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31 be seen as the sphere S2 itself. In other words, S2=Cν∪Cσ This fact means that it matches the union Cν∪Cσ of the open sets Cν and Cσ of the finite numbers that are included in the sphere S2 itself. The sphere S2 is compact. As can be intuitively realized, the sphere S2 is a closed space. A compact topological space (strictly speaking, a compact Hausdorff space) is closed.(5) If the creations of this world are not closed they cannot exist. "Open" is not an attribute of this world. Therefore the image of the flesh of this world is compact. Thus the image of the open God becoming incarnate is simply open set becoming compact. The open set that cannot exist in this world arrives in this world through compactification. The incarnation of the open God can be understood without contradiction by being mapped from the openness of set to its compactness. The Resurrection of the Dead: the Open Manifold with Boundaries Humans die. Humans die and the flesh of this world is lost. So what happens next? Christianity believes that the soul remains. What good will it be for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul? (Matthew 16:26) As Jesus called out to God at the moment of his death on the cross: Father, into your hands I commit my spirit (Luke 23:46) The spirit of the human Jesus is clearly the soul of the human Jesus. The moment when Jesus gave up his worldly flesh he committed his own soul. However, as the human Jesus was at the same time God, the spirit of Jesus may have been the spirit of God, or in other words, the Holy Spirit. So what do we humans, who are not God, leave when we die? …it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body (1 Corinthians 15:44) We humans are born in this world as natural living objects, as flesh, and then die, losing our flesh and being resurrected as the spirit body, the soul. The human spirit is simply the human soul. The human soul is to some extent continuous with the spirit of God. God is spirit (John 4:24)

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