The Gospel According to Acharya S
Eternal Life for Everyone?
For centuries people around the globe have believed in divine, immortal beings of one sort or another who occasionally appear
to the faithful to bestow blessings and spiritual healings upon them. In various parts of the world in modern times these entities have taken on
the form of the Judeo-Christian messiah and madonna, or the many incarnations of God in the Hindu religion, or of Buddha, or any number of other deities worshipped and believed in worldwide. In ancient times, believers saw such gods as Zeus,
Isis, Astarte, Apollo, Mithras, Horus and many others. There have been thousands of such godly creatures over the millennia; indeed, Hinduism
claims 333 million of them in its pantheon.
Divine Qualities are Not Restricted to the Divine
What all of these beings have in common are immortality, supernatural powers, and the ability to appear third-dimensionally
now and again. In fact, these qualities have come to define what the average human being considers to be God, or at least
an aspect of God, whether as "his son" or some other apparition. With the attribution of such divine qualities, the human being also bestows a
great deal of respect and adulation upon these seemingly divine creatures. Because the average person believes he or she is separate from God, he
or she does not believe that he or she has any such supernatural or divine powers. The common folk believe themselves to be helpless, pitiful
creatures who must rely on outside intervention to have a reasonably good life.
The standard "religious" doctrine also teaches that if the lowly human being is very good, behaves himself and "believes unto
the Lord," he will earn eternal life. It is also widely believed that many of the so-called prophets, such as Elijah and Moses, were able to
attain to this status of immortality, as their appearance next to the "son of Man" was purported in the New Testament. (Mk 9:4) Thus, it is
obvious that even measly mortals can attain to immortality.
Our so-called religions have also taught that numerous people have been able to develop supernatural powers such as those
attributed to Jesus. For example, in Acts, the disciples are also able to heal the sick and do other miraculous
exploits. And kooky televangelists are always running about pretending to be doing supernatural healings. So, according to such traditions, it is
apparent that "mere mortals" have also been able to develop powers that are considered divine.
In addition, it is evident from "sacred scriptures" that so-called mortals can work on the third dimension after they die. The
fable of the appearance of Moses and Elijah next to Jesus is one such example of this as well.
Join the Crowd - Everyone is God
All of this leaves the skeptic and nonbeliever to ask, if immortality, supernatural powers and the ability to appear on the
third-dimension are signs of the divinity of an entity, can we not then assume that every human being who "through faith" has attained to eternal
life, and/or developed psychic gifts and/or has reappeared in apparitions or voices after death is also to be considered God or "son/daughter of
God?" Many religious people who have been taught to believe that Jesus alone is the true face of divinity also often
claim that they have heard the voices of their deceased loves ones or have seen ghosts of them or some other such vision. Obviously, these
"religious" people would also hope that their departed had been "saved," i.e., accepted Jesus Christ as their Savior, and therefore would be
guaranteed eternal life. What differentiates their departed love ones from angels or even the son of God or God Himself? What makes God or Jesus
any different from these dead people, who have now attained to immortality, have developed supernatural powers and the ability to contact the
living? Aren't they on the same plane as God and Jesus?
Uncle Harry is Immortal!
To say that "God" or the Divine has one face, or a specific gender, or is completely separate from us or our "immortal"
deceased, is not only ignorant but it flies in the face of the very notions that believers hold up as " God's Word." If
all of the "true believers," i.e., those who are naive enough to blindly believe what a handful of men wrote down 2,000 or more years ago, who
have ever died have been granted eternal life, i.e., immortality, that would pretty well put them on the par with God or his son or his mother or
his aunt or any other immortal creature. If someone were to say that their long-dead uncle Harry appeared to them the other day and conveyed some
godly information, and therefore was undoubtedly God Himself, who could prove him or her wrong?
The Gospel According to Acharya S
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