[Shincheonji Answer 16] The Rich and Heaven

 

[Shincheonji Answer 16]

The Rich and Heaven

 

• Mr. Lee Byoungchul, Question 16.

The Bible compares a rich man entering heaven to a camel going through a needle’s eye. Does this mean the rich are evil?

 

 

• Shincheonji Answer 16.

The rich are not evil.
There are two types of rich people: one is rich in terms of material wealth and the other is rich at heart. The end result of someone materially wealthy and someone who is materially poor is the same. They both have twenty-four hours and eat three meals a day. What is the difference?

However, it is different for those who are rich at heart.
If the rich cannot enter heaven, why did God give Job more possessions? People who are rich at heart do not lack anything, so they become complacent and do not seek. The materially rich feel like their bowls are still not full so they seek and work to gain more material wealth.

If one comes to know oneself and the true God, whether one has a lot of authority or much wealth, one would realize what the true treasure is and seek for it. The true treasure is life. Rather than seeking for food which perishes like a dream, people must seek after the food which does not perish and is eternal.

※ The Rich in their hearts (People who are rich at heart)

Spiritual Israelites do not have a heart that seeks to keep the New Testament and enter heaven. They have become rich in their hearts, and they are complacent.

[Shincheonji Answer 7] Jesus & Our Sins

[Shincheonji Answer 7]

Jesus and Our Sins

• Mr. Lee Byoungchul, Question 7th

It is said Jesus came and died to atone for our sins. What are our sins? Why did God leave us alone to commit sin?

• Shincheonji Answer 7th

The price of sin is death (Rom 6:23).
What kind of sin did we commit?
Since Jesus died on behalf of us to pay the price of sin, our sins have been atoned. Is the reality of being atoned for really reflected in the way we live now? Also, why did God leave us to commit sin? You have asked good questions. If you were living right now, I would go to you right away and give you the answer.

But for now, I pray and ask Jesus to help Mr. LeeByoungchul, who is in Hades, come to know the true meaning of religion, repent, understand and attain salvation (1 Pt 3, 4). Jesus speaks on behalf of God and I came to speak on behalf of Jesus.

• Explanation:

The Creator God does not have a genealogy.
He is the only God, who is self-existent (Ex 3:14).
Our sin is not keeping and obeying God’s word (covenant), but believing the words of the traitor (Gn 2:17; Gn 3), Satan (snake), who said we would be like God.

The Creator, who is the Father, told his son, who is a created being, he would die if he ate the fruit of the tree (of good and evil).
This is similar to a covenant God made with his son.
Although they knew this (truth, fact, knowledge), their sin was the fact they believed in the words of the snake (devil), who said they would become like God if they ate the fruit.
This is a spiritual sin through which they turned their backs (betrayal) against the Father.

This is the sin we have committed.
The Father did not leave his son alone to commit sin.
The son chose to sin. In the end, the words of the serpent were lies and God’s word was the truth.

Jesus’ blood of atonement was commemorated until the Second Coming with the bread and the wine (Mt 26), and it is effective at the Second Coming.
Look at Revelation chapters 5 and 7.
This is not a lie; it is the truth.

• Main references: Revelation 1:5

and from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood,