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Philosophical & Theological Reflections On Satirical Images: Beautiful card
My Mother had dementia for many years and her brain was in decline throughout that time. I have had several years to become set with my thoughts and feelings on the subject of her passing. Note, for you few critics out there that I am adopted. But Mom was and is my one and only 'real' Mother.
Thank you very much to Clive and Amy Burslem from church that sent this both aesthetically beautiful and biblical card to me. It reminds me of the biblical hope of resurrection, for my Mother, and myself and anyone in Jesus Christ. I continue to work on a write-up for Mom's memorial page.
As examples: In the New Testament, prior to the resurrection discussed in 1 Corinthians 15 and Revelation 20-22, those regenerated who trust in the applied\atoning and resurrection work of Christ, as disembodied spirits, have the hope and promise of paradise. In Luke 23, Jesus Christ, as God-incarnate promised the crucified criminal beside him, paradise that day. In 2 Corinthians 12 the Apostle Paul visited paradise, in body or spirit, he did not know.
I take paradise as biblically, an actual literal place, but in the spiritual realm, and not the physical realm. Paradise should not be taken plain literally as existing within our present realm (see link from my first website below). While I acknowledge that there are other more figurative theological interpretations of paradise within Christianity.
Perhaps a literal paradise has a simulated physicality? I doubt it is a timeless state where residents are simply given divine thoughts. Time is required, or a realm of finity at least, as a finite entity requires time or a realm of finity to reason from 'point a' to 'point b'. This is unlike God that has infinite knowledge outside and inside of time and finity and knows all as opposed to reasoning in time and/or finity as finite entities do. I reason that time/finity in the spiritual realm is definitely not solar time or time within a natural realm, but rather a supernatural realm. In other words, I do not know how the time/finity in paradise will be perceived by persons from physical death to resurrection.
My deduction it that it will not seem like 'years' or too long for people in paradise, between their arrival and departure as resurrected. But this is speculation.
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The truth is that as a child, I had no patience for colouring and just made a mess. I was no child prodigy, I kept it mostly all inside.;)
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MOUNCE, ROBERT H. (1990) The Book of Revelation, Grand Rapids, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company.
