"Preparation For Eternity"

"Then shall He answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me. And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal." (Matthew 25:45 & 46) I am thinking that we are going to have eternity no matter what path we are on, so really the question comes down to, Where do you want to hang out? This flesh will be gone either way, because it is attached to this world and the things that are corrupted; but our soul, that is another issue all in of it's self. When God breathed into man's nostrils at the time of creation, it says that man became an eternal soul; and at that time man's soul and God's Spirit were united as One. When Adam sinned, his soul did not stop from being an eternal soul, but instead, God's Spirit was taken from man, causing man's eternal soul to be separated from God, and thus, separated from eternal life. This is where I think some confusion comes in about what death really means, because life and death have two very, very distinct different meaning; however, they are both definitely eternal! Before I get into that, I wanted to share about the word 'righteous' which Jesus uses to describe those that go into life eternal. This word 'Dikaios' is the equivalent of the word 'Just', but with legs; meaning that: "The just shall live by faith, but faith without works is dead". In the Old Testament those that were considered to be righteous, were righteous because they were looking forward to Jesus Christ. They were those whose conduct was made conformable to God and whose justification was made possible through their faith in the promised Redeemer. In the New Testament those that are called righteous are those that have conditioned their lives by the standard which is not theirs, but God's. They are people related to God and who, as a result of this relationship, walk with God. A righteous person is one justified by faith and showing forth his faith by his works... "That ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offense till the day of Christ; being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God." (Philippians 1:10 & 11)