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HEAVEN AND HELL: IN CHRIST SHALL ALL BE MADE ALIVE: PROF.M.M.NINAN<br />
It is here we see the place of Gilgulim - a possibility whereby, the ruling of the Karma court is<br />
possibly over ruled <strong>and</strong> a new verdict could be possible.<br />
Unlike the Indian concept <strong>and</strong> even the Orthodox Jew concept, gilgulim simply is a new birth.<br />
This is a change in the spiritual status like the concept Christian New Birth where there is no<br />
getting back into anew womb - as Jesus told Nicodemus. It need not necessarily mean having a<br />
new material body - but having a new spiritual body. This concept actually was fully presented by<br />
Jesus even though it was in place as confession, repentance <strong>and</strong> penance long before. It is this<br />
that is pesented in the Rosh Hashana <strong>and</strong> Yom Kippur days.<br />
GILGULIM = "You must be born again" (John 3)<br />
Alternatively God could have overturned some of these by his grace so that the <strong>Hell</strong> period was<br />
sufficient to pay for the sins <strong>and</strong> the paradise period was sufficient to pay for the good things some<br />
have done. At any rate both the paradise <strong>and</strong> the hell are a continuation of the life here <strong>and</strong> now.<br />
Paradise is a time of returning home to the family <strong>and</strong> hell a journey away from the family of one's<br />
own choice state.<br />
Alternative is that Gehenna can repeat additional 11 months until the spirit is fully purged.<br />
the judgement will be relevant to check the purification level.<br />
Then<br />
Otherwise the Gehenna will become eternal hell for those who would not manage to be purified in<br />
11 months. But Judaism do permit repeat process purgation <strong>and</strong> even re-incarnation back to<br />
earth.<br />
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It is interesting to note that the Dravids who are of the original tribes of Abraham (the original<br />
tribe of Keturah the second wife of Abraham <strong>and</strong> her children through Abraham later joined<br />
them in Mohen-Jodero <strong>and</strong> Harappa which is now in Pakistan.) were the first to develop the<br />
theory of Karma in their Upanishads. The Aryan Vedas do not present Karma though<br />
probably they later borrowed it.<br />
Brahmanas (commentaries on Vedas which are in Sanskrit <strong>and</strong> hence of recent origin)<br />
postulated that rebirth in (a different) world would be for the ones who do good deeds, - the<br />
Pardadise or <strong>Heaven</strong>. Others die <strong>and</strong> perish into hell of Yama, unable to live again. Yama is<br />
the God of the Dead. "yama" is again simply "time". It could thus mean lost in time - die out.<br />
Thus this is equivalent to annihilation or continued life in the hell they created. In the Aryan<br />
Vedic concept, after the death the various parts of the body <strong>and</strong> life energy are recycled in<br />
other life forms like vegetation <strong>and</strong> lower forms of animals <strong>and</strong> insects on the earth. The souls<br />
cease to exist. The decayed bodies themselves serve as source of the growth of plants.<br />
The reincarnation was central to the theology of Buddha <strong>and</strong> the ultimate aim of the humans<br />
would be to merge back into the Godhead from which they came - the ultimate theosis.<br />
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http://www.aish.com/jl/l/a/48943926.html<br />
https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/361898/jewish/The-Purpose-of-Creation.htm<br />
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