Part 9 of 10

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"How can that be, by the way? Shouldn't they have hovered, like us? And wasn't Jesus supposed to have 'descended to Hell'?"

"Three days and three nights is the longest a spirit would hover. There's nothing that says the spirit is bound to stick around at all. But you see, the Jews wouldn't have believed it was a true resurrection if Jesus's body hadn't lain dead at least that long. They would've thought it was just a revival, that he hadn't really died. And when they talked about 'paradise' they meant an area inside Sheol, Hades, where the righteous awaited judgement."

"Can you kill yourself and still be...righteous? "

"You're still worried about that man who was here?"

"Yes, and curious, aren't you? If we can understand the rules maybe we can understand the rule-maker."

"You don't think it's too late to bother?"

"I can't believe that a god of love - which is what he is supposed to be yes? - would cast our eternity on a matter of timing. If two people really love each other, 'You're too late' never stands up for long. Is God's love weaker than Man's?"

"You know, you sound as though you have faith."

"Do I?"

"As to the man, 'Love covers a multitude of sins.'"

"Did he act out of love? He claimed to be acting selfishly throughout his story."

"He certainly lacked faith, but understanding his deeds weren't selfless doesn't mean it wasn't love."

"It comes down to love then?"

"'And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.' Tell me, if you were the princess's lover in Stockton's Lady or the Tiger, condemned by the king to choose one of two doors and thereby spend your life with someone you didn't love, or die, would you open the door the princess pointed you to? Would you trust her, her love of you? And which would be the greater love, to betray you to death or betray you to a life of sadness yoked to someone you don't love?"