GGJ5b

Jakob Lorber – The Great Gospel of John, vol. 5, part B
it from you; it is better for you to enter the kingdom of heaven crippled or
lame than having two hands or two feet, to be cast into the eternal fire!‖
(Mt.18:8) And if your eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it from
you; for it is better to enter the kingdom of heaven with one eye than, having
two eyes, be cast into the hell of fire!‖ (Mt.18:9)
[GGJ.05_244,09] At this Peter, who did not really like this lesson, rose and
said, ―But Lord, do You no longer remember the words that You said among
the poor fishermen about the essence of hell, about judgment and about the
eternal punishments of the lost souls? Yes, those were lessons which every
healthy human reason must greet with the highest joy! But what You have
now taught in a sort of excitement wipes away everything previous, and the
old hell with its eternal punishments and its Satans and devils and fires
stands again as before in the fully unchanged form before us, and we also
have a very angriest God before us again! I knew that we would come back
to the old things and the Indians with their terrible atoning mutilations have
thus the only true and correct religion for life!
[GGJ.05_244,10] You see, I present the example that exactly this left hand of
mine annoys me! So that it cannot possibly further annoy me, I take an axe at
Your command and cut the annoying hand off, which would obviously give
me death without a fast help from a doctor. But I present the valuable case
that I am healed and then go on very cheerfully. But it happens that the right
hand begins to annoy me then. According to this lesson of Yours, I should cut
it off too for the sake of the kingdom of heaven, which is however completely
impossible now. So it now begs the question what I have to do in this case in
order not to lose the kingdom of heaven!
[GGJ.05_244,11] My dear Lord and Master! With this teaching it will not be
as You have now said! But whether there is another meaning behind it, that
is a question which would be very difficult for any man, however wise, to
answer. Before he thus accepts it naked as true and legally serious as You
have just said, he will take his time and certainly remain with his old religion. I
myself, as valuable as Your kingdom of heaven is and can be, indeed want to
earn it through all possible self-denial, but never through cutting of my hands
and feet and plucking out my eyes! Instead of that one would rather take his
whole life, and then one is quite safe from all stumbling blocks!‖
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[GGJ.05_245,01] With these words of Peter‘s all the other apostles except for
John agreed. But this one however took up the word and said, ―But, dear
brothers, how can you all now get so worked up about this as if the Lord had
given us quite a new religion! Do you not remember then the words of the
Lord on the mountain in Samaria! Then the Lord spoke about the stumbling
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