One of the limitations in human thought is that we inevitably think in terms of time. When we are confronted by the mystery of death we naturally suppose that time is at work. There is a before death and an after death. Jesus instructs us that God is not limited in that way. “God is not God of the dead, but of the living, for to him all are alive.” Both sides of biological death are simply different means of being “alive to God.” Just as a child in the womb cannot know the world of light which awaits him or her after birth, neither do we have an awareness of what new life we will have with God when we enter into glory.
