Season 5 Podcast 62 A New Voice of Freedom, Argument for the Existence of God, Episode 41, “Dimensions of Life, Pt 3, Dimension Five, The Resurrection.”

In Pts 1& 2 we discussed the first four Dimensions of Life:

Dimension One: Our self-existing intelligence and consciousness.

Dimension Two: Our spirit body.

Dimension Three: Our mortal body.

Dimension Four: Life after death in the Spirit World.

In Part 3 we shall discuss

Dimension Five: The Resurrection

The purpose of life is to gain intelligence until one is like God himself. God has all intelligence. That is why he is compared to the brightness of the sun. How does one gain greater intelligence? The answer is very simple. It is not by going to the university. Truth and Intelligence are synonyms. One is as likely to become less intelligent through false philosophy in a world where propaganda and cause are considered more important than truth. The only way to increase in intelligence is to increase in light and truth, and the only way to increase in light and truth is to keep the commandments of God which are contained in the Holy Scriptures. The learning of man is good. It has been a tremendous blessing in our mortal world, but the philosophies of man change with the times. Eternal truths exist beyond the grave. The existence of man on earth is but a nanosecond to geological time. Time of mortal man is to geological time as geological time is to eternity. It can hardly be measured. A falling star. Nothing more. We are mortal beings struggling in the web of mortality, freed only by death and restored only by the resurrection.

We cannot understand the fullness of the Atonement unless we understand the resurrection. Christ did two things for us in the atonement.

One, he saved us from spiritual death. Spiritual death is being cut off from the presence of God brought about by the fall. Because the law of justice was broken, Adam and Eve were forever cut off from going back to the presence of God. We were forever cut off from the presence of God by being born to mortal parents. We are all descendants of Adam and Eve; therefore, with them, we suffered the consequences of the fall. In Gethsemane Christ paid for our sins, the innocent suffering for the guilty, thus satisfying the demands of the law of justice. That is why Christians use the term, ‘saved by the blood of the lamb’ or ‘saved by grace.’  The purpose of sacrifices in the Old Testament was to remind the House of Israel of the sacrifice of the Messiah. God no longer requires the sacrifice of animals. Our sacrifice is a broken heart and contrite spirit demonstrated by our obedience to the commandments of Christ.

Dimensions One and Two are called the First Estate.

“And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.” (Jude 1:6)

That would make Dimension Three, or earth life, our Second Estate. Dimension Four, the world of the spirits of the dead, our Third Estate; Dimension Five and Six, the resurrection and judgment, our Fourth Estate. Our Fourth Estate, of course, would include where we spend eternity.

By keeping our First Estate, we earned the right to come to earth and gain a physical body. How we keep our Second Estate determines the quality of our resurrection. Those who keep the commandments of God will have a greater resurrection than those who don’t. In Luke we read, “for thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just.” The quality of our resurrection determines where we live in the Fourth Estate. All resurrected beings have the following in common.

·      Adam and Eve and all their posterity will be resurrected.