Let's look at a soul who never had any chance
of meeting Jesus.
According to the Christian Church, the Chinese philosopher
Confucius has been condemned to the fires of hell. Why? He NEVER could've
embraced Jesus because Jesus simply didn't exist in his world. Confucius lived
about 500 years before Jesus was born!
"The keynote of Confucian ethics is jen,
variously translated as `love,' `goodness,' `humanity,' and
`human-heartedness.' In human relations, construed as those between one person
and another, jen is manifested in chung, or faithfulness to oneself and others,
and shu, or altruism, best expressed in the Confucian golden rule, `Do not do
to others what you do not want done to yourself.'"
We now have an admirable individual who
ventured forth to spread love and make the world a better place, and yet
Christian tradition would say that God has no respect or use for this soul
because he didn't personally know Jesus.
Is there ANY verse in the Bible that shows
that God had any affection for the millions of souls who lived and died without
knowing Jesus?
Yes, there is.
I John 4:7
7 Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God;
and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
There is something that the world has
continually overlooked about Jesus.
Jesus is NOT just a person limited in time and
place. Before he incarnated, he was the living Christ energy, which is to say,
the energy of God's Love.
Mother Mary said it best when she declared in:
John 1:1
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with
God, and the Word was God.
The Gospel of John was written my Mother Mary
and transcribed by Mary Magdalene, and the beloved disciple at the foot of the
cross wasn't John at all, but that's a discussion for another day.
Jesus is "the Word", which is
accepted without challenge in every fundamentalist Christian church, but what
the world doesn't realize is that the real word that his name is
interchangeable with is "Love".
Jesus and Christ and Love all mean the same
thing!
If Jesus and Love mean the same thing, did
Confucius know Jesus? By specific name –
no, but by energy and intention –
YES!
Does Confucius fulfill God's requirement that he be filled
with the essence and energy of His only Son, Jesus?
Yes.
So that means that Jesus' pure message has
always been to embrace, embody and emulate Love, as he demonstrated for us.
Then, as he declared, NO ONE could come to the Father except through Love,
otherwise known as the Son.
Christians will say that the Bible and Jesus
mandate that a person needs to be baptized in order to be in compliance with
desiring spiritual salvation, and Confucius and members of non-Christian
religions are NOT recognized as baptized and so are NOT in compliance with
God's plan.
Mark 16:16
16 He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but
he that believeth not shall be damned.
John 3:4-6
4 Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he
is old? can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born?
5 Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except
a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the
kingdom of God.
6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh;
and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
As for the specifics of baptism, to physically
incarnate is to be "born of water". Each and every human being has
already achieved the first part of the mandate by being a soul contained in a
human body, which is mostly water.
The actual process of baptism lies in the
second part, which is a call for a soul to shift their priorities from
selfishness to love, which is what it means to be "born of the
spirit". The external water element is completely symbolic and has nothing
to do with whether or not a soul has committed to be "born of the
spirit".
By these perspectives Jesus, the Spirit of Love, was alive
and well in Confucius' life. He was indeed baptized in the spirit for he was
spreading God's truth of Love and he was welcomed by Jesus into Heaven.
We need to understand that God's Love is not exclusive.
1 John 4:7-21.
7 Beloved, let us love one another: for love
is of God; and every one that loveth is born of
God and knoweth God.
8 He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
9 In this was manifested the love of God toward us,
because that God sent His only begotten
Son into the world, that we might live through him. (This clearly states that Jesus, His only begotten Son, is manifested
love!)
10 Herein is
love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us, and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one
another.
12 No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one
another, God dwelleth in us, and His
love is perfected in us.
13 Hereby know that we dwell in Him, and He in us, because
He hath given us of His Spirit. (His
spirit is his Love, or Jesus perspective, inside each of us.)
14 And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent
the Son to be the Savior of the world.
(God's Love, also known as Jesus, will indeed save the world.)
15 Whosoever
shall confess that Jesus (the Spirit of Love) is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God.
16 And we have known and believed the love that God hath
to us. God is love; and he that
dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.
17 Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have
boldness in the day of judgment: because
as He is, so are we in this world.
18 There is no fear (which is selfishness or sin or
darkness) in love; but perfect Love (the Spirit
of Jesus) casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not
made perfect in Love.
19 We love him,
because He Loved us first.
20 If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is
a liar: for he that loveth not his brother
whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?
21 And this commandment have we from him, That he who
loveth God love his brother also.
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