It is indeed a shame that “Christians” cannot accept any belief or beliefs other than their personal and religious denominations. I have attended a member of a fundamentalist churches, Baptist churches, Nazarene and several others even Roman Catholic. All of those churches have their good and not-so-good beliefs that I can and cannot agree with. It’s the way things are.
Some of us have been in church from shortly after our births until the present. We believe that what our church teaches is all there is. It just isn’t so. There are thousand of beliefs and teachings in this world that make more sense and appeals to humanity in general than any one particular teaching. It is true that our beliefs are among the best there is, however, is it all it could be? The answer of course is no. All religious teachings have within them the dogmas and creeds, prejudice and beliefs of their pastors and denomination leaders.
As we look at the many religions in this world, we can’t help wonder why there are so many. If there is only one true living God and only one God who is the source of all creation, then why all the controversy? We are all part of that creation and need to know that.
Christianity teaches that Jesus Christ is the only begotten Son of God and that we are just human beings not begotten by anyone. It is not so, we are all begotten of the same God that Jesus was. God created all there is and that, for me, settles it. However, my beliefs are mine and they may not agree with someone else’s. That is as it should be.
I have become a Spiritualist because I have been a medium from birth. That means that I have been sensitive to the Spirit World for a long time. However, I only became aware of the totality of that 30 years ago. As a Spiritualist, I believe in the Spirit World and that all humans go there when they die. Christianity teaches the same thing, but with restrictions. They also teach that only born Christians, believe in Jesus Christ, as Saviour will actually go there when they die. They say “absent from the body, preset with the Lord”.
The scientists who have studied Spiritualism a 160 years ago came to the conclusion that what Spiritualist teach about the Spirit World is correct. Some of those scientists have even come back through a medium and told about the Spirit World. They have said that there are Protestants, Catholics and Hindu, in fact, people of all religious beliefs, in the Spirit World. Some even continue to attend churches of their faith there. This maybe hard for some to believe, but it’s true. Just because we die doesn’t mean that we have given up our beliefs. We have only gone from a physical life to a spiritual life.
Again, there is only one living God and we all believe in Him in one way or another. Spiritualists don’t necessarily give up any of their religious beliefs if they were not Spiritualists from birth. In fact, they are encouraged to keep their religious beliefs and only incorporate into those beliefs that there really is a Spirit World and we can communicate with it. It is our choice.
Do Spiritualists believe in Jesus Christ as saviour? Some do and some don’t. It is up to the individual as to whether they will keep their beliefs in him as their church teaches or not. I do.
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