Let us make this Earth a Paradise

Let us make this Earth a Paradise - Jesus Christ
This is what Jesus preached. We need not turn away from our this world to attain the heaven after death.
Jesus said, "The kingdom of heaven is within you."

St Thomas has explained about the reality of this life. He posed a question :
"Since God is an incorporeal being and since our goal must be 'likeness to God', surely it must be said that the soul separated from the body is more like God than the soul united with the body."
In other words, does the real salvation lies in life after death, when the soul has departed from our body ? Is this life on earth a ‘lesser’ life as compared with the life after death ?
He then explains : "The soul united with the body is more like God than the soul separated from the body because it (the soul in the body) possesses its nature in more complete fashion. Corporeality, therefore, is good."


The prayer that Jesus taught us says, "Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven."
It is here on earth that we would verily fulfill the will of God.

As per a leading Biblical critic, John Dominic Crossan, "[The Kingdom of Heaven] is about the transformation of this world into holiness, not the evacuation of this world into heaven." - John Dominic Crossan, "God and Empire"

Bible condemns laziness and praises hard work. Proverbs 10:4 says, "Lazy hands make a man poor, but diligent hands bring wealth." Proverbs 14:23 says, "All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only to poverty."

Jesus said, “First you must look within and find yourself, when you come to know yourself you will know God - Gospel of Thomas
One has first to realize himself from within.

There is also the concept of being ‘born again’. This is very commonly misunderstood as the ‘resurrection’ on ‘biological level’.

Joh 3:3 Jesus answered and said to him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

Being born again means complete burning out of our egoistic life full of jealousy, hatred, resentment and coming to terms with oneself without any ill feelings, after having healed oneself completely.

The emphasis on the hard work on practical level can be seen in the following passage :
"He [God] shall judge between the nations, and rebuke many people; they shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more." (Isaiah 2:4).
At another place, Jesus said that the Kingdom of Heaven is like a grain of mustard seed that was planted and grew(Matt. 13:31).
Parable of mustard seed is a parable that accord to the gospel of LK (LK13--19)..and he said, whereundo shall we liken the kingdom of god? or with what comparison shall we compare it? ----it is like a grain of mustard seed which when it is shown in the "Fonufan" is less it is shown in the Fonufan, is less than all the seeds that be in the earth.

‘The heavens belong to YHWH,’ declares the Psalmist, ‘and the earth he has given to the human race.’

Jesus' Sermon on the Mount
Happy are those who know they are spiritually poor; the kingdom of heaven belongs to them!
This sermon is very difficult to understand form the common human perspective. It has often been misinterpreted, even by the learned men. What Jesus means by the spiritually poor is not the men of high spiritual development. He is hinting at the men who are more of the ‘ritualistic’ and ‘pedantic’ type. The spiritually poor are the simple men without any heavy baggage of philosophies and dogmas.
Jesus also says :
Happy are the pure in heart; they will see god!
Matthew 16:13-19 GNB) ".... And so I tell you, Peter: you are a rock, and on this rock foundation I will build my church, and not even death will ever be able to overcome it. I will give you the keys of the Kingdom of heaven; what you prohibit on earth will be prohibited in heaven, and what you permit on earth will be permitted in heaven."
This is a very important message of Jesus with a very profound meaning. The serious business of Jesus was to ‘establish’ the ‘Law’ on ‘hard rock’ which will not wither away with time ..’even death will ever be able to overcome it’...
He says ‘I will give you the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven’. What are those keys ? A secret Mantra ? Or some secret ritual or some WORD of POWER ? None of these. There is no ‘SECRET’ meaning to what Jesus is saying to Peter. The Keys of the Kingdom of Heaven are nothing but the essence of all that Jesus has been saying so far. It is basically a simple rule – nothing complicated or esoteric as one would expect.
...’what you prohibit on earth will be prohibited in heaven, and what you permit on earth will be permitted in heaven.’
The Heaven is only a ‘reflection’ of Earth. The subtle but very important point made here is that ‘Earth is having more importance than Heaven’ in the Cosmic Scheme of Things.

Jesus told a would-be follower that the proclamation of the Kingdom comes first, before the burial of his father. He immediately followed this up with the imperative that no one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the Kingdom (9:57-62).
Again we see here the affirmation that the practical real life on earth is more important than running after the heaven after death.

Luke 14:26 NIV: “If anyone come to me and does not hate his father and mother, his wife and children, his brothers and sisters – yes, even his own life – he cannot be my disciple. And anyone who does not carry his cross and follow me cannot be my disciple.”
At the outward appearance, this sounds very strange. How can Jesus expect to hate his ‘father and mother, his wife and children, his brothers and sisters – even his own life’ ? This a very outlandish statement difficult to digest. What he means is that one has to ‘get rid’ of this ‘outward egoistic life’. One has to get’ stripped’ of one’s old baggage before being accepted by Jesus – before starting his new divine life.
It is interesting to note that Jesus is referred to as the "Son of Man" 88 times in the New Testament.