form of the incarnate God, who died and went to the places of death and
Seven Questions
Shishye Thompson
¶;Uekalrks tkra rUekla] ;nkRerks tkra rnkRek¸
[That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. John:3:6]
If I do not understand something, then shall I call it Maya a dream, or an unreal
world? But in fact, we need not call it that way because it is not a dream, it is all
real and it can be seen, and experienced by what is known as FAITH.
1. What is this universe? - The universe encompasses everything be it
living or non living. The matter, the Energy, and beings with soul and spirit that
are called living. We notice that all this is not haphazard, but there is a system
in place. Someone is making things to follow a law and order. There is a
centre of governance and power. Even if we do not see it physically. Look at
the precise timings of the movements of Galaxies, stars and our solar system,
the earth, moon and the other planets. There movements and timings are
accurate and perfect to the fractions of seconds. It is not even a gravitational
force or pull, there are different movements simultaneously taking place.
Then there must be an architect of this universe. Someone alive someone
more wise a creator we call God.
2. Who is man? – Man is not an animal. He is different because he has a
mind, he can think, he has a conscience and so has a sense of morality. He
plans, remembers, and communicates in many ways. He has a language in
which he thinks, reads and writes and his creator must communicate with
him. He invents and he recognizes that there is a being higher than him.
Religion is a proof of this fact that everyman is looking for someone
somewhere unseen. He is not evolved from a monkey because there are no
missing links for millions of species. And if evolution of humans is true, then
we should see the simultaneous evolution of languages in many different
stages of development. We have more than 6000 languages in the world, yet
there are no languages that are spoken by beings, that are links between a
monkey and man?
Man has emotions, needs to love and fellowship he is a created being. He
should have a history of creation and a future.
3. Why is, sickness, old age and death? The physical Human body has
been given a span of life, it is a life cycle. Birth and growing up and then adult
full life and old age and then death. Remember but it is only for the physical
body. Living beings have two parts one made up of the elements of the earth
and the second the invisible spirit that gives the spiritual life to humans. This
spirit gives life to the physical frame made up of dust. When the two are
joined together it makes a living being. The day the spirit departs from the
body the dust goes back to dust and this we know as death.
4. What is beyond death? When someone dies why do people cry and
lament? Is it because they are hopeless and do not have a clue, what lies
beyond death? Has anyone come from the world beyond death, and has
given us a future hope and information about it. There must be a man in the
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came back to us and has given a direction to follow. Can his life and account
of things beyond be trusted? The eternal enemy of life is death. The great and
small are all swallowed in by death. Hope of most humans is buried with
death. The big question is what will the human spirit see when it departs the
body. A spirit world of evil, darkness torture and flames and moans, or a
paradise where the holy beings and other creations of God dwell.
5. What are the common deceptions of man? Men are deceived from
truth in different ways.
a. Man as God- Man who is a sinner, and defeated by sickness, sin and
death and is a created being, can he be equal to God, and worshipped in
place of God.
b. Non living things as God. Anything that is a non living thing, cannot
create living intelligent beings and can it be then, worshipped as God.
c. Human Philosophy & Gurus. Human knowledge and wisdom is limited
by learning, it cannot match or answer the questions about God and
spiritual world. They, who have not seen God, or the other world, can
their theories or imaginations be of any value?
d. Science- Many think the knowledge gained through science makes a
person an atheist, but in fact the reverse should be the truth, the more
intricacies of life the science reveals, the more one is sure of God and is
curious to know Him.
e . Devil and demons introduced as gods: The black magic and miracles
etc experienced with the power of Satanic forces does not make the
source of all this, to be God. Anything that is supernatural is not God or
from God. Just as good and evil is on earth visible, so also there is Good
and evil in the supernatural. The supernatural evil can be recognized by
the fact that it brings fear, demands money and sacrifices and the results
of such worship does not lead into holiness, but brings immorality, and it
only gratifies the flesh in the guise of God.
f. Shakti [Power] – Anything that is more powerful than us should not be
regarded as God and worshipped. Or anything that brings fear in us
should not become object of worship; our worship is not extortion.
g . Tantriks introducing fear and misleading with their so called
miracles.
h. The confidence in self, away from God. Pride that makes people
think that they have the power over the destiny is a lie.
6. Who is the creator? Is the creator not one who could create something
out of nothing? He should also have life in himself, and so could create life out
of no life. He should have power in his words that can call out into nothing
and bring into existence something? A creator who could create matter, energy,
light and life. Who has the power over life and death and could judge? Who
could listen to his creation, and respond.
7. Can I obtain Moksha? Is there then a God who loves us, and not hates
us or waiting ready to destroy us? Is there a God who is absolutely holy at the
same time who can forgive sin, and is willing to offer salvation or Moksha as
a gift? Is it possible for me that I purchase my Moksha? Can I work to gain
my Moksha? And if this is impossible, then can it be gifted by God to me? has
God made a way out for me?
The One answer
Amazingly all the above questions are answered in one book the Bible that is
written with the inspiration of the Spirit of God. But why should anyone
believe it so? Is it not like any other book? The answer is, it is not another
book, but a book you can call a library and that has the message of God for
humanity.
The 66 books of the Bible vary in size, from one page to almost a hundred
pages. Written during a period of 1500 years. It gives description of God,
creation of universe, and man, the problem of sin, description of the destination
of heaven for those who have obtained Moksha, and hell for those who have
no Moksha. Written by 40 or more writers and still amazingly there is no
contradiction.
Jesus said heaven and earth shall pass away but every word that is written
will be fulfilled.
Creation: About the creation, let us read from the word of God direct in the
book of Genesis. “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. And
God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.
Then God said, “Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees
on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds.”
And God said, “Let there be lights in the sky to separate the day from the
night, and God made two great lights & stars of the universe. Also it is written
that Lord Jesus the incarnate Son of God, who is the radiance of God’s glory
and the exact representation of his being. He sustains and controls all things
by his powerful word. And Lord Jesus proved it during his incarnation on the
earth, by controlling the sea and the wind and the nature by his word.
Again God said, “Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly
above the earth across the sky. And God said, “Let the land produce living
creatures according to their kinds, and it was so.
Man: About the creation of man we read, God said, “Let us make human
beings in our image, in our likeness. And so God created human beings in
his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he
created them.
Then why is this cycle of life? The answer is through this we need to understand
the worthlessness of dust, and not concentrate on the physical body so much,
but the eternal spirit. And it is salvation or Moksha that needs to be our focus,
not the usual temporal gains. There are issues of the spirit and the spiritual
that is important. The old age and death is the sign of decay and progressive
death of the temporary abode of the spirit. The most important need of the
Physical body next to the spiritual Moksha while on earth surely is Physical
healing. A God who answers the prayer for healing is one who is alive and
who loves his creation. It is for this reason that the Lord Jesus while on earth
healed the physical ailments of all the sick who came to him. Even today
when you pray in the name of Lord Jesus, your sicknesses and deceases can
be healed. He even gave back life to dead people.
Sin & Deception: We read in the book of Romans: that the anger of God is
being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of
human beings who suppress the truth by their wickedness. For since the
creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine
nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made,
so that people are without excuse.
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Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the
glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal human beings
and birds and animals and reptiles.
They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served
created things rather than the Creator.
They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and
depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are
gossips, slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent
ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; they have no understanding, no
fidelity, no love, and no mercy. Although they know God’s righteous decree
that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do
these very things but also approve of those who practice them.
A view, from beyond Death:
About Lord Jesus it is written that, He came from above and revealed the
plan of God to mankind. And so his revelations can be trusted.
Bible says “it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment”.
John a disciple of Jesus who wrote the last book, of future revelations in the
Bible, saw a vision. He writes as follows,
“And there before me was a door standing open in heaven. Then I saw a
great white throne and him who was seated on it. And I saw the dead, great
and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Another book
was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged according to
what they had done as recorded in the books. The sea gave up the dead that
were in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead that were in them, and
everyone was judged according to what they had done. Then death and Hades
were thrown into the lake of fire. The lake of fire is the second death. All
whose names were not found written in the book of life were thrown into the
lake of fire [hell]. When the body dies and goes back to the dust in the earth,
the spirit takes off to a new destination, and that is in the presence of the
judgment seat of God.
There is a way to obtain Moksha
I can be saved by the judge himself from the consequence of judgment.
Punishment is death but God offers to take the punishment on himself.
SAAT SAWAL June English-10,000
Jesus Christ takes the death on himself and offers to those who believe on
him Eternal life – Moksha to man. This is the way of Moksha. God became
man in Jesus Christ, lived among men, preached the ways and plans of God
, he was then crucified on the cross as a substitute paying the penalty of sin
for every human, and he defeated sin, satan and death and came alive on
the third day. Then he ascended to heaven in the sight of man. Now he is
seated in Heaven and has been given all authority in Heaven / Earth and
under the Earth.
Your Prayer for Moksha: Lord Jesus I believe that you can forgive my sins
and grant me eternal life. Your holy blood is the price of my sin. Answer all
my prayers that are made in the name o f Lord Jesus. Give me Life. Amen.
SHISHYASHRAM
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