Notice that God is plural. (in OUR image, after OUR likeness) So who are we speaking of ? Is there now more than one God? No! God is a triune God. The plural sense of the words refers to the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, the divine 3 in 1.
One must understand that the 3 in 1 pattern is written in the very fabric of the universe itself. Examples include water, which is hydrogen, hydrogen,and oxygen. The atomic structure consists of a nucleus ,proton, and electron. What is fire but heat, air, and fuel? Remove any one of these three and the fire goes out.One can go on and on examining item by item in the quest to discover the God code. As with the universe, so with man!
We are also made in a 3 in 1 pattern. The Bible uses the term body, soul, and spirit but this is often confusing to many in Christendom as there is a tendency to confuse spirit and soul when they re not the same. Therefore I will rename them as physical, astral, an spiritual.
Physical- the flesh and blood part of the body.
Astral- the link between the physical and our spirit. Being a link it is an intermediate state between the two having both spiritual and physical qualities.Upon death the astral body separates from the physical as when the silver cord snaps. The book of Ecclesiastes speaks of a silver cord uniting both physical and astral. The astral body looks just like the physical body except for the fact it is semi-spiritual and can pass through solid objects and levitate and what not.If you tried to touch it your hands would go right through it. It looks solid but it not. Mystics speak of an out of body experience in which the astral body temporarily leaves the physical body and travels into more esoteric dimensions. However, a curious things happens the longer the astral is disconnected from the physical. The astral body begins to fade out and becomes more transparent or misty until eventually it evaporates completely and frees the spirit. (what the Bible calls the soul. Thus we see the astral is the container of the soul.) That explains why some ghosts appear as solid flesh and blood people and others appear as transparent or misty shapes.The ghost is the astral body in various stages of evaporation.It it not the soul (spirit) you are seeing,it is the astral.
The Bible does not refer to out of body experiences in that terminology but when it speaks of being in the spirit that is exactly what it means, the astral body is temporarily separated from the physical and is elsewhere. John was in the spirit on the Lord's day on the island of Patmos receiving visions of what became the book of Revelations.
I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell, : God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven. II Corinthians , Chapter 12, verse 2.
Or ever the silver cord be loosed...Ecclesiastes Chapter 12, verse 6
The soul is of course the immoral part as neither the astral or the physical is immortal. However a soul without a astral and physical body is incomplete and that is why in the final resurrection God connects the soul back into the astral and back into the physical and mortality then puts on immortality, corruption put on incorruption, as the complete body is now glorified and made immortal. Heaven is not a abode of wispy spirits but of perfected and immortal humanity existing in their now perfect and glorified 3 in 1 bodies only this time the astral body(the spirit) is more powerful than the physical body (the flesh) and thus we become like angels with all the supernatural powers angels have in our new heavenly bodies.
The soul is shapeless and invisible, often depicted as orbs of light or disembodied intelligence with energy like proprieties This is the temporary state it will assume when the astral body evaporates and it is freed, but will not be reunited until its reformation with its original flesh and blood body at the resurrection.
Some speculate that the astral body usually goes immediately into the afterlife, Heaven or Hell, but does not reunite with the physical until judgement day. Of course, those who are alive and remain(note the word remain) at the time of Christ's Second Coming will be instantly transformed in the blink of an eye without having gone through a death phrase.The only generation of Christians not to have to undergo death This is what mainstream Christianity mistakenly calls the rapture but it is a transformation. Besides how can anybody (meaning Christians) remain at the Second Coming if, as mainstream Christianity teaches, they have all been raptured off to Heaven 3 and one -half years before the Second Coming?
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