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It is one thing I like to know in detail asking when I meet him. Or later. It is interesting what happened in detail genetics
You sound like a nuts and bolts type of person. I could be far off here, but maybe it was simply a move from the spiritual to the material.
 
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Seen from a genetic point here I think what happened was some form of genetic malfunctioning. But it does not cut it, as it is much worse. Almost like..another reality. Tree of life hidden and all.
The Tree of life is Jesus Christ.
 
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What you say here are in line with what the exorcists of the catholic faith says. I believe it. They say that 90% of the dead people we see are demonic but that it happens that some want to say good bye or asking for prayers as they have difficulty moving on. And how with prayer they`re gone. You mentioned age. I`m 54. I think there is something to it what you say about it.
Catholic exorcists do not believe some souls do not move on to their appointed destinations. That goes completely against Catholic teaching. There have been stories of souls requesting prayer in Purgatory but those are private revelations and we are not required to believe them. If a Catholic priest says souls get stuck or wander around, run. Any exorcist priest worth his salt will tell you that anything wreaking havoc and dressed up as grandma is a demon in disguise.
 
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I don't believe that it was death itself that caused Jesus to say those words about the cup. Rather, all that was involved in His particular death - Him bearing the sins of His people, and thus being separated from His heavenly Father. He knew that death itself had no power over Him:

“15 “As the Father knows Me, even so I know the Father; and I lay down My life for the sheep. 16 “And other sheep I have which are not of this fold; them also I must bring, and they will hear My voice; and there will be one flock [and] one shepherd. 17 “Therefore My Father loves Me, because I lay down My life that I may take it again. 18 “No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down of Myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This command I have received from My Father.”” (Joh 10:15-18 NKJV)
The physical pain, which He foreknew and foresaw would be part of His immediate future, would also contribute heavily to His objection to the cup. And yet His willingness in the face of such awful challenges is what makes His act so great an act of love. And, yes, I doubt He’d have any fear of death, itself.
 
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