by Seth Jordan

Created on: December 11, 2006   Last Updated: September 13, 2010

I grew up as the son of a Baptist preacher. At the age of 13 I decided I was tired of the hypocrisy within the church and quit going to church, and quit believing what was ingrained into my being from the time I was born. As the years went by I still felt anger at the ignorance of those people who try pushing their views of religion onto others, and then couldn't even live by those same views themselves.

The most pressing of these issuse to me were is there a Heaven, is there a Hell? And if there is such, who goes where? According to any scripture written, it would seem that the rules are these: those with sin go to Hell upon death, those without go to Heaven.The problem is that "all have sinned and come short of the glory of God."

Those who are Christians however, have the answer right in front of them although they in general do not seem to see it for they are still crying for continual repentance and ask for forgiveness day in and day out.

Jesus taught time after time what the Way was.Those who are born of Spirit are not accountable to any law, not man's nor God's.To those who are born again in truth, there is no sin, no blemish and they are saved. It is not a repetitive process, it is a one-time thing, it is not anything you have to work at, because to live by law is to die guilty, for we all transgress laws in some manner or other. To be born again is the death of the ego and the birth of the spirit which replaces that ego, or the inner self. Even Jesus taught that you could denounce Jesus as the son of God, and still live in Heaven, but if you renounced the Spirit, you were damned.This is the way to heaven, plainly put and yet most so-called believers are still disputing exactly what the Message was that Jesus came for and taught.

Take baptism, and what it stands for. It is a ritual re-enactment of what is required for the entrance into the Kingdom of Heaven.The death, burial and resurrection. The death of the self, the will, the ego, the burial of that, and the birth of the spirit of Christ, which is the holy spirit that takes the place of the self when you sacrifice it as Jesus did.

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