Life after death?

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Put very simply, God really wants to share himself with us.

That's drawing an awfully human blanket over the divine and it's motivations.

That's why I really didn't want to say it like that.
God is an entity that works towards proliferating itself and uses people as a way of doing such.

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So what do you believe? I'm not asking for the perfect interpretation. I'm asking for your personal interpretation of the passage of concern.

I said that I don't know because we have no proof.
The New Testament writer who told the story assigned afterlives to Old Testament prophets because that's what Jesus had taught him to believe in. It's like Hitler's Arian Jesus. The first people to write about these characters would have disagreed, but either Matthew, Mark, Luke or John is pissing on their graves because they believe that they have a better understanding of God because of Jesus, who they believe is God.
The story was probably written down to show that the old prophets who lived by the Torah accepted Jesus as a better manifestation of God, according to the writer.