The brevity and transience of this temporal life of joys and sorrows, loves and pains health and disease, it brings to mind the verses that Jorge Manrique wrote in the fifteenth century, when the death of his father, master of the religious and military order of Santiago: "Remember the sleeping soul, quicken the wit and awake, contemplating how to spend your life, as death comes so quiet, how soon will the pleasure and recalled how, after giving pain, and as we believe any past was better. "
If we look, therefore, see our temporal life begins at birth and ends when we die. Passes briefly hanging by a thread at any time can be upset by sudden death from an incurable disease or an unexpected accident, still short but lasts a hundred years. It's like a breath or a moment is death over time into eternity.
beautifully described by Jorge Manrique cuando dice: “nuestras vidas son los ríos que van a dar a la mar que es el morir…partimos cuando nacemos, andamos mientras vivimos y llegamos al tiempo que fenecemos, así que cuando morimos descansamos”. Nuestras vidas, pues, son semejantes a un río que nace, crece y discurre por su cauce y muere en la inmensidad del mar. Nacemos, crecemos y vivimos durante un tiempo ocupando un espacio en este mundo y morimos descansando en la eternidad.
Ahora bien, nos preguntamos ¿este descanso eterno personal es como el río en la inmensidad del mar que se mezcla y se confunde con las aguas de otros ríos no teniendo vida propia e individuad?; o por contrario, ¿ nuestro descanso eterno tiene own personal and individual life eternal, not mixed and confused with other beings?. That is, are born to die in the vastness of the cosmos as the river dies in the immensity of the sea?, Or now, are born to live personally with our own body and soul we have, death being the way to eternal life? .
For the Christian faith, founded in the Holy Scriptures and the Patristic and Ecclesiastical Tradition, we believe in personal resurrection of the dead and eternal life. Specifically, Job says, "I know that my Redeemer lives, and that I shall rise from the earth the last day, and again I have to be covered with this skin of mine and in my flesh shall I see my God "(Job, 19.23 to 27). The prophets Daniel (12, 2), Ezequiel (37.1 ff) and the Maccabees (II, 7.1 to 14) state personal resurrection of the dead and eternal life.
Christ Himself declares, "As the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so, he who hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life, and it will be time when all that are in the graves shall hear my voice, and will those who have done good to the resurrection of life and those that have done evil to the resurrection of trial "(Jn.5, 21-28). At the time of his death, he tells his sister, Martha, who wept inconsolably: "I am the resurrection and the life, whoever believes in me will live even if he dies" (Jn 11, 25).
The Evangelists Matthew (XX, 23 ff.), Juan (11, 24) and Acts of the Apostles (4, 2, 17, 18, 24, 2, 22, 6 and SIGTE., And 24 , 15)) also claim personal resurrection of the dead and eternal life. San Pablo, specifically states: "we do not want to be ignorant of the dead lucky to not grieve as others without hope, because we believe that Jesus died, so God will take them to those who died in Him, for the Lord , an order of heaven, the voice of the archangel and the sound of the trumpet of God shall descend from heaven, and the dead in Christ shall rise first and then we who are still alive will be caught up in the clouds to meet God in the air and we'll be there forever with the Lord "(Tsln. 4, 13-18).
the symbols or creeds profess the Christian faith: "I believe in the resurrection of the dead and eternal life." The Fathers of the Church and the Ecumenical Councils believe and express it so requests and our nature. In this sense, St. Augustine of Hippo says: "Lord, you made us for yourself, and our hearts are restless until they rest in Thee"
Now to the question where, when and how there will be the resurrection of the dead and eternal life will be like?. Christians believe that the dead will be raised where they were buried at the end of time and with a similar new functional bodies to which we have now in this temporal life, but immortal, incorruptible, glorious, swift and subtle. God created them, just be put back as well.
This is the great Christian hope!. Var
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