What do you think we’ll experience when we die? What is it that you hope we experience when we die? Most “christians” these days expect to meet with the be-all, end-all, Great and Powerful Oz-like figure that is the singular totality of God.
References such as, “we’ll finally see His face“, “falling into his arms“, etc, are evidence of such expectation. For the record, I too have believed such a thing for the majority of my life. Now, however, I wonder if such will be the case.
Let me explain.
I’m totally in love with my wife. She is my best friend (among other things
) and the person who I’d rather be with than anyone else. I believe that we are becoming one person–that the line between where Jeffrey ends and Shaunna begins is continually being blurred.
That of course, is something that occurs spiritually. Obviously, we are and will always be two different people, physically. Now don’t get me wrong, the physical container that houses Shaunna is WONDERFULLY BEAUTIFUL, but that which I most deeply love in her transcends this physical reality.
If that is true of the love I feel for my wife, then why have I believed the inverse of God?
You see, with the longing for the “Great and Powerful Oz” experience when I die, I subconsciously fall prey to the belief that the fullness of God resides in a physical representation of his infinitude–not the vastness of his entirety–which is what already indwells you, me, and every other person on the planet.
I currently believe that the life/breath/spirit/whatever of God indwells us all–some are aware of it, some are not. In other words, like me and my wife, we are one.
If the be-all, end-all of God that I experience when I die were a physical singularity, I now suspect that a crippling realization would ensue: that the spiritual oneness I had experienced in life was bull shit and make believe.
It would be like realizing that all there is to Shaunna is her physical person and all that I love beyond that is mere fabrication.
Obviously, we long for a person-to-person like experience with all that is God upon death because we have only physical interaction with other humans to liken it to. But why else do we desire that? Is it logical? Is it real?
What do you desire to experience when you die?
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