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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from God The Invisible King by H. G. Wells: personality, a soul or a spirit or both, existing apart from the
body and continuing after the destruction of the body, and being
still a person and an individual. From this it is a small step to
the thought of a person existing independently of any existing or
pre-existing body. That is the idea of theological Christianity, as
distinguished from the Christianity of simple faith. The Triune
Persons--omnipresent, omniscient, and omnipotent--exist for all
time, superior to and independent of matter. They are supremely
disembodied. One became incarnate--as a wind eddy might take up a
whirl of dust. . . . Those who profess modern religion conceive
that this is an excessive abstraction of the idea of spirituality, a
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