"It's up to an individual's belief...
For Budhist , it has never been said.." towards the end of the road ".they are two branches..
Rather its called a dead end.. it's layman view..without wisdom It is up to an individual's belief...
For Budhist , it has never been said.." towards tge end of the road ".they sre . two branches..
Rather its called a dead end.. it's layman view..without wisdom."
(David and Egr Ong Geok Soo)
For the evolutionist, when they come to the end of the road, there are two branches. Burial or condemnation
(Tan Seng Khoon)
The above were two views sent to me in my whatsapp chat group
My answer:
Dear David, Egr Ong Geok Sol, and Ir. Tan Seng Khoon
Thank you to both of you for your views whether life exist after death
Allow me to share my views whether or not it is the end of the road once you suffer a physical death
I can only briefly explain. I cannot write much using this small smart phone of mine because it is always changing whatever I write with its auto correct, and I cannot even switch it off
First, let me quote you a verse in Genesis:
"And the Lord God formed man of dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul"
(Genesis 2:7).
This apparently is a very " simple" verse to most people, but to me it has a very profound meaning
When Adam was created, he was just a dead body made of dust or from the soil of the earth just as in the carbon cycle of life we learn in biology class in school..There was no life in Adam initially when the Lord God made him out of clay so to speak.
Adam was initially a dead body like you mentioned when we die but are we really at the end of the road after being buried or cremated?
Both methods reduce us into the soil. But is that really the end of life? Think, think again. Read that verse many times, analyse it and think again
The Clue:
Let me give you another clue with this verse:
"In the sweat of thy face shall thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground, for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shall thou return"
(Genesis 3:19).
Now the above verse is what you literally believe, that when we die we return to dust into the soil, be it through burial or through cremation.
Literally and physically speaking based on this verse alone this is correct.
Spiritual Wisdom:
Unfortunately this is the belief read and interpreted by a person without spiritual wisdom. A person without spiritual wisdom is blind and he cannot see beyond what science believes and teaches him.
He reads and interprets the verse literally and in the physical sense pbecause he cannot see beyond his physical dimension
This is no different from Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews who came to Jesus by night wanting to know how he could enter heaven
Jesus answered, verily, verily, I say unto thee, except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God
(John 3: 5 - 6)
Nicodemus answered Jesus how can a man be born again when he is old....and enter his mother's womb again (John 3: 1 - 4)
Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.
Nicodemus, though he was a member of the Jewish council he could not understand the deep spiritual meaning of being born again of water and of Spirit.
It is known to Science that 60 percent of the human body is made up of water, but in this verse it could also mean cleansing through baptism with water.
Water as a universal solvent is the most important ingredient for the existence of life.
Water is also very important ingredient for physical cleaning as well as for spiritual cleansing as in baptism. But let us talk about this later
Spirit of Life:
Let us get back to the first verse once again
"And the Lord God formed man of dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul"
(Genesis 2:7).;
Did you see the meaning of that verse there that says..."and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul"
Now tell me, what does that tell you as it instantly revealed to me.
No clue? Well, let me refer you to another verse elsewhere to help you.
It clearly says,
God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth
(John 4:24)
Now have you got the answer. Not yet I suppose?
Let's go back to the first verse again.
"and breathed into his nostrils the breadth of life"
I suppose you now got it. Yes, no?
If not, let me explain. When the Lord God created Adam out of the soil, he had no life in it yet..He was only a physically dead body.
The Chemistry of Life:
But a physical body need something far far higher and much more complex than what Science has to offer.
Science has no answer how the music of life went inside a set of compounds from the soil..
Neither has Science any answer to the existence of a ghost or spirit inside us as long as we are still living.
Science is just a systematic study of matter and energy, nothing higher. It cannot detect the presence of many entities in us, let alone measure them.
One of these is life, not in its physical form but its spiritual presence inside a physical body which is the initial breadth of life God blew into Adam body.
It is some kind of life force or life energy residing in a living body.
It is some kind of life force or life energy residing in a living body.
This has nothing to do with chemical energy from the food we eat daily that powers our body biochemistry
Two Ingredients to life:
In order for a dead body to have life, it requires two ingredients, namely a physical dead body (about to be buried or cremated as we believe) plus a "life force" pumped into it
Two Ingredients to life:
In order for a dead body to have life, it requires two ingredients, namely a physical dead body (about to be buried or cremated as we believe) plus a "life force" pumped into it
This second un-measurable entity must continue to reside with the physical body as one, until both part, wherein the soul, spirit or ghost escapes, and the dead physical body returns to the soil from where it originally came as described in Genesis 3:19
But what is that "life force" driving a living body to allow it to continue with physical life as we know it .
But what is that "life force" driving a living body to allow it to continue with physical life as we know it .
A living soul as I know it is;
A physicial dead body + an aura of energy inside, driving the physical laws of chemistry of life inside.
Of course this means to me, life has nothing to do with all those complex biochemistry and the chemical energy derived from food we eat, scientists can only understand in the physical sense.
If that is so simple an answer, why then should all those biochemistry not go on as usual when the "force of life" God first pumped into the Adam leaves the physical body together with all those biological chemicals inside?
After all the biochemical reactions and their metabolic pathways together with the protein gene expressions and their highly complex signalling pathways have been proceeding beautifully without stopping until death do them part.
Why then did all these biochemistry and their biomolecules stop working almost immediately and completely if derived from the bread he eats alone, and returns to the soil from where it came.
Man shall not live by bread alone. I quote the verse once again
Earning a Physical Living:
In the sweat of thy face shall thou eat bread (working to earn a living), till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken; for dust thou art, and unto dust shall thou return
(Genesis 3: 19).
Let me challenge my learned scientists who are my counterparts, why did all those body chemistries refused to proceed as usual after "something else" inside leaves the body, but were forced to crumble down to return to the soil from where it originally came? Was there something very wrong with those biochemistry?
Did something else much, much higher than the food they eat that drove those chemistry of life that was actually ordering those chemistry of life to halt immediately and to return to the soil?
In short, the laws of chemistry has to be obeyed. But then why did it now refuse to obey, and the chemical reactants start breaking down, composed to return to the soil where their elements and nutrients came?
This, to my dear scientists and medical expert counterparts need to answer me with a conscience in their hearts Forget about all those biological, nutritional, biochemical and medical sciences they learn in the university.
I too have undergone all those lectures, learning them forward and backwards, and forward again, and taken count less examinations across five universities to satisfy my countless external examiners from my undergraduate, post graduate diploma, my Master' s to my doctorate degrees. But today I am not satisfied by what they taught me I have a mind and a still small voice speaking to me all the time.
Why then must these chemicals of life obey this verse in Genesis instead of obeying their own chemical laws?
There is something not quite right here then. Something much, much higher residing inside the physical body must be ordering these biomolecules then, when to proceed, how long to go on and when exactly to stop. Isn't that queer to the best scientific brains if they think again.
But it is not with our scientific knowledge that is helpful, but it is the spiritual wisdom the Lord God gave us to see clearly.
Ghost inside a Body
It is the spirit of God he breathed into a lifeless physical body made up of tens of thousands of different types of biochemical molecules, proteins of all sorts, nucleic acids, DNA....etc, etc ....together with their highly complex metabolic and signalling pathways that controls all of them. Something much, much higher is controlling all the laws of chemistry in our body.
To me today, seeking for wisdom is my daily prayers, because I realize I have been imprisoned by the limitation of scientific knowledge taught to me over 15 years in five different universities, together with my 25 years in medical research.
There is something very grossly missing in all those scientific and medical knowledge taught to me.
That life shall remain in our physical body as "a living soul" till a physical death do us.
The body then returns to the soil, the soul, spirit or ghost if you like returns to God who gave that initial spark of life.
Another way of putting it. The body separates into two.
The physical dead body as originally in Adam, plus the spirit of God which God pumped into his nostrils.
The spirit then escapes back to God where it came from after physical death, and this can never be destroyed.
That life shall remain in our physical body as "a living soul" till a physical death do us.
The body then returns to the soil, the soul, spirit or ghost if you like returns to God who gave that initial spark of life.
Another way of putting it. The body separates into two.
The physical dead body as originally in Adam, plus the spirit of God which God pumped into his nostrils.
The spirit then escapes back to God where it came from after physical death, and this can never be destroyed.
Thus, "what therefore God hath joined together, let no man put asunder" (Mark 10:9).
"And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soil, but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell"
(Matthews 10:28)
"and the dust returns to the ground it came from, and the spirit returns to God who gave it"
(Ecclesiastes 12:7)
The spirit was never judged to return to the soil because it was breathed into Adam by the breath of God. The body return as dust but the Spirit escapes elsewhere.
The spirit, soul, life force or ghost can never be annihilated or become extinct. It will remain throughout all eternity because it is the breath of God. Everything about God or is part of God is eternal.
The Soul of the Body
Our soul is part of His breath and is made to live forever as a spirit
"The first man Adam became a living being; the last Adam, a life giving spirit"
(1 Corinthian 15:45)
Jesus Holy Ghost
"When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said , It is finished: and he bowed his head , and gave up the GHOST
(John 19:30)
And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, Father into thy hands I commend my spirit : and having said thus, he gave up the GHOST
(Luke 23:46)
Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, YEILDED UP THE GHOST
(Matthew 27:50)
Now, doesn't those verses recorded in John, Luke and Matthew speak for itself that there is a GHOST or a spirit in Jesus, and that ghost will appear in body form again in Jesus after his death when he appeared again before his disciples besides the Sea of Galilee.
This is now the third time that Jesus shewed Himself to His disciples after he was risen from the dead
(John 21:14)
All these verses clearly tell us there is a ghost in Jesus and in us too that will unite with us in Jesus one day
The Lamp of Life:
Life forces or the"breath of life"
is exactly like a flame of a lamp..
The lamp represents our complete body. The wick represents the pathways the biochemical reactions takes as it draws nutrients to be burnt which is the flame of life itself.
The oil in the lamp are all the fuel and nutrients from food we consume, being stored in the body to be metabolized as a flame
The warmth and the light of the flame is life itself.
The lamp if not lit is just a dead lamp with no life, no light and no heat.. nothing. So is a dead body
Each lamp if placed in a row remains unlit until the flame of life is transferred from the first lamp to next lamp until the entire world is aglow with lamps of life.
The spiritual flame once lit cannot be destroyed. It is transferred into into another body or to another lamp to give it the flame of life.
This is exactly how a living creature has to sacrifice itself as food in order to transfer its life forces to another creature in order to give it life
If you take a cow for instance, it has to sacrifice its life, but only once in order to give its life to another living creature, say to a human being who eats its beef But that fuel of life is limited
The Eternal Flame:
But not with Lord Jesus, His life is eternal and His spiritual fuel is unlimited.
So when people ask me how can Jesus who died only once over 2,000 years ago can give eternal life to countless billions of people who believe in Him
My answer to them is simple.
Jesus life is unlimited. He is an Eternal Flame that can never be extinguished.
If there is a lamp that continues to burn an eternal flame, that lamp can continue to transfer its flame from lamp to lamp without any end. So is with Lord Jesus
Unfortunately there is no life on Earth where its life forces is unlimited.
It can only give its life just to the next living body as food to drive the chemistry of life that scientists know very well.
Wisdom not Knowledge:
For the elite and learned scientists seeing is believing, but for me, I only seek for wisdom in my daily prayers in order to believe
So for me, I believe first, only then I see.
Note:
I am sorry this is just a quick answer to three people who wrote into my Whatsapp chat group telling us that when we die it is the end of everything after being buried or cremated.
As I am not quite comfortable with such thinking, I quickly use my cheap smart phone to churn up my answer so that can be shared by anyone who may equally believe the same end of life
Unfortunately my cheap smart phone does not allow me to switch off the auto correct
Hence there are plenty of errors here and there in spelling, grammar, missing or repetitive words, irrational construction of the sentences among many others
I have no access to my home computer for nearly four months now as I am now hospitalized for a venous stasis leg ulcer which is extremely difficult to manage.
When I get home I shall edit and polish up this article considerably and largely expand it I have much, much more to add my thoughts.
I therefore apologize on behalf of my smart phone which is forever auto correcting against what I intend to write
But this is temporary till I can get home to use my computer so long you can figure out what I am trying to pen here
Thank you for reading
Kindly
Lim Ju Boo
"And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soil, but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell"
(Matthews 10:28)
"and the dust returns to the ground it came from, and the spirit returns to God who gave it"
(Ecclesiastes 12:7)
The spirit was never judged to return to the soil because it was breathed into Adam by the breath of God. The body return as dust but the Spirit escapes elsewhere.
The spirit, soul, life force or ghost can never be annihilated or become extinct. It will remain throughout all eternity because it is the breath of God. Everything about God or is part of God is eternal.
The Soul of the Body
Our soul is part of His breath and is made to live forever as a spirit
"The first man Adam became a living being; the last Adam, a life giving spirit"
(1 Corinthian 15:45)
Jesus Holy Ghost
"When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said , It is finished: and he bowed his head , and gave up the GHOST
(John 19:30)
And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, Father into thy hands I commend my spirit : and having said thus, he gave up the GHOST
(Luke 23:46)
Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, YEILDED UP THE GHOST
(Matthew 27:50)
Now, doesn't those verses recorded in John, Luke and Matthew speak for itself that there is a GHOST or a spirit in Jesus, and that ghost will appear in body form again in Jesus after his death when he appeared again before his disciples besides the Sea of Galilee.
This is now the third time that Jesus shewed Himself to His disciples after he was risen from the dead
(John 21:14)
All these verses clearly tell us there is a ghost in Jesus and in us too that will unite with us in Jesus one day
The Lamp of Life:
Life forces or the"breath of life"
is exactly like a flame of a lamp..
The lamp represents our complete body. The wick represents the pathways the biochemical reactions takes as it draws nutrients to be burnt which is the flame of life itself.
The oil in the lamp are all the fuel and nutrients from food we consume, being stored in the body to be metabolized as a flame
The warmth and the light of the flame is life itself.
The lamp if not lit is just a dead lamp with no life, no light and no heat.. nothing. So is a dead body
Each lamp if placed in a row remains unlit until the flame of life is transferred from the first lamp to next lamp until the entire world is aglow with lamps of life.
The spiritual flame once lit cannot be destroyed. It is transferred into into another body or to another lamp to give it the flame of life.
This is exactly how a living creature has to sacrifice itself as food in order to transfer its life forces to another creature in order to give it life
If you take a cow for instance, it has to sacrifice its life, but only once in order to give its life to another living creature, say to a human being who eats its beef But that fuel of life is limited
The Eternal Flame:
But not with Lord Jesus, His life is eternal and His spiritual fuel is unlimited.
So when people ask me how can Jesus who died only once over 2,000 years ago can give eternal life to countless billions of people who believe in Him
My answer to them is simple.
Jesus life is unlimited. He is an Eternal Flame that can never be extinguished.
If there is a lamp that continues to burn an eternal flame, that lamp can continue to transfer its flame from lamp to lamp without any end. So is with Lord Jesus
Unfortunately there is no life on Earth where its life forces is unlimited.
It can only give its life just to the next living body as food to drive the chemistry of life that scientists know very well.
Wisdom not Knowledge:
For the elite and learned scientists seeing is believing, but for me, I only seek for wisdom in my daily prayers in order to believe
So for me, I believe first, only then I see.
Note:
I am sorry this is just a quick answer to three people who wrote into my Whatsapp chat group telling us that when we die it is the end of everything after being buried or cremated.
As I am not quite comfortable with such thinking, I quickly use my cheap smart phone to churn up my answer so that can be shared by anyone who may equally believe the same end of life
Unfortunately my cheap smart phone does not allow me to switch off the auto correct
Hence there are plenty of errors here and there in spelling, grammar, missing or repetitive words, irrational construction of the sentences among many others
I have no access to my home computer for nearly four months now as I am now hospitalized for a venous stasis leg ulcer which is extremely difficult to manage.
When I get home I shall edit and polish up this article considerably and largely expand it I have much, much more to add my thoughts.
I therefore apologize on behalf of my smart phone which is forever auto correcting against what I intend to write
But this is temporary till I can get home to use my computer so long you can figure out what I am trying to pen here
Thank you for reading
Kindly
Lim Ju Boo
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