![]() These are checkpoints, and you will see many of them throughout the game. On the way, you will pass under overhanging chimes. Follow the path until you find yourself in a wide cavern. ![]() This will reawaken the Shaman Spirit, the Shaman will disintegrate after thanking you, and the path will be opened. When you’re are beside the Shaman, click O again to drop the rod. You will notice the closer you get to the Shaman, the crystal on the light begins to glow. When you near it click O (PS4) to retrieve it. Following it, you will find yourself in a small cavern. The right side is blocked by rocks, and lying in front of it is a skeleton with a robe. As you enter the cave, continue to follow the path. You are encouraged to head towards the cave. If you look closely enough, you will see a cave in the distance. After you do this,another cutscene will arrive, showing you a beautiful, snowy landscape. After a few moments of watching the cutscene, you will be encouraged to walk towards a hill and stand beside a pile of rocks. The Ted Fox, (you) is running through the snow, following a red trail in the sky. Jesus said to the thief on the cross, “I say to you, today you shall be with me in paradise.” The image of Dives and Lazarus in the New Testament (Luke 16:19-31) indicates to me that there is a continuity of life and of consciousness in that intermediate state.When you enter the game for the first time, you will be met with a cutscene. But the apostle’s judgment that the passing beyond the veil of death to that intermediate state is far better than this one gives us a clue, along with a host of other passages. On the one hand, his desire was to depart and be with Christ, which is far better, and on the other hand, he had a desire to remain alive and continue his ministry on this earth. Paul said that he was caught between two things. But the intermediate state is even better. Paul put it this way: To live in this world is good the greatest thing that can ever happen is to be participating in the final resurrection. The common Jewish expression that they are “asleep” means they are enjoying the reposed, peaceful tranquility of those who have passed beyond the struggles of this world and into the presence of God.īut the overall teaching of Scripture, even in the Old Testament, where the bosom of Abraham was seen as the place of the afterlife, there is this persistent notion of continuity. ![]() I think this conclusion is drawn improperly from the euphemistic way in which the New Testament speaks about people in death being asleep. The soul is still alive, but it is unconscious, so that there is no consciousness of the passing of time. It remains in slumber, in an unconscious state, until it is awakened at the time of the great resurrection. The idea is that at death the soul goes into a state of suspended animation. There are those who have been influenced by a cultic view called psychopannychia, more famously known as soul sleep. There is no interruption of life at the end of this life, but we continue to be alive in our personal souls upon death. The most common view has been that, at death, the soul immediately goes to be with God and there is a continuity of personal existence. We believe there will be a time when God reunites our soul and our body, and that we will have a glorified body even as Christ came out of the tomb as the “firstborn from the dead.” In the meantime, what happens? We believe in the resurrection of the body. ![]() Throughout its history, the church has struggled with the concept of what is called the “intermediate state”-our position between the time we die and the time Christ consummates his kingdom and fulfills the promises that we confess in the Apostles’ Creed. ![]()
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