text: Thanks William. I would be surprised if after 52 years people still had not heard of Star Trek or "beam me up Scotty" transporter. But I take your point, which is why I included other analogies, including the Internet, Jesus' sleep and Paul's seed.
  
  I also agree re the hubris of pretending we know exactly what might happen when we die. One might argue that any "doctrine" beyond mere belief in God, or not even that, is hubris. 
  
  Yet for me personally though, there must be a better way to reconcile previously contradictory texts in the Bible. Although incomprehensible, Jesus' through His analogy of sleep and Paul through his analogy of a seed and types of flesh do try to help us understand the nature of the afterlife - if only a little but taking your point about its incomprehension.
  
  But I overall agree we should approach this topic with a degree of open expectation rather than dogmatic surety of the answer.