My main point was not to get into eschatology (end times/after life) but to raise the point of wholeness. I am seriously agnostic about what happens after death. I deeply believe that it shouldn't impact how we live now. BUT, some of the thinking is important, because if we view matter as insignificant it is easy to dismiss our lived, embodied experiences and other living beings, for example animals, which most religions believe to have spirits but not souls. And yet, all are part of the God's good creation.
What I really like this wholeness in the ideas I wrote about. Honestly, I can't wrap my brain around what it would be like to have our bodies resurrected, or to live in a more glorified form, etc. But, for me, that is a bridge to cross when I come to it! For now, I take refuge in the underlying idea that we are whole human beings.
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Date: 2007-12-13 05:50 pm (UTC)What I really like this wholeness in the ideas I wrote about. Honestly, I can't wrap my brain around what it would be like to have our bodies resurrected, or to live in a more glorified form, etc. But, for me, that is a bridge to cross when I come to it! For now, I take refuge in the underlying idea that we are whole human beings.