What If Jesus Meant More Than We Have Been Taught
Many of us grew up hearing that Jesus died to pay a debt for our sins, that faith in His sacrifice would bring salvation, and that heaven would be our reward if we believed. These teachings have comforted many and they hold pieces of truth. But when we look closely at the spirit of Jesus’ life and words, something deeper begins to shine through. It is something more personal, more transforming, and filled with a love that meets the soul where it is.
When Jesus spoke of the Kingdom of God, He did not describe a place we enter only after death. He said, “The Kingdom of God is within you.” That means the kingdom is something alive within the soul. It is not a prize earned later but a change of heart that begins here and now. Jesus was showing that eternal life is not distant and future. It begins when the soul opens and receives the Love of the Father.
We are often taught that faith means believing that Jesus’ death satisfied a debt. But Jesus pointed to a different kind of faith, the trust that opens the heart so the Father’s Love can enter and make the soul new. When He healed, He said, “Your faith has made you whole.” That faith was not belief in a transaction. It was a trust that He was transforming the soul.
Jesus did not come to change God’s attitude toward humanity. He came to change humanity’s heart toward God. The Father has always loved His children. It is we who forgot how to receive that Love. Jesus showed that the true way to salvation is through prayer for the inflowing of the Father’s Love which makes the soul at one with Him.
Much of tradition speaks of sin as a legal guilt requiring payment. Jesus spoke of it as a condition of the soul, a separation from God’s Love. Redemption, then, is not a legal pardon but a healing. When the Father’s Love enters, sin falls away just as darkness disappears when light fills a room. Nothing is paid. Nothing is earned. The soul is changed from within. This is mercy in its highest form, not justice satisfied but love restoring what was lost.
Eternal life does not begin after death. Jesus taught that it begins when the soul is born anew through the inflowing of the Father’s Love. He called this the New Birth. He meant it literally. It is a real transformation. Those who receive this Love become divine in nature, sharing in the very essence of God. Heaven is not a reward for belief. Heaven is simply the natural home of the soul that has been filled with God’s Love.
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