MustardSeeed
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Thanks, Miss Mustard. Thankfully I wasn't prone to dwelling on the fact when it first came to mind today, so I'm okay. It does pass through my thoughts every now and then, but not too much. Debilitating diseases like Alzheimer's just affect me more strongly ever since I threw aside the traditional Christian doctrine that we have inherently immortal souls, in favor of conditional immortality. So I do not see the diseases that eventually take one's life as just affecting a "shell" of a body but unable to touch the eternal soul. But rather, I now see it breaking down the person himself until it eventually kills him, a reminder of our fragile mortality. How fortunate we are that, as much as the sleep of death sucks, in Christ we do have the hope of a later resurrection, and this time unto eternal life where it can never be afflicted by disease or death again. For now, though, we just have to face our mortality and the mental and physical ailments that all the more hasten the fulfillment of mortality's promise - the end of life. In Jesus, however, thankfully the end will not be permanent.
That's interesting SK I've never heard it explained in that way but I can see where you're getting at. At the end of the day, our bodies will fail us but one day we know that God will perfect us in due time
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