Originally posted by TIGGER6035
I believe that after life, you're dead. You chance to be with loved one again & you get to start all over again. I know when I die, I'm going to be with the babies I lost. I know we are still going to be family up in heaven too.
You know Tigger, I want to believe that the instant when we take our last breath we take our first at our birth in a continous loop.. That way we have life to live over and over again. But in reality I realize we return back to the Creator (The Heavenly Father). And yes we will become reunited with our loved ones who preceeded us in our physical death, but not as a family in a Fleshly Sense, but a much broader family in the Spiritual Sense.
We belong to that Spiritual Family while we take breath in our bodily form because those of us who are Orthodox, in the purest definition of the Greek (correct belief), are indeed Spiritual Brethren. It is just that our Physical Body makes us less aware of that Spiritual Existance.
What I am trying to say is that if we are of the Correct Belief which is Orthodox in Greek, in both Mind and Heart and living in the Flesh then we belong to what is considered as the Church Militant. When we are ressurected in the Spirit, pass through the Toll Houses and reach our Particular Judgement and are judged to be worthy by the Heavenly Father, we become part of that larger Spiritual Body called the Church Triumphant. It is through Faith, Prayer and especially when we take the Eucharist (Holy Communion) are both Church Militant and Church Triumphant are in Communion with one and other so we can worship God the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit as one body.
Though when we leave our Physical Body and enter into Heaven we will not know one another as Mother, Daughter, Husband or Wife, we will recognize one another in a closer bond then the Mother and Daughter or Husband and Wife bond we had here on Earth because such Bonds are merely Physical and Finite.. We must seek the Spiritual Bonds which are Infinite.
You see, Christ teachs through St Paul the Apostle that we are made up as two beings of Life. The Physical Life and the Spiritual Life. One is bound on Earth and other is bound in Heaven.
1 Corinitains 15:44 It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.
It is in this realization that we become, if we are Orthodox or of the Correct Belief, part of that Spiritual Body the Body of Christ IMHB Christ through St Paul the Apostle teachs in 1 Corinitains 15:38 thru 1 Corinitains 15:51.