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Being made perfect

In the Christian belief about the afterlife one of the most widely accepted is that a person will be made perfect.  The explanation for what this means is merely that you will have a body free of flaws and defects.  As for how and why this happens it is given that we will be made perfect like Jesus is because of His sacrifice.  I'd like to go a little bit deeper than the Sunday School narrative that all of your pain, weakness, deformity, frailty and sinful human desires will be removed and that will make you perfect and happy forever. Let us unpack the concept of perfection.  It is an ideal that cannot be achieved in this temporal existence.  It represents an unattainable state for anything or anyone in the known universe.  Now let's imagine a thing actually being perfect.  Better yet, let us imagine a being which is perfect and it is a short walk because it has been done for us and he is called God.  God is without flaw.  His love i...

To infinity and beyond

Yeah, yeah, copyright infringement.  Sue me Real quick, down and dirty, infinity is an abstract concept.  It cannot be proven.  You cannot go to where something doesn't end and demonstrate that it never ends.  The concept of something going forward for an infinite count or space requires the additional dimension of infinite time so it becomes self defeating in that if one is a fanciful construct then so is the other.  Eternity is a fanciful, abstract concept.  We can pretend we can conceive of something being eternal, even demonstrate it mathematically, but our existence in a temporal universe precludes ever showing one another that anything is, in fact, eternal.  Lastly, we can only abstractly describe nothing.  The absence of anything would preclude anyone or any thing observing it so whomever is describing the nothing is part of it or a something that defies the nothing, which is nonsense. So let's place our universe inside of eternity....