The first witnesses and participants in Jesus' resurrection obviously weren't in heaven. Their understanding of resurrection was something that happened once you were in heaven. Jesus was radically reconfigured and redefined by resurrection. And now they were being radically reconfigured and redefined by resurrection. Jesus was special, of course. But the disciples familiar concept of resurrection as life after death was now being totally recast as life "in the land of the living." Our eternal life begins the instant we accept Jesus Christ as our Lord and Saviour and surrender all to Him. Eternal life is now. Live like it!
Italic portions taken from Eugene Peterson's Living the Resurrection pgs 67, 68
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. . . the original sin is not primarily that man has “disobeyed” God; the sin is that he ceased to be hungry for Him and for Him alone, ceased to see his whole life depending on the whole world as a sacrament of communion with God. The sin was not that man neglected his religious duties. The sin was that he thought of God in terms of religion, i.e., opposing Him to life. The only real fall of man is his noneucharistic life in a noneucharistic world. The fall is not that he preferred world to God, distorted the balance between the spiritual and material, but that he made the world material, whereas he was to have transformed it into “life in God,” filled with meaning and spirit. ( Father Alexander Schmemann~For the Life of the World, p. 18)
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