Hello Curtis,You wrote,
This website does not have any information regarding punishment or justice in the next life. What we do in this life is bound to have some type of effect in the next life.
There is no judgment or punishment in the next life. I know that sounds odd because our Western culture is so full of hell and judgment things. But none of it's true. Here's why.
In the spiritual realm, things like numbers of bodies make no difference. If a person kills
one person or 6 million, neither makes a difference. Bodies don't matter spiritually. What matters is the inner person--who the person is. That's inside, like attitude and love and compassion. That's all that matters in
the spiritual realm. What that means is that Hitler was an angry man, full of hate. He was a highly effective public speaker and roused the people to follow him and kill Jews, Russians, British, Americans, Polish, and anyone else who got in their way. But what matters isn't the number of bodies that were killed. It's just who he was—a spiritually stunted man.
Now, what that means is that Hitler was full of hate, but so are people you meet every day. If those people you know who are angry and hateful were talented public speakers and had the opportunity to lead a country into hate, they'd do the same thing Hitler did. And they'd be the same as Hitler in the spiritual realm, even though they couldn't lead people to kill other
people--inside, they are the same.
And each of us has moments when we're full of anger and hate. During those times, we're the same as the inner man that Hitler was. If Hitler is to be judged and punished, shouldn't we be too? Who is without sin?
In the spiritual realm, every person is on a path to becoming spiritually mature. That means some people are more filled with anger and hate than others. Some people are full of love and compassion. But they're just at different points on the path. We shouldn't judge and condemn someone
because they're not at the right point on the path. Otherwise, those ahead of us could judge and condemn us when we get angry or feel hate at times. And we'd definitely be punished because there's always someone more spiritually mature, more loving, and more compassionate.
What's important is that each person is growing and becoming more tolerant, loving, peaceful, and compassionate. Some are at a very early stage in their development. Others are at an advanced stage. But we shouldn't judge and punish those who are still children spiritually, even if they do things in the earth realm that are horrid. What actually happens in the earth realm, such as killing, means nothing in the spiritual realm. Only the spiritual ramifications matter.
I'm not a Christian, but Yeshua (Jesus) said that if someone feels anger, it's the same as committing murder. He wasn't saying that to judge or condemn, and wasn't saying being angry is the same as killing someone. He was just saying that the anger is what matters spiritually. The murder is just a consequence of the anger. That means we're all little Hitlers at times. And we need to learn to change our own little Hitlers instead of
judging the other Hitlers in the world.
You wrote,
Lets take sex for example, so many young people this day an age are sleeping with everybody, it's just the thing young people do these days. I am waiting for the right girl and I will not go around sleeping with a new girl every few weeks etc. Will I be rewarded in the next life for this? Or is it like here on earth, people who follow the rules get nothing, but people who break the rules get thrown in jail.
No one is judged. Besides, what we regard as “right” or “wrong” changes with time. Everything you think is “wrong” today has been “right” at some time or among some people.
You wrote,
This has been bugging me for a long time and I don't really know what to think. I might have been poisoned by Religion into thinking that pre marital sex is BAD and I would be punished.
Nothing is “bad” in the sense you’re thinking of. Instead, your inner self, who you are, has a level of being loving and compassionate and a level of being angry and hostile to tohers. That’s simply a condition your mind or soul is in. A mountain can’t be “bad” or “good.” It just is. That’s what the condition of your mind is. You are at some point in spiritual growth. That’s all you can say.
As for sex, physical acts have nothing to do with spirituality—no physical acts, including sex. Spirituality has nothing to do with anything in the material realm. If someone seduces someone and that makes the seduced person feel used, dirty, or depressed, then the fact that the seducer has shown such little regard for another person shows he or she is on a lower spiritual development level. But that’s all. It doesn’t mean they’re “bad” and they certainly won’t be judged by anyone anytime on this plane or the next plane of life.
Love and peace, Craig