Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Is the end the end?



Last Christmas I went to Uruguay. One day we visited the art museum in Montevideo.
At the entry I saw a big poster that had writing this phrase:
"Remember that you will die".
A friend of m said "wait, I will put this on my agenda".
Even though this argument some time disturb us, it clear that is something that we have to deal with, an existential point.
In some moment we face death in people that are close to us. Sometime it's happen suddenly other times we have time to be prepare, to reflect on it.

I think that each of us live our life according to how we believe on what's happen when we die and after that.
That's why this is an important issue.

On this multicultural world we meet people that have different understanding about it. The most known answer that people believe in are: when you die the soul go back to God or to hell and you can do something to change your fate; there is nothing after you die not hope, and people that believe on incarnation.
There are other angles on all these points of view.

The first experience with death I had close to my life was when I was three and half years old. I don't have a picture on my mind but I have see how much this experience had had a so big impact on my life. It was the death of my father.

For us that are on live, when a person die we miss that person completely, totally.
If we could have only the live body from that person would not be complete; in fact we call this type of situation a person on a "vegetative state". If we have the soul of the person, but we can not hug him or her, look at the person, see his or here expressions, something is missing.

I have think about it for a long time.
I grow up as Christian and I'm still one; I heard different answer about this argument but the idea of separation between body and soul, that some people arrive first to heaven and that the soul go to God after you die never convince me.

Few questions come to my mind.
Why, if God is love as a basic characteristic will leave the human race suffering here and eventually allow the dead people go happy up to heaven and see us from above whit out the possibility to do nothing for us?
If there is a better life after we die why not "kill your self" and go to a better place faster?
If God give us life putting together body and soul to make the existence (this is what we see when a child is born), why he will separate it at the end of life for an other life?
If this is idea is right,where is God justice?

I looked and study the Bible, what for Christians should be the life guide.

There is a lot to talk about but if we just take the best reference experience, I mean Jesus him self there is something interesting from my point of view. When he meet Maria after the resurrection Jesus said, "Do not hold on to me, for I have not yet returned to the Father. Go instead to my brothers and tell them, 'I am returning to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.' " Jhon 20:7
The text is talking about Jesus him self immediately after he has resurrected and as we notice he had not returned to the Father during the time he was dead (the Father is clearly in heaven); therefor, how could the normal mortal people go immediately to heaven after death if Jesus didn't go?

What Jesus said when he had situations whit people that have died like Lazarus he said; "Our friend has fallen asleep; but I am going there to wake him up." We know that when we sleep there is not comprehension about what's around us; so we presume that this is what's going on wile a person is dead, nothing, no existence, no communication.

So, as I understand in a Bible Christian perspective, after you die nothing happen until Jesus will come back and resurrect the people."For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive. But each in his own turn: Christ, the first fruits; then, when he comes, those who belong to him. (1 chorinthian 15:22,23)

If Jesus resurrected, if he resurrected Lazarus, if he created the word from nothing, he will for sure have the power to recreated the human from the dust and give him the breath of life again.

I found on this answer comfort and hope for us people that are alive. I have a hope that one day I will met the beloved that have died again, soul and body together, completely.

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