How we can better people is a vital question, if we know we will be judged in the future and maybe throughout our lifetimes. Jesus mainly taught how to be better people, and so he saved people. His way is the way of bettering ourselves by spirit. Would indulging ourselves improve us? No. Getting fat, becoming a drunkard, wasting our lives on drugs, gambling away our ability to provide for family, getting rich by criminality, these are not improvements when we know judgment is coming some day. Would philosophical thinking and cerebral cleverness improve us? No. Making ourselves like the most advanced AI computer, having answers to every puzzling question, always getting things right intellectually, masterminding the greatest achievements such as by military inventions, medical cures, theological dogma, it all sounds good but we might still commit heinous crimes at some point, and even greatly amplify the evil outcomes of such criminality. There is a third way: Improvement by spirit. As humans we do have this third aspect to our lives. Spirit transcends the other aspects of flesh and mentality. It is our potential to rise above these other aspects. By spirit we have potential to live more nobly, even if we are not nobles. It is our ability to use willpower to overcome both mind failings and physical weaknesses. We can rise above things, exerting will power and determination to do better, but only if we have direction in what is worthy. That direction must itself be above mere mentality and physical drivers. Given the right spirit, the pure leadings, the wisdom of what is true, we can put our spirit behind it, coming alive in that spirit, animated to really live right. This leads to the ideal outcome for us when we are judged. It saves us. Jesus came with teachings to direct and lead us in spirit. His way came by spirit and leads in the way of spirit: spirit and truth. Then he died for sins, rose by his divine Father’s power, and asked the Father to send the Holy Spirit to his followers to lead them even more in the way of spirit. By becoming his followers we can have this spirit-directed life. This needs to be how we begin: We effectively have to begin again, reverting from lives driven by physical and cerebral drivers to this life of spirit. It is like rebirth. This is how to be saved from the judgment incurred by living by the weaker mind and body alone. It results in a greater kind of love. Love becomes something pure and truthful, genuine and sincere, as it is not tied merely to physical satisfaction or indulgence and human thought processes. It becomes more divine, more worthy, more saintly. This is the ultimate goal. Then we have true hopes, and rightly persuaded faith. We gain true stability in this life driven by spirit. Not just saved, but at one with God and wity Jesus His Son.
