I am a hospice chaplain serving as the Spiritual Care Coordinator of a hospice & home health agency. I consider it a privilege to be able to spend some of the most intimate times of a person's life with them.

Sunday, November 05, 2006

Eternal, Immortal, but Divine?

We say that “the Divine became man, so that man may become Divine”. For me this statement is not totally accurate because I believe to be Divine, is more than life eternal or immortality. We are given life eternal whether we believe in the Divine or not. If we chose not to believe in the Divine, then our eternity becomes the “hell” that we live in by the mere existence of life eternal, outside the presence of God. In the same manner I believe “heaven” to be eternal life in the presence of God. For if God is light and love than our own wills lead us to darkness and self obsession.

Because Christ, being God, took on human flesh to live amongst us, He died so that we might experience eternal life and goodness. So that mankind can be restored to the original image of God that we were made in.

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