Few
understand what the Bible really teaches about life beyond the grave.
Maybe death would be different if it were predictable or consistent. But death can be so capricious. It hardly seems fair.
To us life is precious. But death is everywhere! We don't want to die. We don't want to see our loved ones die.
Scientists cannot tell us what happens after death. Too many aspects of life itself are intangible-too elusive to measure and record. Philosophers disagree on death and the afterlife.
Religions also disagree. Traditional Christian denominations generally teach that the souls of the dead live on in a place or condition of heaven or hell. Many non-Christians believe in the transmigration or reincarnation of souls at death. Still others believe the dead will never live again, that this life is all there is.
What really happens at death? Why do we even have to die? Can we know if there is life beyond the grave? Where can we go for meaningful, believable answers?
Maybe death would be different if it were predictable or consistent. But death can be so capricious. It hardly seems fair.
To us life is precious. But death is everywhere! We don't want to die. We don't want to see our loved ones die.
Scientists cannot tell us what happens after death. Too many aspects of life itself are intangible-too elusive to measure and record. Philosophers disagree on death and the afterlife.
Religions also disagree. Traditional Christian denominations generally teach that the souls of the dead live on in a place or condition of heaven or hell. Many non-Christians believe in the transmigration or reincarnation of souls at death. Still others believe the dead will never live again, that this life is all there is.
What really happens at death? Why do we even have to die? Can we know if there is life beyond the grave? Where can we go for meaningful, believable answers?
All,
who have had a life after death experience, witness that they maintained their
feeling of self, all of their mental and sensory abilities and their free will.
In fact, their vision and hearing became more acute; their thought acquires
precision and becomes extremely energetic, the memory clarifies.
People who had
long ago, due to illness or age, lost certain abilities regained them anew.
They could see, hear, think and so forth all without the aid of their physical
being. It is amazing; for example, that a man blind from birth, upon leaving
his body, could see everything that was being done to his body by the doctors
and nurses. He later recounted everything he had seen in great detail. Having
returned into his body he was again rendered blind. The doctors and
psychiatrists who define the functions of thought and emotion as just
electrochemical processes of the brain should look into the data gathered by
the reanimating doctors in order to correctly understand man’s nature.