2 Corinthians 4:18, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.
The smallest particle called an atom.
1 Corinthians 12:27, Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it.
Because we are all created differently, like snowflakes, yet we are one body of Christ. Or,
Matthew 28:3, And his appearance was like lightning, and his clothing as white as snow.
Purity
It's interesting you should post this... the reason being is that several years back I had a "dream". It was very revealing for me. Short version of it... I dreamed I was killed, and taken into the heavens, where I became completely joined in unity. Each "individual" was as an "atom"... meaning each person/soul had the physical form of basically a single point of light... but yet all united/joined, "as cells in a body" moving/functioning as one... the appearance was as if seeing uncountable brilliant points of light encircling the core of the purest, brightest, most brilliant, holiest light, (God). It was as the color of the brightest lightning... I had the sense that the purest/holiest were each in their place in closeness to God.
As I was seeing this, and as I would have a thought or question, it was like it was just instantly, made known to me..
I also observed other souls that were "dark", (cast out)... they were not included in the united, circling, brilliant light... but they were each completely isolated from everything... I got the sensation that it was like being completely and totally alone, with only your mind, in the darkness... nothing to see, or feel, or hear, or touch...forever endlessly searching franticly for another soul... for anything... any feeling, any contact... anything. These dark souls were tormented... alone, afraid, with an unending burning desire to feel God's love. To me, this represented the "outer darkness"... Their worm- the torment of being complety cut off from God's love. And the fire not quenched, as they will forever search, yet never find.
Mark 9:44 KJV
44 Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
I was also shown that we as humans are not emotionally capable of the full truth/love/revelation of God... meaning that if we only REALLY knew what it was like, that we would be unable to live out our lives here on Earth... we would only have one desire.. to be there instead of here! We would not want to eat, or sleep, or anything... we would only want to praise Him and hunger for Him, and not have the presence of mind to live our lives here as functioning people.
Anyway..... sorry about the lenght of this short version. If anything in here is not appropriate according to rules of the site, you can remove it.. but since the thread kind of went that direction, I thought it was revelant..
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I see I have "misquoted" what I referenced as being "outer darkness"....
to be proper, (from blueletterbible.org)
STRONGS NT 1857: ἐξώτερος
ἐξώτερος, ἐξωτέρᾳ, ἐξώτερον (a comparative from ἔξω, cf. ἐσώτερος, ἀνώτερος, κατώτερος), outer: τό σκότος τό ἐξώτερον, the darkness outside the limits of the lighted palace (to which the Messiah's kingdom is here likened),
Matthew 8:12;
Matthew 22:13;
Matthew 25:30. ((the Sept.; Strabo, others).)
