Discrepancies In Christianity

Christianity, as a broad religion, has one of the largest followings of any religion that has ever existed. With this large following, obviously comes many discrepancies and disputes. Due to these discrepancies and disputes, there have been many divides in the beliefs and interpretations of the followers of Christianity; there are tens of thousands of denominations in total. These many denominations have led to wide spread esoteric beliefs in addition to the normative beliefs that most know, although there are some qualities that they do share. Esoteric Christianity is basically a belief or denomination of Christianity that is not shared by the majority of people who follow the broad faith of Christianity and is known by only a small amount

A lot of the discrepancies in the Christian faith come from the views of life after death, due to this topic being very vague in description in the Bible. The basic normative view of life after death in Christianity is that everyone will be resurrected at some point. Most will point to the letters written by the apostle Paul and his description of what seems like nonphysical resurrection (Moreman, 59). Once the person has died, most believe that the person’s soul will either go to heaven or hell based on the way that they lived their life and if they believed in God and Jesus (Moreman, 55). On the other hand, the esoteric belief held by Daskalos is that people reincarnate instead of resurrecting. His view of reincarnation was that a person would arrive in another, spiritual, plane of existence where they would spend an undetermined amount of time learning and preparing for the next time that they would reincarnate into a different body (Markides, 92). He also believes that once someone dies, they will still be able to traverse and interact, to some

In normative Christianity, it is believed that God is the decider on when and to whom we are born. This is true for both the Protestant and Catholic beliefs. However, Daskalos believes that everyone has a more direct role in the process. The idea goes along with his idea that a person’s spiritual form is fully cognizant and aware. He believes that we decide from whom we are born (Markides, 105). After someone has spent time in the spiritual realm and gained enough knowledge to be prepared to return to the material world, they are then “shut up with others in a pen” by the Masters in charge of incarnations (Markides, 105). Once someone is in this pen, or loading gate, it is then their responsibility to decide where to be reincarnated (Markides, 106). However, the Masters can push someone in the right direction if they feel it would be for the greater benefit (Markides, 106). This process is then completed numerous times, while each time the individual gains greater knowledge for their permanent