Enno…I’ve asked this favor of you before….you did not post the entire quote and you did not indicate your snipiting…bad form. There are multiple ways to indicate an abbreviated quote.
Please note below that certainly not everything is the same as where we left off….no old bodies with disease or infirmaries or injuries, no warfare or violence or horrific weather/geology, no ugliness or aggression, no poverty and hunger, and no baldness!! It is our education/knowledge, wisdom, spirit progress that is the same….we leave much behind and gain nothing in slumber to arrive with much to learn….and some tendencies to unlearn. We arrive deficient and must learn to embrace this new world and experience with wonderful guides and teachers and mentors. Like here, some will learn faster than others. But we will all enjoy much better examples and much wiser education…individualized to our particular and personal needs.
So the quote below does NOT mean if you die in a car wreck or an alzhiemers ward or house fire, you will not wake up in a wrecked car or hospital or burning building. Everything will be different….and better except our spiritual development and intellectual levels of knowledge and reasoning will be the same as upon our mortal death. Naturally, some of us insist on humanizing heaven as we make gods in our own image. There’s much to read and learn about this awesome adventure to come filled with the grandeur and majesty and wonder of the heavenly hosts. (pun intended!)
47:3.1 (532.7) On the mansion worlds the resurrected mortal survivors resume their lives just where they left off when overtaken by death. When you go from Urantia to the first mansion world, you will notice considerable change, but if you had come from a more normal and progressive sphere of time, you would hardly notice the difference except for the fact that you were in possession of a different body; the tabernacle of flesh and blood has been left behind on the world of nativity.
47:3.7 (533.5) On mansion world number one (or another in case of advanced status) you will resume your intellectual training and spiritual development at the exact level whereon they were interrupted by death. Between the time of planetary death or translation and resurrection on the mansion world, mortal man gains absolutely nothing aside from experiencing the fact of survival. You begin over there right where you leave off down here.
47:3.8 (533.6) Almost the entire experience of mansion world number one pertains to deficiency ministry. Survivors arriving on this first of the detention spheres present so many and such varied defects of creature character and deficiencies of mortal experience that the major activities of the realm are occupied with the correction and cure of these manifold legacies of the life in the flesh on the material evolutionary worlds of time and space.
47:3.9 (534.1) The sojourn on mansion world number one is designed to develop mortal survivors at least up to the status of the post-Adamic dispensation on the normal evolutionary worlds. Spiritually, of course, the mansion world students are far in advance of such a state of mere human development.
"Live loyally today—grow—and tomorrow will attend to itself. The quickest way for a tadpole to become a frog is to live loyally each moment as a tadpole."
