First I’ve got to recommend the new standard American version of the Bible 1995 version. Also this was a very interesting take considering we are often alone on this journey even in company. What my faith teaches me is that the duality is reconciling being of God but as a consequence not identical. His son given to death and surviving death in believing in the Christ and his descent and return tethers us to God like a rope in an underwater cavern put in place by our scout Christ for us to follow and therefore to believe in. What is the world hereafter is unknown to us but to annihilate the self completely whatever that self is there undoes the covenant. In other words there must remain a separation of our Father and our soul to give us the blessing of our justification in the world to come. Otherwise we are nothing and nihilism prevails.