✝️ [Pawan Upadhyay Bible] The True Inheritance — Life from the Living ✝️
(Based on The Gospel of Philip)
๐ The Gospel of Philip says:
“A Hebrew creates a Hebrew, and those of this kind are called a proselyte.
But a proselyte doesn’t create another proselyte.
They’re like slaves and they create others like themselves;
it’s good enough for them that they come into being.
The slave seeks only freedom; he doesn’t seek his master’s property.
But the son isn’t just a son; he claims his father’s inheritance for himself.
Those who inherit the dead are themselves dead, and they inherit the dead.
Those who inherit the living are themselves alive, and they inherit both the living and the dead.
The dead can’t inherit anything, because how can the dead inherit?
If the dead inherits the living they won’t die, but the dead will live even more!
A gentile doesn’t die, because they’ve never lived in order that they may die.
Whoever has believed in the Truth has lived, and is at risk of dying, because they’re alive since the day Christ came.
The world is created, the cities gentrified, and the dead carried out.
When we were Hebrews, we were fatherless — we had only our mother.
But when we became Christians, we gained both father and mother.”
๐พ Spiritual Commentary and Biblical Parallels
1. From the Hebrew to the Son — The Growth of the Soul
John 3:6–7 — “That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit… You must be born again.”
Galatians 4:6–7 — “You are no longer a slave, but a son; and if a son, then an heir through God.”
Meaning:
The “Hebrew” symbolizes the soul born by natural descent — fleshly knowledge of God.
The “proselyte” is one who converts outwardly but has not yet received the Spirit.
But the “son” is the one born of the Spirit — free, mature, and heir to divine life.
The slave desires escape; the son desires inheritance.
2. The Living and the Dead — True Inheritance
Matthew 8:22 — “Let the dead bury their own dead.”
John 11:25–26 — “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live.”
Ephesians 2:1,5 — “You were dead in trespasses… but God made us alive together with Christ.”
Meaning:
Those who live according to flesh inherit corruption.
Those who live according to the Spirit inherit eternal life.
Only the living can inherit the Living God — for death cannot inherit life.
To inherit Christ is to receive both the resurrection and the life within.
3. The Gentile and the Believer
Ephesians 2:12–13 — “You were at that time separated from Christ… but now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near.”
John 5:24 — “Whoever believes… has passed from death to life.”
Meaning:
The “gentile” who has not known the Truth has never lived spiritually — so cannot die.
But the believer, being made alive in Christ, can suffer and die to the world for the sake of eternal glory.
The danger of death belongs to those who are alive, because their life is divine.
4. From the Mother Alone to Both Father and Mother
Galatians 4:26 — “The Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother.”
Romans 8:15 — “You received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, ‘Abba, Father!’”
John 14:9–10 — “Whoever has seen me has seen the Father.”
Meaning:
Before Christ, humanity knew only the “mother” — the Law, wisdom, or earthly guidance.
But in Christ, the Father was revealed.
The believer now possesses both — divine wisdom (Mother) and divine authority (Father).
In the union of these two, the soul becomes complete.
5. The Renewal of the World
2 Corinthians 5:17 — “If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has passed away.”
Ephesians 4:22–24 — “Put off your old self… be renewed in the spirit of your minds.”
Meaning:
When Christ enters the soul, the old world within is reshaped.
The spiritual cities — the inner thoughts — are purified and made holy.
The “dead” (our past sins and passions) are carried out, and the divine order is restored.
๐ค️ Holy Reflection
When we were bound by flesh, we had only our mother — wisdom limited by the world.
But when we came to Christ, the Father’s light entered us.
The Spirit of the Father and the wisdom of the Mother dwell together in the heart reborn.
Thus the Son becomes a true heir — inheriting the living and no longer the dead.
For in Christ, the world is remade, and all creation sings again in the summer of eternal life.
