Jesus further speaks to His Father, to Whom He addresses in His Priestly prayer, overheard and fully recorded by Beloved John (Jn. 17) that fully secures that salvation is by Jesus' works alone, including the shedding of His sin-eradicating Blood alone, and recounted to the regenerate believer alone, excluding any justified, pre-sanctified human works of any kind (Eph. 2:8-10 as one indication, but enough though restated a thousand times, no less true).
What you, MHGinTN, have written is once more a factual statement that says that the human spirit may be restored to communication with The Creator as at the Beginning, while yet in this sin-soiled body, before its replacement by a new spiritual flesh-and-bones body like that of the Risen Messiah.
Remember, Jesus came to blood-clean human souls (Heb. 10:39), investing its yet-sinful-able flesh, but together with a freshly unsinning spirit accompanied by the Guiding Holy Spirit, the saved individual becoming ready for shedding of the old husk that now hides the chrysalis-like new spiritual body.
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Would you ping this post of mine to your ping list (upon your assent, that is)?
“... the chrysalis-like new spiritual body.” I like the imagery there. Paul did say that there is a spirit body. Thank you for taking time to post on this topic, brother.