Henry Ward Beecher learned the Truths about Jesus’ teachings, around some 1900 years after they had been ministered to people, on earth, about their relationship to our Creator.
Continued from previous Blog: “No spirit has this Immortality just because it is continuing to live in the spirit world and cannot imagine that by any possibility that continuation of life can ever be arrested or ended. No such spirit knows that to be true because it has never been demonstrated as a fact – and it cannot be, until eternity comes to an “end.” Such spirit is no different, in its essemce and potentialities, from what it was when enfolded in the flesh, and has no greater reason for believing that it is immortal than it had when on earth. As Change is the Law Eternal in the spirit world, as well as on earth, they could not, with any certainty of knowledge say, there might not be some change in the spirit world that would break or set aside this continuity of existence.
“Take the young child, when the intellect has not been sufficiently developed to understand that there is such a thing as death of the physical body, and she believes that she will continue to live forever on earth. And so with these philosophers who had the hope of a future continuation of life, and with the spirits who know that there is a continuous life – they think that life must be a fixed state, and must of necessity continue forever.
“No spirit can say that it is immortal unless it partakes of God’s Divine Essence, and no wise philosopher, or religious teacher, prior to the coming of Jesus, could be said to have “brought immortality to light.” While hope and speculation exist as children of desire, yet knowledge is wanting and certainty is absent. The immortality, then, that humans believe in, and comfort themselves with believing, is the immortality that hope created and speculation proved. And the experience of them in communicating with spirits showed that death had not annihilated the individual – but hope and speculation and experience did not create knowledge.
“When Jesus came as the Messiah, he brought with him not only hope, but knowledge of Immortality. Not many humans have comprehended it, nor understood the reason for such knowledge. The teachers of the Bible never disclosed the true foundation upon which this knowledge exists.”
Read more in, The Godpel of God’s Love.