Have you read, “To be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord” ... is there a step in between? None I’ve found in Scripture.
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I do feel the presence of The Lord most of the time. I guess I have been taught all my life that there will be a judgment day that comes after Resurrection. I think that because the Holy Ghost is available that we can have the comfort of The Lord even now. I suppose that The Holy Ghost would still be able to comfort us prior to the resurrection but after death, but I do not believe that God, Jesus Christ and The Holy Ghost are all the same, Certainly They are all God but they are not the same. Christ would not pray to Himself. Christ would not ask for the cup to be removed from Him, He even said He would do His Fathers will instead of His own in that prayer.
I have a good friend who has returned to Catholicism after a religious experience in Rome who says that what is wrong with me is that I fail to realize that God is not limited to the 4 dimensions that us mortals live in. He says that in the construct of those dimensions what I say makes sense but that I am limiting the limitless God to what I know and that it is a serious mistake. Perhaps. It is hard to hang everything you hold dear to a conjecture. I try to make sense of The Holy Bible and that tells me the way I believe makes sense. But I realize that it may not make sense to others, especially those who are smarter and have a deeper understanding of dimensions beyond the 4 that I am familiar with.