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Transporters & Sacraments? Frozen Embryo Guardian Angels? Human-Animal Hybrids? & More Weird Questions!

Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World

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Is There a Solution to Our Immortality?

According to saint thomas aquinas, every natural material system like our bodies will run down and break down over time unless it is supported by divine grace. So that's kind of the situation that we have pictured symbolically in early genesis. Adam and eve's bodies were physical, and they would have died if they're kicked out the garden. And so aquinas would say that our resurrected bodies, even though they'll still be material and would on their own run down, they won't be on their own because god's going to prop them up by his grace. That could be the solution to our immortality in the future. It may not be that the laws of the universe will be any

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