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<blockquote data-quote="Yaarel" data-source="post: 8674859" data-attributes="member: 58172"><p>Regarding the concept of the resurrection:</p><p></p><p>There is a difference between a resuscitation and a resurrection. The resuscitation is moreorless posthumous healing of a wounded body. The resurrection is something different.</p><p></p><p>The resurrection is the emergence of an immortal being that cannot ever die again.</p><p></p><p>Translating into D&D mechanics, perhaps this immortality concept is more like a creature inhabiting the Celestial planes, but that simultaneously exists as a physical avatar in the Material plane. The immortal is a physical body but is also an angelic "mental body". A whole person is simultaneously angelic and physical. There is both an earthy physical nature of flesh and a heavenly spiritual nature. If the physical body gets destroyed the angelic aspect reforms it. The angelic aspect cannot be destroyed but can grow and evolve. In D&D the astral plane and the alignment planes are dreamlike mindscapes, where conceptual similarity defines experiential nearness.</p><p></p><p>The New Testament views Jesus as the first person to resurrect immortally. But ultimately the entire human species will resurrect this way. The catch is: only the good deeds survive eternally. The nongood actions cannot persist eternally. So in the judgment, only the good parts of ones identity survive. The rest of oneself is "erased" from the book of life when entering the eternal life of the world to come. Trusting God is a key to personally surviving judgment, but one can survive whole or with "utter loss". Most humans are a mix of good and bad actions, normally entangled completely. So, most people enter immortality somewhere between whole and loss.</p><p></p><p>For D&D, the Good alignment becomes highly significant when understanding what an immortal human resembles.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Yaarel, post: 8674859, member: 58172"] Regarding the concept of the resurrection: There is a difference between a resuscitation and a resurrection. The resuscitation is moreorless posthumous healing of a wounded body. The resurrection is something different. The resurrection is the emergence of an immortal being that cannot ever die again. Translating into D&D mechanics, perhaps this immortality concept is more like a creature inhabiting the Celestial planes, but that simultaneously exists as a physical avatar in the Material plane. The immortal is a physical body but is also an angelic "mental body". A whole person is simultaneously angelic and physical. There is both an earthy physical nature of flesh and a heavenly spiritual nature. If the physical body gets destroyed the angelic aspect reforms it. The angelic aspect cannot be destroyed but can grow and evolve. In D&D the astral plane and the alignment planes are dreamlike mindscapes, where conceptual similarity defines experiential nearness. The New Testament views Jesus as the first person to resurrect immortally. But ultimately the entire human species will resurrect this way. The catch is: only the good deeds survive eternally. The nongood actions cannot persist eternally. So in the judgment, only the good parts of ones identity survive. The rest of oneself is "erased" from the book of life when entering the eternal life of the world to come. Trusting God is a key to personally surviving judgment, but one can survive whole or with "utter loss". Most humans are a mix of good and bad actions, normally entangled completely. So, most people enter immortality somewhere between whole and loss. For D&D, the Good alignment becomes highly significant when understanding what an immortal human resembles. [/QUOTE]
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