nimblecobra79 said:The choice is ours; we have heaven if we simply want it.
Jesus showed us how we ought to live (according to the universal law) if we want Life, and he gave us the opportunity to tap into love (life energy) at any moment—a force that wipes away every sin and makes everything new and right again.
Just read what's above. So, whether it’s the first sin, the second, or any other, it all comes down to whether we allow it. And then, the state of things is truly just like the beginning, plus the realization of what exists outside of God.
Still, nothing actually changes, and nothing is undone.
The reality remains that your actions (or lack thereof) here on Earth determine your place in Heaven.
Even before him, anyone could "tap into love" at any point in time.
People have always been the architects of their own hell or heaven through their own conduct, both before and after Jesus.
True, that law still stands. But like I said, if you let love into yourself, it repairs those deformities caused by the absence of love, which is what led to sin in the first place.
Right now, it might seem like we can't even let that love in, but we can, because our very essence (God) is designed to push us forward, to grow, and to become aware.
So, love only started appearing with Jesus? It didn't exist during those thousands of years before him?
And nobody was able to "let it in" back then?
I wouldn't go that far. 😁
Because if that were true, I'd have to ask where our essence (God) was for those thousands of years. 😉
And I'm sure you'll tell me that God is eternal and unchanging, so that same God—who is also our essence (and they say God is love 😁)—was inside us all along in the exact same way, not just since Jesus showed up.
It's still not clear what changed after Jesus compared to before.
Everything you mentioned was already an available option before he arrived.
Let's say Jesus came to set an example of how to live.
Fine, he did. But why did he have to die the way he did? He could have died of old age. He would have had even more time to speak and teach. Or even a heart attack.
And in the same vein, he could have revealed himself to his apostles after some ordinary, unremarkable death to prove they too would rise if they lived like him, if that was the goal. Some people claim the whole thing was about the resurrection...
Some see it as pure symbolism... the old, human "self," the bad and sinful part, needs to be nailed to the cross to die, so that a new, spiritual "self" can rise from it—something "not of this world."
But Jesus was already "perfect" even before being nailed to the cross; he didn't have a bad or sinful "self" that needed to be crushed. Theoretically, he wasn't even "of this world" during his life, so there was nothing for him to nail to the cross.
So, once again, I don't agree.