Hey Andy, if everything we give to one another in life is eventually buried with us anyways, then why do dead people need so much stuff?
Hi. I’m not sure what you mean in that everything is eventually buried with us anyways. However, you’re correct in that dead people don’t need so much stuff…in fact, they don’t need any “stuff” at all.
There’s actually a joke of a rich guy who, before he died, had all his money made into gold bars, then buried with him when he died so he would have it when he got to Heaven. When he got there, the angels looked at his gold bars and asked each other, why did he bring bricks of sidewalk with him?
The Egyptians were famous for burying stuff with their dead because they believed that they’d need it all in the afterlife. I’ve also heard of warriors from other cultures being buried with their weapons so as to be able to have them in the next world, and Vikings used to see Heaven, not as a place of rest or paradise, but of the eternal battle.
Jesus said to focus on our treasures in Heaven, versus those of this life. There are several meanings to that, one being that it doesn’t make sense to build up all your treasures and riches here if you can’t take them with you. Instead focus on the things that will last for all eternity (in the next life, not this one).
With that in mind, most people believe that people have a spirit, and that when we die, our spirit goes somewhere. So with that in mind, I guess the question would be, if the spirit, not the physical body, goes somewhere, then why would physical “stuff” without a spirit be able to go there, too?
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