FAITH, SCIENCE AND THE SUPERNATURAL

FAITH, SCIENCE AND THE SUPERNATURAL

The Missing Jigsaws of Christianity

Eva Fogarasi Bálint


GBP 17,50

Format: 13.5 x 21.5
Number of Pages: 214
ISBN: 978-3-99064-360-0
Release Date: 07.09.2018
Discover a new way of looking at religion and you may find your questions answered! A novel and pragmatic take on religion and science; Eva F. Bálint combines her spiritual beliefs with her scientific ones and opens up a world of possibilities.
During my theological studies and later as a priest in the Swedish church I realized that supernatural phenomena do not fit in the restrictive theological framework of the institutional Christianity. Biblical science and rigid dogmas stand in the center when teaching and talking about God and belief. Christianity has become the religion of the Book – The Bible and not of experiencing God. Martin Luther, John Calvin and other theologians of Reformation mistrusted religious experiences. They put the word, The Bible and preaching at the center.
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After many conversations with Christians in Sweden and other European countries, I have come to the conclusion that many people question some of the strange dogmas of their religion. They are confused because of the contradictory image of God as found in the Old Testament and The New Testament, as well as of questions like:
is The Old Testament really a holy book, even though it contains stories about Moses, Joshua, David and other religious leaders who encourage genocide and war in the name of God?
can God be loving and merciful but cruel and punitive at the same time?
do people really inherit sin already when being born?
could God not forgive sins without sacrificing his son on the cross?
if Jesus died for our sins, why should he judge the living and the dead at the end of times?
is it right to believe in paranormal phenomena that the institutional church rejects?
is faith compatible with science?

To contemplate these questions is much easier than giving a final answer to them.
While I was searching for the missing jigsaws of Christianity, I was surprised to find that there are many similarities between Jesus teaching about the spheres and the life beyond and what mediums and people with paranormal abilities report, as well as what scientists assert about the visible and invisible reality.
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Many scientists think that a comprehensive understanding of the laws of nature and of the universe is actually beyond the rational thinking.
“The only thing we do know is that what we think today will be a thing of the past tomorrow” writes the nuclear physicist Gary Zukav in his book The Dancing WO-LI Masters. However, despite shortcomings and limitations, quantum mechanics help nuclear physicists to research the subatomic particles of matter, may they be visible or invisible. They have discovered, for example, that subatomic particles act after decisions taken elsewhere. This ‘elsewhere’ can be as far away as in another galaxy! Scientists also say that subatomic particles can be in two places at the same time, that is they “bilocate”.
Can this interesting discovery be a start for scientific explanation of supernatural phenomena? Will scientists soon prove that powers belonging to an unknown, invisible reality may influence the decisions and actions in our physical world? Jesus maintains that he comes from another world (sphere) and that the words he speaks and the works he does are not on his own authority, but the Father who dwells in him does the works. May his statement be interpreted that all he did and said was decided and controlled elsewhere?
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According to the gnostics and several scripts found in Nag Hammadi, the mission of Jesus on Earth was not to save mankind from sin through a bloody sacrifice on the cross but to teach spiritual insight and to give gnosis – knowledge about the spheres of the universe as well as about the spiritual origin of humans. 
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The disciples who had listened several times to Jesus’ discourses about the universe, about the visible and the invisible reality, were scared every time when they were confronted with the Master’s double nature, the physical and the spiritual one. They certainly believed in his paranormal abilities but never understood the mystery behind them. They did not realize that Jesus probably took advantage of the relativity of space and time when passing the “borders” of the different dimensions of uni/multiverse. He was able to change the vibration frequency of his matter-body every time when moving between the visible and invisible world.
According to Einstein space and time are not separated but they form a unit that he calls space-time which actually is relative. Two thousand years before Einstein, Jesus also talked about the relativity of time and space when saying to the disciples:

“If you consider how long the world has existed before you and how long it will exist after you, you will see that your life is but a day and your sufferings but an hour.”
(NH Scriptures, The Secret Book of James 4,22)
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Experiencing the supernatural is not easy. At first one is scared, shaken and overwhelmed and then one is filled with joy but sometimes also with skepticism. “Can it be true? Am I crazy? How could it happen? Is there any scientific explanation? Can teleportation be a scientific explanation of the out-of-body phenomena? Was Jesus teleported from one dimension to another? Was he really able to bilocate?”, are questions that people have in the mind.
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According to gnostic scriptures, Jesus had many interesting dialogues with his nearest disciples about the human nature. He said that the spirit, the soul, the mind and consciousness inhabit the physical body which is only a perishable garment. He encouraged the disciples to know themselves pointing out the divine origin as well as the double nature of humans. He talked about the difference between the spirit (Greek: pneuma) and the soul (Greek: psyche) and said that soul is actually the captured spirit in the body. He said:
“He (the Father) knows about desire and what flesh needs. Does it not desire the soul? The body does not sin apart from the soul just as the soul is not saved apart from the spirit. But if the soul is saved from evil and the spirit too is saved, the body becomes sinless. The spirit animates the soul but the body kills it …” (The Secret Book of James, 11,30)
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It is doubtful that Jesus encouraged his disciples and followers “to eat his flesh and drink his blood” while he was alive. It is more probably that the author of the text, or later editors have put together different sayings of Jesus making an own interpretation of them. Actually, we do not read this story in any other scripts.
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One should also recall that spreading false and contradictory rumors about Jesus and his teaching has always been the purpose of some groups who never could accept him. To assert that Jesus had encouraged his followers to eat his flesh and drink his blood was certainly a good way to discourage Jews from converting to Christianity.
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Most research in modern times has been focused on the “matter-body”. Biologists and physicists talk about living cells originating from lifeless matter without having managed yet to prove, despite advanced technical equipment, that their theory is correct.
Scientists researching the “clay-body” concentrate on the visible physical figure of humans and do not have much to say about man’s thoughts and feelings, about soul, spirit and consciousness that is the invisible, yet very real part of man. Their instruments are not suited to explore all the aspects and mysteries of the human existence. Nor can their largest space telescopes give us right information and knowledge of the universe or of multiple universes. Why? Perhaps because their earthly, matter- instruments are suited only to the physical world that we are able to perceive. As they cannot reach beyond the frequency bands of the visible and palpable world, the most important existential questions concerning creation are not yet scientifically answered.
Are we, humans only a clod of cells, of chemical substances and subatomic particles? Are we really only “clay” figures or are we more complex beings?
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S OUR “CHIMPANZEE BRAIN” ABLE TO CREATE AND STORE THOUGHTS?
It is said that the following joke is circulating among brain surgeons:
An astronaut just returned from a space trip when he met a friend who was brain surgeon.
“Now I am quite sure that God does not exist! I’ve been out in space and did not seen him. “
“Well,” said the brain surgeon. “I have carried out many brain operations, but I have not seen a single thought. That does not mean that thoughts do not exist.”

This simple joke points out the dilemma of scientists researching the “mysteries” of the human brain. For the truth is that, despite all research, no one has so far managed to locate a single thought in the human brain. It is paradoxical that, although all scientific research is based on thinking, there is no instrument that can show what a brain surgeon thinks while operating the brain of a patient.
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“What is consciousness and where is it localized?” is a question that, besides the one about mind, memory and soul should be answered as it touches the utmost existential question of life and death. If we suppose that thoughts, consciousness and soul are not products of the matter-body but of an “out-of-body control system”, then we may hope that our thoughts and feelings “survive” in an out-of-body memory-bank when our physical body dies.
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Research on near-death experiences also indicates that each person has an out of body “memory-bank”, in religious contexts often called The Book of Life, that stores information on what one has done and experienced during the earthly life. Raymond A. Moody and other researchers of near-death experience report that people who did a journey on the other side, could see a review of their life. They did not only see the events but they even experienced the immediate emotional impact of their deeds. They could feel the grief and the pain caused to another person when acting badly, but they also could feel happiness when helping and being kind to a person. They learned and concluded that love is the most important in life.
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Christian historians and theologians accept Luke’s assertion that Mary and Joseph were in Judea, in the city of David, called Bethlehem when Mary gave birth to her child. However, there are several evidences that Luke’s statement is wrong and that it is more credible that Mary gave birth to her child in another Bethlehem situated in Galilee at a distance of only 11 km from Nazareth.
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When the Russian doctor Nicholas Notovitch (1858–after 1916) journeyed throughout Afghanistan, India and Tibet in order to do his own researches, he got surprising information about Jesus in a Buddhist convent.
During his journey down into the arid rocky land of Ladak Notovitch had an accident and his leg was broken, so he had to stay for a time at the Himis convent.
While he was there, he learned that there existed ancient records of the life of Jesus. A Buddhist monk showed him two large yellowed volumes containing the biography of Jesus who was called St. Issa in Asia.
As the scrolls contained information about Jesus visiting India and Tibet before and after the crucifixion, Notovitch was accused of creating a hoax and was ridiculed as an imposter. In his defense he encouraged a scientific expedition to prove that the original Tibetan documents really existed. He even contacted Cardinal Rotelli in Rome and handed him over the translated scripts hoping that the Vatican would start a research.
Later Notovitch sustained that in the library of the Vatican there were 63 documents originating from Asia about Jesus and his disciple Thomas who stayed in India.
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The traditional Christian theology claims that Jesus died as an “Offer Lamb” on the cross without taking into account texts that contradict this statement. There are several biblical as well as other scripts describing Jesus eating, drinking and walking with the disciples after the crucifixion. Believing that he performed all these activities in a resurrected “spirit body”, is unrealistic.

At first the disciples are perplexed and scared when Jesus presents himself, and they think that he is “a spirit”. The Master understands their skepticism and fear and helps them to overcome their doubts:
“Jesus himself stood in the midst of them, and said to them, ‘Peace to you.’
But they were terrified and frightened, and supposed they had seen a spirit.
And he said to them, ‘Why are you troubled? And why do doubts arise in your hearts?
‘Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself. Handle me and see, for a spirit does not have flesh and bones as you see I have.’
When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his feet.
But while they still did not believe for joy, and marvelled, he said to them,
‘Have you any food here?’
So they gave him a piece of a broiled fish and some honeycomb.
And he took it and ate in their presence” (Luke 24:36–43)
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The author of The Secret Book of James renders an interesting report of Jesus’ appearing to a few disciples five hundred fifty days after the crucifixion.
“The twelve disciples were all sitting together, recalling what the Savior had said to each of them, whether in a hidden or an open manner, and organizing it in books. I was writing what is in my book. Look, the Savior appeared, after he had left us, while we were watching for him.
Five hundred fifty days after he rose from the dead, we said to him, ‘Did you depart and leave us?’
Jesus said, No, but I shall return to the place from which I came. If you want to come with me, come.’
They all answered and said, ‘If you order us, we’ll come.’” (NH, The Secret Book of James 2,7 … page 24)

This text suggests that Jesus was not dead and therefore the disciples were “watching for him”. James’ question “did you depart and leave us?” can be interpreted that Jesus stayed away from the disciples, maybe because of his bad physical condition after the crucifixion or because he feared the Jews who were searching for him.
We may also wonder what place Jesus referred to when saying “I shall return to the place from which I came.” More than that, he invites the disciples to follow him to that place.
Did he invite the disciples to go with him to India or Tibet where he had been before the crucifixion?
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Christian theologians of all the institutional denominations claim that the unauthorized scripts are wrong when rendering that the 33 years old Master survived the cross and later left Galilee for India where he kept on teaching until he became “old”. However, there is one script whose validity the clergy should not doubt, and this is Against Heresies, written by bishop Irenaeus (died about 202) who actually reports about Jesus’ being “old”.
“So, likewise, he was an old man … Now, that the first stage of early life embraces thirty years, and that this extends onwards to the fortieth year, everyone will admit; but from the fortieth and fiftieth year a man begins to decline toward old age, which our Lord possessed while still fulfilled the office of a teacher … those who were conversant in Asia with John, the disciple of the Lord, (affirming) that John conveyed to them that information … Some of them , moreover, saw not only John, but the other apostles also, and heard the very same account from them, and bear testimony as to the validity of the statement.” (Early Church Fathers; Irenaeus, Against Heresies, 2:22; 4–6)
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The time has come now that the truth comes to the light. We have to open our “bewitched” eyes and mind and repent all the mistakes committed
against God, in whose name wars were started and people were tortured,
against Jesus, who has been accused, tortured and misinter---
preted,
and against all Christians in the world who have been bereaved of the true knowledge about the One, The Supreme Being of the universe because scripts have been misinterpreted, destroyed or hidden.

A new reformation of Christ’s Church is needed, this time on a deeper level, liberating Christianity from its old bewitched state. We have to put aside texts which:
legitimate oppression,
teach about a cruel and punishing God who wants to destroy his own creation at the end of times,
set up religious and profane leaders from the Old Testament as examples to be followed despite of them having lived and acted like offenders of the Commandments;
distort the truth about Jesus and his purpose on Earth, and
threaten with a final apocalyptic at the “end of time”, when the chosen ones will be saved and the others will be doomed.

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