Heaven on Earth

My colleague, definitely had been pissed before by a group of maybe right meaning but damn "thid" Christians .............asked me : If God is so good, so Loving.......why must he let only Christians go Heaven and non-believers must go hell. Why can't all humans go heaven.

Wah...cheem question.

I prayed a prayer of wisdom before volunteering my thoughts.

I really don't think everyone wants to go heaven. I don't even think everyone out there universally agrees there is a heaven. For sure, there are some who think reincarnation is the only way and spent a life time ensuring they get reborn in specific conditions.

There are people who think we'd become dust - that humans are devoid of souls or spirit (to Christians, there is soul and there is also spirit) - so from dust we come, to dust we return. No more, no less.

Then there are those who believe in a specific set of conditions that will get them to Heaven or Hell. May not be what God proposes in his own set. The Taoist proposal is as far from the Christian God's as North and South.

So at the end of the day, it boils down to this. God has a story to share with us...how he created us, why he created us, why he choose smallish Israel and let this small nation impact the world.

Why he sent Jesus, why is the death of the Jesus so important to set man free from the curses of our ancesters (which we believe can be partly evidenced in the genetic diseases that passed from generation to generation), the curses of our environment and damages men ourselves had created and the curses of our enemies (some we know, some we don't know who had been plotting silently against us).

In our genetics, in our damaged environments, in the retaliation of the natural forces against men's heinous acts against them (have you noticed the places where the worst atrocities take place - there is famine, there are earthquakes, there are floods etc Its like a natural force out there crying our, striking back).

If we can sit down and hear God's story, properly told (try Joseph Prince of New Creation Church)............the law and conscience that he wrote within us WILL tell us that this is really our God. Our innermost being will call out to the father who created us. Our every cell can testify and so will our spirits, no matter how damaged and fallen.

Then we allows us to exercise our freedom to choose and we wants us to choose him. But the vote is in our hands.

This Christian God is a really strange God. He started the idea of democracy which formed the basis of the Western worlds' political reformations.

He gave us freedom and he expects us to exercise that freedom to choose him. He believes in reciprocation. He gives LOVE and wants us to exercise our choice to LOVE him back. He delights in it, he wants it this way. He programed the world and man thus.

Then when we exercise that vote for him, we receive our Heaven. It starts right now on earth.

If we have genetic curses, we are redeemed. The holy spirit now residing inside you will help break those bondages inherited through our ancestors.

If we have very bad circumstances (bad karma as the Buddhists put it), the spirit will free us and lift us.

More than freed, Jesus says he will give us life and a life more abundant. If we know how to tap onto God's promises , this abundance includes everything we need. He says he is our El Shaddai - provider. Health, Wealth, Harmony, Righteousness, Ever Brighter paths until the perfect day.

God can't give everyone heaven after death as we are designed to inherit Heaven right here on earth. Death is only a stop on that path, its not the beginning neither is it an end. Its like a bus stop we have to stop by to change another vehicle on our way home.

But first, we have to believe his story and exercise our vote.