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I have a feeling our being encased in a physical body for now is a learning experience, a decision of who you would like to spend eternity with and preparation for what our true life in eternity with a new spiritual body, will be. This body is a means to an end. The end: Our new celestial, spiritual body. Just as humans faint, tremble, fall like one dead, etc. in the Bible when they see an angel, and the angel has to help them to their feet, I believe if a human saw us in the new spiritual bodies we will someday have, they'd fall down and worship us as Gods. Our new spiritual bodies will be that amazing. Made to live in a new heaven and new earth where the laws as we know them no longer apply, made to dwell with the light rather than faint at even a glimpse of it. So, we can mock - now. I almost think, just as the angels in Gen 6 left their heavnely habitation and came down to earth and gave themselves a physical form, it was a temptation for them. If you have always been a spiritual being, would it not be tempting to see how it feels to live in a sensate body? To feel things, to touch things? I have often thought that was one of the temptations Satan used to get 1/3 of the angels to rebel with him. If we start in physical bodies, in eternity future, we would never be tempted to become physical again - been there, done that. Who knows what comes in eternity? We don't.

i like this question a lot because it was the very question that kept me from really being able to look behind the curtain of the way international and seeing the little man playing a big god like creature, and it took a whole lot of therapy to unravel the tightly wound dogma thinking in my brain, and it was very hard work and very scary work and it didn't feel good at all and lots of times i threw up and cried and screamed all night long because it seemed like i was ripping away any shred of possiblity that there is a god at all, but in the end what happened for me was that i came to a quiet understanding of things that brought me lots of peace. the first place my therapist started with me was to start thinking as if there was no god at all because i was so tightly wound up in my brain that everything was god this and god that and the adversary this and the adversary that, even to the point that i have read here many others were at that i believed it was god's favor on me for my great believing that i got all green lights on my way to work, or the best parking spot in the shopping center and really crazy thinking stuff like that. oh, and the really really crazy thinking about when the unbelievers won out over the believers and i tried to explain that it wasn't their god winning over my god, but their believing was bigger than my believing and how my god honored their believing because he was a just god and couldn't go against his own word and all that way international nonsense that was squeezing my brain almost until it popped! so my therapist worked with me a long long time to get me to the point where i looked at things without there having to be any spiritual beings involved at all but just that things happen by chance or by hit and miss. once i got to that point she asked me if i could then find places where there might me actual divine intervention. and that's when i began to understand that looking for the signs of god at work was the opposite of faith, and that it was really a need for proof that god was working before i would believe for another work in my life. once i came to this understanding, i also came to the understanding of what people were trying to say to me when they were saying that god had a plan for my life or that god was in control, or at least my perception of what they were trying to say. but what i think those things mean is like what it says in the bible about god could have raised up children from the rocks. see, if it takes us to do something to get god's work done, then is he really god? like in a human family, the children don't go around worrying about how the bills get paid or how the food gets bought or how the laundry gets done. for the children, it just all happens without them thinking about it all. as the children grow and learn, then they might participate, but they don't get a full understanding until they are out on their own and make their own mistakes. no matter how well parents prepare children for being adults, until a child has bounced a few checks they don't really get what it means to keep a balanced check book. so what i get from all of this is that according to the bible and many other holy books, as long as we are here, then we are still children, so we won't have an understanding of many things and we really don't need to worry about so many things because there's just not much we can do about them, anyway. what is that saying "the best laid plans of mice and men"? i'm going to look it up. here it is i think that says it all.