We usually say it differently- life and death. That’s how the material man, the ego thinks. It’s not who the real “I” is though. The “I” that I AM, my spirit man, the invisible, eternal Ernie (II Cor. 4:18) was once before. We all WERE before we were birthed into this physical realm. The FALL isn’t as religion speaks of it. I will write more about that later; however, Ephesians 1:4 speaks of us as spirit beings before the foundation of the world. We are Spirit beings, always have been, always will be. We’re here on earth having a human experience, and trying to survive it the best we can. Not all that easy is it?
We were once spirit beings.
In the Genesis allegory, mankind chose to be “separate from God“, to leave the heavenly, spiritual realm and taste of human life. We died to that life and were birthed into this life we now know as homo sapien sapiens. It’s a choice we made (Adam & Eve) to “know good and evil“. How’s that working for you?
My, my how the movie, the Matrix, is so prophetic.
At some point we will all die again, to this life, and be born again (smile) into eternal life only as spirit beings. Death to this material life will involve birth into another. There is something in this human consciousness that survives this death and it is an universal concept shared by all religions intuitively.
We intellectually KNOW that our lives are “conditioned, enculturated“. We’re subject to the various influences of our culture, social standing, and religious attachments and bias. And there is enough religious bias: more than enough. As Richard Rohr said in his June 30th meditation, “Sometimes the Roman Catholic Church takes for granted that it speaks for God without acknowledging that what it says is often politically and culturally conditioned. That’s dangerous“.
Indeed! 
And then he put a nail in the religious, denominational coffin by adding, “Why do we have to continue to carry the baggage of denominational issues we divided over? If I cannot trust and work together with other Christians, what hope is there for ecumenism with Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism? What hope is there for the world?”
Give me, give us the compassion, forgiveness, and determination to experience the LIFE that Jesus did, while we can!
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