💭 How Do We Understand Death and Resurrection? (3) 🙌 So how can man return to God without God? For God, who alone is the source of existence, life, and sanctification, is the one who bestows. Grace is a loan, a divine loan, meaning it has no connection to created nature. Man was required to deal with his fundamental issues: death, sin, and the devil, using his own abilities. But a cure was impossible. Death brought about a tremendous change in human nature, a change in the very essence of man himself, which only the Creator could alter. Sin made human nature inclined toward evil, unable to understand God properly, prone to passions and lusts, and corrupted man's ability. As for the devil, he had dominion over man because of the passions and evil that made the devil's power to enslave man possible, indeed a bitter reality. Here we see very clearly that when the Son became incarnate, He gathered all of humanity within Himself when He took a human nature from us. Therefore, in Him we receive the fruits of union. Even those humans who do not believe in Christ will rise because of the resurrection of the incarnate Son, but how great is the difference between the resurrection of glory and mere resurrection. Here we see that grace is offered to all, but it works only in those who believe. These rise in glory, those merely live: "The dead will be raised imperishable, but not all will be raised in glory" (1 Cor 15:42). #Theology #Death #Resurrection #Incarnation #Salvation #Grace #Glory #1Corinthians