Curious analogy in Tennyson's "Love and Death"

[Todd]

you can't love christ if your dead :HUH:
here's another thing with poetry like this, can a person go to heaven then be sent to hell for breaking one of heavens rules or does heaven have no rules :HUH:
i see that god is love but that doesn't make it good eatings. i do like the sonnet but not the intent. will god love me should i end up in hell? if god is love who is death? surely not the devil. why is death the shadow and not the light that leads us to god?

To your first question: From a Christian perspective once you die or are resurrected bodily and see the risen Christ you become like him. This is the doctrine of glorification. In simple terms, you become incapable of sinning.

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