Robyn Lebron Spiritists don’t believe in heaven or hell as depicted by other more traditional religions They also not have teachings about angels or devils, only superior or inferior spirits, who also are on their way toward perfection All the time, good spirits are getting better, and bad spirits are regenerating themselves It is generally believed that a single life is not sufficient for us to reach enlightenment as to God’s plans Many people have a struggle just to survive Many have never been exposed to any spiritual teaching, and others die very early Assuredly, no one is lost Everyone has the opportunity they deserve They believe that when Christ said, “ ,” He was making a reference to the physical rebirth and moral rebirth of human beings By this, we need to understand that each life is always a new opportunity to grow spiritually In this way, reincarnation is the perfect mechanism of divine justice It also explains why there exists so much inequality in the destinies of our fellow creatures on earth Through the mechanism of reincarnation, we can verify that God does not punish We ourselves are the cause of our suffering because, as yet, we have not accepted the law of cause and effect The guilty spirit is punished through moral sufferings in the spirit world and physical penalties during its corporeal lives Its afflictions are consequence of its faults, that is, of its violation of God’s law These sorrows constitute both atonement for the past and a test for the future In this way, the proud can have a life of humiliations; the tyrant, a servant life; and the wealthy oppressor, an incarnation in misery Being sovereignly just and good, God does not punish His creatures to endless penalties as a consequence of their limited mistakes He provides correction and repairs for them at any moment God forgives but also waits for regret, repair, and return to good in such a way that punishment is proportional to the spirit’s insistence in the evil Consequently, penalties would be eternal only for those who forever remained on the evil side As soon as a sign of regret appears in the guilty heart, God holds out His mercy Therefore, eternal punishments should be understood in relative sense only and not in an absolute one According to this belief, we are destined for perfection; there are other planets hosting more advanced life forms, and happier societies, ~ 214 ~