tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6622085708356398766.post3696336086023074157..comments2023-10-16T03:14:33.698-07:00Comments on Legendary Leadership: Death and Your Worldview MonteThirdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11296061287789838342noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6622085708356398766.post-61170058384317680742014-02-12T07:44:33.059-08:002014-02-12T07:44:33.059-08:00I have, in the last decade or so begun to think th...I have, in the last decade or so begun to think that there are two sides to death. One is very positive and connected to the idea of transformation, and one is connected to the death of corruption because of sin. <br /><br />For transformation I often use the common idiom "death of the child" to mean entering the complexities and responsibilities (and we hope the wisdom) of being adults. The adult is the child transformed, matured but the child is no more. Another illustration is the caterpillar becoming a butterfly. The caterpillar ceases to "exist", it is transformed into something new, a butterfly. This, I believe is what God first meant when he said, "In the day that you eat of it, dying you shall die." In the eating, unfallen Adam would be transformed (die) losing the earthy, earthly body and attaining the heavenly, spiritual body that he and all men would require to dwell fully with God in the ages to come.<br /><br />Enter sin and now death takes on its bitter and adversarial nature - sin's corruption of soul and body require the casting off "the body of sin" in physical death to await its future transformation through the resurrection. The person goes through this unnatural tearing of soul from body until, in the future, a glorious new body is truimphantly bestowed.<br /><br />Just thinking....<br /><br />Blessings,<br /><br />Wayne<br />Fr. Waynehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09896301094628415617noreply@blogger.com