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our destiny. If the balance of our merit and the earnings in the form of our pious deeds are very limited, how can we expect to get more comforts, love or rewards?
(5) The scripture teaches us that we should learn tolerance (which is a great virtue) as well as forberance. It also teaches us that we should keep our love intact for mankind.
Why does the Christian faith not contemplate a world hereafter?
It is true that the western scriptures and works on psychology have given sufficient thought for the happiness of mankind. However, this is limited to the present life only. In other words, there is no consideration for the infinite future life of an eternal soul. We are given to understand that Lord Jesus Christ had visited India and come into close contact with the religions and philosophy of India. Finding that there was much weighty material in Indian teachings, Lord Jesus Christ had started preaching the virtues of humanitarianism, human bortherhood and love, tolerance etc. His teachings might have contained some impressions about the soul, the world hereafter, etc., but about 400 years after Christ, a conference of the religious leaders and thinkers of the Western countries was held and there, perhaps, they thought that in the matter of thinking about the soul, the next life etc. they may not be able to compete with the cultures of India, or for some other reasons, it was decided in that conference that they should not entertain thoughts about an eternal soul tranmigrating from one kind
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