Hi John,
I thought of a different way that the question could have been intended:
The answer is, by the obedience of Christ. As God with a human nature,
He is the only one who could have repaired the breach with God caused by
Adam and Eve's disobedience.
He accepted every sort of human evil done
to Him with loving submission to the Father. He was obedient unto death
and since, in death, His Divinity and Person continued to possess his human
nature, (separated though it was into body and soul by death), He has even
healed death — making Himself The Bridge to eternal Life.
His Resurrection took is Humanity into glory, and His Ascension united
it with the Trinity so that He could send the Spirit to join us to the
process.
We pass into His life-giving Death-Resurrection-Ascension at Baptism by the power of the Spirit.
We enter the Ascension in two ways:
- in hope, and
- by our union with the
Trinity, who indwell in our souls.
At our deaths, we hope that we will
have been faithful to the action of the Spirit and we will enter eternal
life.
Mary Ann
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