dave_a_mbs
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Hi Shawn-
You are quite right, Jesus said that there is death, and after death the judgement. I work with past lives, and I have found that to be folly accurate. Jesus had no need to speak of reincarnation, because up until Emperor Constantine revised the Bible, reincarnation was an accepted Jewish doctrine, as it still is. There is also a "Heaven" and a "Hell", in the sense that after judgement the soul often seeks bliss and joy inthe company of God, until sent forth again to learn more, or seeks a way to be "repaired" so that past errors of judgement (we call the "sins") will not occur. The true Hell is a state occupied by souls so arrogant, self-righteous and rejecting, they they prefer eternal lonliness and separation from God, to the opportunity to return to the Oneness as parts of the Divine. That is, hells are created to order by those in need of them. These people often also extend their hells onto the earth, preferring to rule in a private hell, making war on others, ranting and hating, fearing and exploiting, rather than simply admitting that they are not the all-in-all in any manner, and that God is superior in every manner, and they would do better to love and be honest about matters.
The term "satan" means "adversary", and refers specifically to the unruly self-seeking egotistical spirit of very young souls. They aren't "evil", in the sense of having some spiritual power that can resist God, but they often are remarkably stupid! So they do things that get their works tossed onto the trash heap (gehenna) where they are consumed in fire and brimstone (that's what they burned in gehenna to keep the stench down). This experience has been well described by hippies who had a "bad LSD trip" in which they discovered their own insignificance, leading to fervent prayers for redemption and change.
The judgement is imposed by the part of us that is God and that seeks God, and thus is imposed by God, although by a roundabout process, in order that we might return to God. The Sankrit term "karma" (meaning "action" as in cause and effect) is precisely the same. The idea of an eternal damnation is, fortunately, a human idea that came along about the same time as Constantine, and was championed by Manes and other heretics.. There is no past life or astral travel evidence to support it. None. But it's still best to live as if there were. d
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