“The God of Abraham is not God of the dead, but of the living, for to him all are alive.” We say in our creeds that we believe in “the resurrection of the body and life everlasting.” The mistake we make in thinking about everlasting life is to imagine it as a continuation of this life only without pollution, pocket books or pesky neighbors. Jesus insists that life on the other side of death is truly NEW “which eye hat not seen nor ear heard” the likes of which. The embodiedness mentioned in the creed has to do with out personal identity, not our physical existence. St. Augustine has a helpful image — eternal life is not joy entering us, but our entering into joy.
