Resurrection, yes or no?
We have to thank the Sadducees for asking Jesus a question about the resurrection. His answer enlightens us on what life will be like as we cross into the other dimension.
Before we are born we spend nine months in a vital dimension of which we have no memory: the womb of a woman. If it were for us and for our direct experience we could swear we had never been there. No one remembers that experience consciously. But then we see children being born and we realize where they lived for nine months. At that point we realize that we too lived in our mother's womb. We have no doubt that we lived in the womb of a woman, but it is an experience we cannot testify to personally as we do not remember anything about it. We are born after a darkness of nine months, or more precisely we continue to live, but in a different way: we leave the womb, the umbilical cord is cut and life continues/begins. All that we live and experience slowly becomes fixed in our memory and perceptual capacities and slowly but surely we begin to realize that we exist, we begin to form memories, to develop our personality and tastes, in short, we experience the fact that we are here. But no one remembers the nine months in the womb nor the day we became truly aware of our existence.
Something very similar happened with our heavenly dimension. We were all created by God who knows when and in what dimension, a dimension that we have lost and forgotten because of original sin. Now we live on this earth but are almost completely oblivious to the heavenly dimension where we started out and where we will return. Each of us can rightly swear that we have never seen God, that we did not come from Him, that we never saw the splendor of His His divine light, but in reality this is not true. We have come from God and we know who He is, but after our birth that heavenly dimension was no longer part of our consciousness or our memories.
We have, nevertheless, Jesus' words and the Bible which testify that we came from God and that we are going back to God. Jesus reminds us of what we can no longer remember. He does so to help us to live this life with greater awareness and honor, because our life is not all on this earth. It began in heaven, it continues for a few years on earth, and then through the bridge of death it goes back to God's embrace. Jesus says that our existence is immortal, that we were born one day, but we cannot die. The mandatory death on earth is just a means of transportation to Heaven. Death does not exist; only dying exists. And it is how we die - which terribly frightens us - depends greatly on us, on the private and social choices we make, it depends greatly on how we lived, how we loved life, how we treat nature, how we respect other human beings.
Death, as we are accustomed to thinking of it as the absence of life, does not exist. Life remains, we remain and continue to live and to exist in other dimensions. No one knows in what kind of light and beauty, no one knows how and where, but we will continue to exist and to hear, see, and feel: we will continue to live forever. And according to the Gospel and to the Bible, we can only die once, as only once will God will make us rise like angels, as bright stars, shining like the sun.
It was not God who invented death, and in God's plan death will not be our master, only life and love. It will not be by dying and reincarnating on this earth thousands of times that we will be taught to love, dying over and over again will not take us to God. Before Gid we will die only once. Jesus died and rose again, but only once. In the heavenly dimension we will pass from light to light, and in the end we will meet the Lord, but we will never die again, so we will never come back to earth. Being born again here in a different guise would mean dying again, but man will experience dying, will meet death, only once.
And how will the heavenly world be? There is no point in making hypotheses or speculating. Jesus' words on this issue are few, but those that He left us are clear and simple.
Jesus reveals that in the heavenly dimension, in eternal life, there will be no relations or bonds as we live them on earth, those who will dwell in the mansions of light, will be shining like the sun and beautiful like angels. There will be no husband and wives, there will be no children, or family relationships as we know them.
There is, however, an important detail that we must not forget: Jesus says that only those who are deemed worthy to attain to the coming age and to the resurrection of the dead will have life, which means that Someone will judge whether we are worthy or not of that extraordinary and endless life. Jesus with his death descended into hell and threw away the key of the door of eternal death so that no man can enter it even by accident, but for the sake of freedom Jesus cannot prevent someone from choosing freely and stubbornly to live all his earthly experience without light and love, and, consequently in the other dimension to live forever in a place of immortal death and darkness.