I don't know who Denny Karchner is, but as a univerasalist I identify with much of what is said in the graphic above. Denny Kartchner has a website and he has a couple of Facebook pages and a strong presence on other social media as well.
My quibbles here are with the idea that we will have a post-mortem conversation with God in our bodies and that some folks may take from this graphic that some kind of punishment or an eternal hell awaits people who have not loved people as God called us to. "The world to come" refers to both actual social and human relations in this world and to an after-death and resurrection that is spiritual. I believe, or tend to believe, that people who do not love others as God called us to---almost all of us---are experiencing degrees of hell now for not loving others. I also tend to view hell as something cleansing. The Holy Spirit is there and everywhere and God can and does save us from suffering; hell is not eternal, at least not as we think of "eternal." Those who do not or cannot love here may well find themselves in their spiritual forms there having to come to terms with why love didn't work for them and learning love as their necessary lesson before entering heaven.
Anyway. I do deeply appreciate Karchner's point of view as expressed here.
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