Christ vs Krishna

CHRIST vs KRISHNA - RE-READING SAKES
M. M. NINAN
The misrepresentation of the Bible passages of the soul going to heaven or hell as
soon as the life becomes extinct is never better explained than in the death and
promise of our Saviour to the believing thief, Luke xiii, 48. For “Jesus said unto him,
Verily, I say unto thee to-day shall thou be with me in Paradise.”
And there the Lord Jesus Christ preached to the souls that were already in waiting ;
speaks emphatically of the tenet the Roman Catholics hold of the existence of a
purgatory 1 Peter iii. 12. And in Acts II 30 it is also declared that, God had sworn with
an oath to the patriarch David, that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he
would raise up Christ, to sit on his* throne.31 He, seeing this before, spake of the
resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh did so
corruption 32. This Jesus God raised up, whereof we all are witnesses,," By which we
conclude that there is an intermediate place where the soul is purged but only those,
of believers, whose debt has been discharged by His sacrificial offering. Those who
reject this great mercy so freely offered must, take the consequences as traitors. In
verification of this belief 1 may quote the instance of Lazarus and the rich man, who
were evidently in the same place within sight of one another, and, like the civil and the
criminal prisoners in the earthly jail, under different administrations. One is waiting for
his release, and the other for his punishment on account of his treasonable offence.
The former in perfect immunity from any suffering, while the latter is groaning under
the weight of the fetters with which he is shackled. This subtantiates the presumptive
belief that the souls of the departed, prior to and after the flood, inhabited Paradise
until the resurrection of Christ, Hence it goes further to prove that the souls of the
departed ones will ascend on the coming reascension of Christ, as has been so clearly
predicted.
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