“Behold the man has become as one of us to know good and evil, now lest he put forth his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat and live forever.”
To be a true Christian, to be one with Jesus, to know God, to find our grace, we have to become what the bible says Jesus is... the son of man.
"No one has ascended into heaven except the One who descended from heaven — the Son of Man." - John 3:13
Son of Man?
The Bible refers to Jesus as the "son of man" many times more than it refers to him as the son of God. But the story of Jesus is that he was the son of God and the son of man. Both metaphors are used in the bible to illustrate we can become what Jesus says he is.
What does the bible mean in John 3:13?
You become the son of man if you give birth to yourself.
If you interpret “son of man” literally, that is the only thing it can mean. When you are born again in your current body, you become the son of man, the son of your own mind, the son of yourself. You become what the Bible says Jesus was.
Jesus said, “Only men not born of woman will see heaven.”
Jesus said, "you must be born again to see heaven."
Jesus said, "you must be born of spirit to get to heaven."
"You also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour you do not expect.” - Luke 12:40
“Behold the man has become as one of us to know good and evil, now lest he put forth his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat and live forever.”
Become as one of us" and "eat and live forever": Why is that in the Bible? It basically says there is more than one god, and we can be one. It is exactly the opposite of what people believe the Bible says. They believe there is only one God, and the best we can do is live in his kingdom.
"And GOD said, Let US make man in OUR image, after OUR likeness." - Genesis 1:26
The above quote says, the enlightened ones, like Jesus, can assist in making man into what Jesus says he is. To know and understand what Jesus called the Truth and the Life.
When you learn the truth and the life, you become the offspring or creation of yourself, your own mind. Thus, you literally become the son of man. You now have found your grace, you have become one with God.
“Lord," said Thomas, “we do not know where You are going, so how can we know the way?” Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. - John 14:5-6
Now is the time for Christians to be like Jesus... to be Christ like. To be what Jesus says he is and was you have to know the Truth and the life.
Once you know the truth and the life, you no longer need faith, because you have what you had faith in. You are where you want to be, and you always will be.
Faith in the truth is necessary to get you through any trials and tribulations you may have to get past when making the transition into a spiritual being.
The Bible says that those who believe in Jesus will have eternal life.
In other words, those who believe in the truth and the life will have the truth and the life. Jesus = the truth and the life. Those are his words, not mine. Jesus says you have to believe in the truth and the life to get eternal life.
Faith in the truth and the life is essential until you know the truth and the life. If you have faith you will know, you will know; if not in this life, you will in the next.
It is not true just because Jesus said it; it is true because it has to be true. The truth and the life is the only way, because nothing else truly exists. All truly enlightened beings tell us the same thing. Just in different ways and from different perspectives. The truth and the life was described by many so called prophets... the Buddha for example explained simply as "The Present Moment".
Keep in mind, having faith in just the name Jesus and an image of the way you think he looked two-thousand years ago is not the way. That is a graven image, and one of the ten commandments says not to worship a graven image, so why do people that call themselves Christians and say they believe in the Bible do it?
It is just a fantasy created by the mind. You have to see Jesus the way he says he is now. Jesus said, “I am in spirit and truth,” “I am the truth and the life.” If you have faith in what Jesus says he is, you have the faith that will get you to heaven.
Faith now: Some people’s minds will be too strong for them to overcome the control of their animal mind before the body they have now dies or is killed, so faith in the real thing, not a myth, is essential to have right now. It is the way.
Having faith in the truth and the life is all most people will be able to truly have in this world because of the influence of other minds, but as Jesus said, faith in him is all you need to get to heaven in the next life.
All you have to do is try your best (help the truth) and have faith the truth and the life is the way to go to heaven when you die, just as Jesus says.
Follow Jesus: You express your faith by seeking the truth and the life at all times. You follow Jesus by trying your best to spread the truth and the life, even if all you have yourself is faith it is the way, and no one understands you. You just need faith in the truth and the life in this life to get heaven in the next, and it will come quicker than people think.
You have true faith right now if you have faith in the truth and the life.
Hope/belief: Believing and hoping something is true or going to be true does not make it true if you do not start with the real truth. It is the truth, or it is not. There is no way to make something that is not true, true.
Hope is a waking dream. - Aristotle
Faith in faith is not the way:
In and of itself, belief, faith, hope, wishing, good luck charms, holy relics, symbols, positive thinking, good intentions, praying, curses, voodoo, magic spells, fortune tellers, psychics, etc. do not do anything except make people feel like they have some control over life. They are just coping strategies.
If you believe a fairytale or myth is true, you will not live happily ever after.
People who currently have faith and belief in a myth are a force against the truth and the life. They are the deceived, and if they pass it on, are the deceivers.
The people that think they are closest to God and doing God’s work are actually the farthest away and doing the devil’s work, the work of the deceiver.
In the past, the truth could not be known by most people, so faith was all they could have. They will be forgiven for deceiving people if they change now. People’s faith in myths was necessary to get us to where we are now, but now that the truth is revealed, faith is just a bridge to knowing.
Saying that you see things that do not exist is a sin, the worst sin possible. It is giving false witness, which is against one of the ten commandments.
http://www.truthcontest.com/entries/the-present-with-religion/