Belief in Christ's resurrection transforms the believer's relationship to death — to die is to pass into God's presence

Mike quotes Jesus: 'He who believes in me will never die' (John 11). He references Paul's statement that he preferred to be absent from the body and present with the Lord (2 Corinthians 5:8), showing that physical death for the believer is simply a transition into God's presence. Getting this truth into the heart is both the beginning and the end of Christianity's answer to death.