Thank you as always for the perceptive remarks. A study I’m doing now is on the Earth being perceived as female—a mother and an aspect of God the mother. (See here and here.)

We’re not used to thinking in such terms, and the text of the Bible has clearly been translated to remove the insight. But now that we see it, we realize, for example, the the mother-earth is the logic behind the Resurrection.

That is, we go into the earth (Sheol is understood to be within the planet), are ‘gestated’ and then ‘born again’ at the Resurrection, which is understood as a birth, as in Rom 8:22.

We Christians are not used to thinking in such terms. We like to think of a distant “Heaven.” The earth will be destroyed in an apocalyptic moment, and we go there and are safe and happy. That’s the thinking.

So in retrospect, the biblical terms, the Jewish spirituality, is actually sort of unknown right now. What is a spirit being? We might like to think they’re mental, unembodied, abstract and diffuse. But is that the evidence?

I suspect spirit beings are embodied but their forms of embodiment are different, and have different abilities, a subject Jesus refers to in John 3:8.