Hello again Miriam
I wrote earlier to you, privately, now I again see that few are answering you, on the question: What is the truth? In the Bible?
You also seemed to look for "any religious idea". I'll provide you with that, from outside, though I am really inside too. You know I am a Bahai , now others will know. For Bahai Faith see www.Bahai.us or www.Bahai.us. This link below gives a fine presentation of the Bahai Faith too, with much of its dramatic history (film 2 and 4)
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=bahaullah+and+the+bahai+faith&search=Search
The first I want to say is that the truth is carried into our hearts on the wings of love. A Love that is felt in the mystery of our hearts. Without that love we are in the desert of waywardness and sorrow.
We feel that love flowing from God when we turn to Him in prayer with a longing heart. We can feel it when God adresses us like
in Hidden Words by Bahaullah, Founder of the Bahai Faith. We can read the blessed Words:
O SON OF BEING!
Love Me that I may love thee. If thou lovest Me not, My love
can in no wise reach thee. Know this O servant.
O SON OF BEING!
Thy paradise is My love; thy heavenly home reunion with Me.
Enter therein and tarry not. This is that which hath been destined for thee in Our Kingdom above and Our exalted dominion.
When love is in our hearts we are filled with a Force that makes it possible to willingly perform good deeds...it leads us to the true way of living. We don't think that we sacrifice anything, the Force helps us, even if we have lived a terrible life before.. We then follow the true path.
"The mystery of sacrifice is that it is no sacrifice." Abdu'l-Bahá, son of Bahaullah.
The Force of love rules everything, this is in short the truth about the world of being. In man it manifests itself through the quickening enlightenment of the Holy Spirit, making us mature, just as the rays of the sun quickens the little seeds hidden in the soil and make them grow.
The soil of the soul is ploghed and prepared by the Holy Bearers of the Holy Spirit , you being a Christian look at Jesus Christ as the Bearer of the Holy Spirit.The fruit or harvest is men and women with divine virtues. With the divine virtues well matured and nortured in us we can manage to live in Gods eternity of heavenly love, just as we are prepared in our mothers wombs growing legs and arms and head to manage hereabouts on earth. See the parallell?
In the mineral, love is manifested as the power of attraction, and by it the stones hold together, in the vegetables that same law of attraction is manifest, but also the power of reproduction. It holds the stars and the moons and other planets in their places, circling in planes. Everything is maintained by the power of attraction. And this is the most important Force, created by the Creator, whom We know as that Compassionate God, who wants us to learn to love.
Therefore He sends us Manifestations Who teaches us to love each other because He releases that Force of love to receptive hearts. When hearts grow cold and religion is being drawn to the ground, being mocked at, He sends a new Messenger, and it will never end. If you know love you know truth.
Love can also be said to be a state of mind. The true and aimed at state of mind. Because love makes us happy and then our minds wake up to be active and creative. We are able to develope and appreciate unity and harmony.
I have come to feel love, that mysterious love when I turned to Bahaullah. It was actually verse nr 1 above that gave spiritual life to my heart. I didn't know that my heart could feel such a feeling,I got a sense of strength and an intense gladness. I didn't know i had a hidden corner inside me.Also I was illumined by the awareness or realisation of the divinity of Christ. I had been an atheist all my life so I can claim that I have been raised from the dead.Been"resurrected."
Love can be like honey, it can be a kind of elevating feeling, as if you float inside of yourself, still both feet on the ground. It can be a feeling of eternity being inside of me. It can also make me determined to pursue things, not letting myself feel my fatigue. It gives me patience and I can overlook how people are negligent in their behaviour. I do not burden myself unnecessarily with my shortcomings, I try to see a meaning in all that is both good and bad. Yes, this is it, the true feelings of mystic love gives you meaning, eternally as well as here on earth.
Bahaullah declares: "No one knows the joy of the mystic". Without doubt this secret of the human inner heart, which is Gods place of revelation must be sought out by each one of us. This JOY. My words above are not enough, even though I have felt the Awakening through a great Illumination. We, as humans have the responsibility to search for truth independently, and when we feel the love of God we do not ask for more. The truth takes its abode inside of you in a corner that is hidden to all but God. The truth is felt by the spirit that has been lit by the Holy Spirit.
Since God has created us we cannot light that inner light or fire ourselves. Now as well as about 2000 years ago this was done through the Holy Spirit which Jesus was the Bearer of and Whom God sent to mankind..
Let us hear Bahaullah, the Manifestation of God for todays global era.
O SON OF BEING!
My first counsel is this: Possess a pure, kindly and radiant heart, that thine may be a sovereignty ancient, imperishable and everlasting.
O SON OF SPIRIT!
The best beloved of all things in My sight is Justice; turn not away therefrom if thou desirest Me, and neglect it not
that I may confide in thee. By its aid thou shalt see with thine own eyes and not through the eyes of others, and shalt know of thine own knowledge and not through the knowledge of thy neighbour. Ponder this in thy heart; how it behooveth thee to be. Verily, justice is My gift to thee and the sign of My loving-kindness.
O SON OF BEING!
With the hands of power I made thee and with the fingers of strength I created thee; and within thee have I placed the essence of My light. Be thou content with it and seek naught else, for My work is perfect and My command is binding.
Question it not, nor have a doubt thereof.
O SON OF BEING!
Thy heart is My home; sanctify it for My descent. Thy spirit is My place of revelation; cleanse it for My manifestation.
Ask me anything, I will try to answer whatever you wish and find out an answer.
The Bahai Faith is a vast source of wisdom and clarifications and very compassionate. It holds all other Faiths as true in their essence.
Good Luck
Laila Falck
PS For us Bahais, "hell" is to be separated from God, not to know God. And, like sunshine shuts out darkness, so the love from and to God shuts out sorrows and fears from our hearts. And worse things.