Christianity Treated Life on Earth Like Burden, Not Gift, While Life in Heaven As Gift, Not Reward

By Rodolfo Martin Vitangcol

The “life of man on earth” is the GIFT, while the “life eternal of man in heaven” is the REWARD.

Life on earth is considered a GIFT because we did not have to earn it to have it; God gave it to us so freely and unconditionally without us ever having the opportunity to even ask for it.

On the other hand, life eternal in heaven is a REWARD because it is something we have to deserve in order to have. Only those who are doing the will of God may receive it. And by the grace of God, may we all receive it.

Nonetheless, for all the infinite beauty of the reward, may we all live for the GIFT, not the REWARD, lest we negate this most beautiful life on earth—“the greatest gift we have ever received from God.”

Amen.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Rodolfo Martin Vitangcol
• Release date: Jan 14, 2019
• ISBN: 9780463809143

Rodolfo Martin Vitangcol

RODOLFO MARTIN VITANGCOL spent his high school in the seminary, and worked his way through college, graduating with a BSC degree in Commerce majoring in Accounting at the Philippine College of Commerce.He worked with a foreign bank [Bank of America] for six years before pursuing a career in sales. In sales, he joined U-Bix Corporation and John Clements Consultants, and, for some time, also went into a build-and-sell business. After about six years in sales, he put up a training firm [FILIPINO SALESMASTERS CONSULTANTS which has now been changed into ATTITUDINALIST TRAINING CENTER] specializing in salesmanship, attitude, leadership, and customer service programs.In a span of 30 years now as a professional trainor, Mr. Vitangcol has already trained more than 200 companies to more or less 50,000 employees throughout the Philippines.

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Christianity treated life on earth like burden, not gift, while life in heaven as gift, not reward

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PREFACE

Two thousand years have passed since Jesus came to save our world, and yet our world has gone even much more miserable than when Jesus left it.

All you see around are poverty and oppression getting ever wider and deeper, as greed and corruption get ever bolder and meaner.

In all of these, where is Jesus, the said Messiah of the world?  What has he been doing?

He is there locked up in church, content with spewing up spiritual words that nobody listens to, aiming to save the souls of men, not the world from its ever-deepening hunger and misfortune.  And who locked him up there?  The Christianity of Paul.

If the Jews had crucified the Living Jesus, Paul’s Christianity had murdered the Risen Christ!

Behold in these twelve series of books THE TWELVE DESTRUCTIONS Paul’s Christianity had brought upon the person and the true Mission of Jesus.

JESUS MUST RISE!  For as long as Jesus remains buried beneath the lies and hypocrisies of Paul’s Christianity, the world is doomed to its inevitable destruction.

And must Jesus rise now, while the wood is still green.

Amen. 

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