AN APPEAL
To all people who seek God. To Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, and Christians of all denominations,
and to all believers who seek their God in all other religions of this world. God is spirit, and because we humans are
"flesh," we cannot welcome this one and only living God in our world, in the "flesh."
[Jn 4,23-24] Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshippers will worship the Father in
the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshippers the Father seeks. God is spirit, and his
worshippers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.’.
But there is a way to actually speak with God, a single possibility. God himself sent us his Son, he made him "flesh,"
that is, human, in order to welcome us through him and show us how we can come to him, to our true home, to the kingdom
of God.
God revealed himself to us in the spirit of his Son and had him say, "I am the way, the truth, and the
life." So it is the truth that Jesus Christ left us in his statements in the Bible that leads us to God, our Father in
heaven. And Jesus said to the Jews at that time:
"I have spoken to you of earthly things and you do not believe; how
then will you believe if I speak of heavenly things?"
(Jn 3,12;)
And when you read these words, you can feel the despair that speaks from this man and our God in his
spirit. He made the lame walk, the blind see, the dead come to life… and they did not believe him.
It is a
fact that humanity has lived past the truth, the actual reality. It has ignored the fact that if the God of life created
us, then this primitive, earthly, carnal life as human beings cannot be all there is. The God of life can only create
immortal, eternal life. What we have failed to recognize is that our future does not lie in our earthly, human bodies,
but in our spirit.
[Jn 6,63] The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing. The words I have
spoken to you – they are full of the Spirit and life.
(Quantum theory proves that consciousness [the spirit] never dies!)
It is this spirit, given to us by God, that is at home in another reality. It is definitely NOT of this
world. We are the only living beings on this planet that have this spirit—has no one noticed this yet? But because we
focus too much on our material, human bodies and their needs, as well as the demands of our respective personal
vanities, we do not realize that we are actually beings from another dimension, another reality. In our eagerness to
achieve our goals in this world, we fail to recognize that we ourselves, with our spirit, are not of this world at all.
[1 Cor 3,16-17] Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit lives
among you? If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy that person; for God’s temple is sacred, and you
together are that temple.
II have been an analyst and programmer, among other things, and after examining the statements of the Son of God in the
Bible for logical connections and freedom from contradictions, I believed Jesus Christ that before his birth as a human
being, he was with the Father in another dimension, which the Bible calls "the Kingdom of God" or "the heavens." And
that during his earthly life, the spirit of the Father was in his spirit.
[Jn 14,10-11] Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me? The words
I say to you I do not speak on my own authority. Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work.
Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; or at least believe on the evidence of the works
themselves.
As I can still remember well, one question was particularly important to me at that time. I asked myself: if faith in
Jesus Christ saves us from hell, what about all the billions of people who lived on earth before the Son of God
appeared? They cannot believe in him because he only came into the world after their death. That would be unjust and
would contradict the God of justice. For a long time, I suspected a "weakness" in the Bible here, especially since it
says that Jesus Christ would also save the dead.
[Act 10,42] He commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that he is the one whom God
appointed as judge of the living and the dead.
Then, however, I found a passage that made me begin to doubt my theory about the weak point:
[1Pet 4,6] For this is the reason the gospel was preached even to those who are now dead,
so that they might be judged according to human standards in regard to the body (according to their deeds in their
earthly lives), but live according to God in regard to the spirit (as immortal spiritual beings).
Apart from the fact that this is biblical proof that truly ALL people will be resurrected and immortal, believers and
unbelievers alike, the only difference is where they will spend their eternal life. But the first half of the sentence
was also completely logical from my point of view: if the dead are to be saved, then the gospel, the good news of
salvation through faith in Jesus Christ, must necessarily be preached to them first.
But here I was still missing
an essential statement; that was not yet the solution. If the good news is to be proclaimed to the dead in the realm of
the dead, then someone had to be there, in the realm of the dead, to proclaim it. So I still thought (hoped?) that I was
right with my theory about the weak point, until I came across the following text, which finally proved me wrong:
[1Pet 3,18-19] For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God.
He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit. After being made alive, he went and made
proclamation to the imprisoned spirits –
And then it dawned on me; no further explanation was needed to convince me. After his death, Jesus Christ spent three
days with his spirit in the realm of the dead, where he proclaimed the good news to the temporarily awakened spirits of
all the dead, the many billions of people who had died before his appearance on earth. How the Son of God accomplished
this was also clear to me: as a spirit in the realm of the dead, he could reach the spirits of all the dead
simultaneously, just as he already knew the thoughts of people during his lifetime.
[Mt 12,25] Jesus knew their thoughts and said to them, ‘Every kingdom divided against
itself will be ruined, and every city or household divided against itself will not stand’.
So far, so good. But now it is certainly not the case that the spirits of the people in the realm of the dead had to
forcibly receive the message that the Son of God proclaimed to them. I could imagine that they also have the ability to
block contact from other spirits.
And here, the Son of God probably experienced the same thing as during his
lifetime on earth: many will have said to themselves, "What do I care about this religious drivel? I want to get out of
here and have a body again," and thus missed the chance of a lifetime even in death. They could not get out of there,
because, as the text already says, the realm of the dead is a prison from which only the resurrection at the end of the
world, in rebirth out of the spirit, as an immortal being, can free them.
[Mt 25,31-32] When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit
on his glorious throne. All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from
another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. (the Last Judgment at the end of the
world)
[Mt 19,28] Jesus said to them, ‘Truly I tell you, at the rebirth, when the Son of Man sits on
his glorious throne, you who have followed me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of
Israel.
[Jh 3,6] Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit.
[Jn 3,8] The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or
where it is going (because it is invisible in the material world). So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.
And this living being, born through rebirth in the resurrection of the spirit, is the goal of human development as
intended by God! This is the only meaningful, logically thought-out, and consistent concept of human existence. Do not
be deceived; everything else is idol worship and leads to damnation. Even the Mosaic religion ended with John the
Baptist.
[Lk 16,16] The Law and the Prophets were proclaimed until John. Since that time, the good
news of the kingdom of God is being preached, and everyone is forcing their way into it.
So the gospel is proclaimed, and every Jew who wants to be saved must believe in Jesus Christ; his Mosaic faith is of no
use to him anymore! The Son of God also confirmed this when he said:
[Jn 14,6] Jesus answered,‘I am the way and the truth and the life. No-one comes to the Father
except through me.
So to all Jews who have continued to adhere to the Mosaic faith for two thousand years, the Son of God will say at the
Last Judgment: But he will reply, "I don’t know you or where you come from. Away from me, all you
evildoers!". [Lk 13,27]
The only faith that leads to salvation is the biblical Christian faith. And biblical Christianity is not a religion, but
a "relationship," that is, a relationship with or connection to our God and his Son. In biblical Christianity, prayer is
a "private conversation" between God and the believer. As our Lord Jesus Christ tells us, we pray alone to God in our
chamber.
[Mt 6,6] But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father,
who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.
We also have neither churches nor public service and therefore no clergy; we are all priests of the gospel of Jesus
Christ.
[1Pet 2,9] But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s
special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.
And with these words of the Apostle Peter, I come to the end of my testimony. Our Lord Jesus Christ has also called me
"out of darkness into his marvelous light." I thank my God for this every day. I am now eighty-eight years old, and
after about 50 years of Bible study, sooner or later, depending on the will of our heavenly Father, I will reach the end
of the earthly, "prenatal" phase of my existence. In conclusion, I would like to quote a Bible passage that, looking
back, has always helped me when I was in trouble. Perhaps it can also be helpful to others.
«What no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, and what no human mind has conceived’ – the things God has prepared for those who love him.» 1Cor 2,6 We do, however, speak a message of wisdom among the mature, but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing. 2,7 No, we declare God’s wisdom, a mystery that has been hidden and that God destined for our glory before time began. 2,8 None of the rulers of this age understood it, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. 2,9 However, as it is written: «What no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, and what no human mind has conceived– the things God has prepared for those who love him –» 2,10 these are the things God has revealed to us by his Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. 2,11 For who knows a persons thoughts except their own spirit within them? In the same way no-one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. 2,12’ What we have received is not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may understand what God has freely given us. 2,13 This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual realities with Spirit-taught words. 2,14 The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit. 2,15 The person with the Spirit makes judgments about all things, but such a person is not subject to merely human judgments, 2,16 for, ’‘Who has known the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?’ But we have the mind of Christ. 1Cor 2,6,16;

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