Death is Not Final; Immortal Self is Restored

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Now there’s no room for a final death with Christ-in-man, for Christ resurrects: you say good-bye to a friend who has gone through the gate we call “death,” but he cannot die. Nothing dies in this world, for God is the God of the living. But nothing dies, because the immortal you cannot die, and the immortal you is far more real than the garment of flesh and blood that it wears in the world of Caesar. This is the limit of contraction for a purpose, but when this is burned in the furnace (cremated) you – the occupant – are not burned in the furnace! You are restored, clothed as you are now, only the body is young – not a baby – a young body, about twenty. I encounter them all the time, and they are young, though when I said good-bye through the gate of “death,” they were seventy or eighty, (my father, eighty-five when he said good-bye, my mother, sixty-one). I met them in their twenties. I am much, much older. I am. I meet them, and they grow. They grow there, too; they don’t remain twenty. You grow there, and you are just as afraid as you are here; and you marry there, too, and strive there, too, and die there, too, to find yourself restored once more. And the journey continues until you resurrect.

Death is not an end but a transition. The immortal self, which is the true 'you,' cannot die and is restored in a young, vibrant body (around twenty years old) after physical death. This journey of restoration and growth continues in another dimension until the ultimate resurrection into the Kingdom of Heaven.

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