.

I am afraid that Jesus is no good example for people who must manage to survive on this earth. He never formed a family of his own with wife and children, thus disobeying the holy wish of God whereby people should unite as man and wife and get children in order to populate the world. Jesus Christ had no greater respect for the love of family and friends. He seems to have been here to create more discord. In fact He is reported to have declared that you should abandon your family and your friends, and even let your own dead father remain unburied, in order to love and follow Him Jesus Christ that would save you at last and so make the chosen among you into His fishers and herders of men.

Jesus is reported to have declared "he who is not with me is against me" when at a village where the inhabitants did not want to hear of His holy message. He spitefully shook the dust off His sandals and went away promising never to come back. I cannot avoid thinking that this was just a blunt act of intolerance.

Jesus made the innocent fig-tree die because of not being able to show any fruits when Jesus walked by and was hungry. And Jesus was bad when He expelled the merchants from the temple door where they were trying to sell something in order to earn some money to bring home to family.

Human beings are inherently hateful and murderous by nature, and Christians have the tormenting death-instrument of the Cross as their holiest symbol. People of a neighboring religion have the Sword as their religious instrument of execution and of imposition of their faith.

Answer 3

Some people take these things entirely too literally. Islamic suicide bomber for instance. To lay down ones life for another is less about dying and more about being fearless and selfless. A person who dies saving another person who has a heart laden with doubt and fear is not as good as a man who has not laid his life down yet has no fear or doubts about doing so.

Answer 4

"Philsosphy begins when one learns to doubt, particualrly oones cherished beliefs, ones dogmas and ones axioms. Who knows how these beliefs became certainities with us, and whether some secret wish did not futively beget desire clothin in thedress of thoughts?"

Answer 5

You've been listening to too many other people telling you what to believe. Figure it out for yourself and then ignore them.

Doug