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givingchrist · 5 days
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But Is There Proof?
I have been blogging on the After Death Site every other week since 2016. It is fair to say that I am running out of topics. I have limited this blog to talking about what the Bible says about “unseen things”. In other words, what the Bible says about existence after death. While navigating to WordPress to write this article, I came across another blog about why some have abandoned their…
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givingchrist · 11 days
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Prayer: Reaching Inside the Curse
Praying is pretty common. There are times when most people want the help of a supernatural being. They may not even believe that God exists. They are just shooting off a prayer in hopes that someone or something will respond. As such, I do not expect that most prayers do get a response. Not a yes or a no. While God with His divine ability to know all things would know about any prayer and could…
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givingchrist · 18 days
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We Will Be Like Jesus
I often think about what the experience of being in Heaven will be like. I’m not sure that I can wrap my mind around it. What I think less about is what I will be like in Heaven. Perhaps this need to change. John says: 2 Beloved, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is. 3 And…
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givingchrist · 26 days
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Is the Eclipse a Sign from God?
Today I found something hanging on my front door when I went home for lunch. It was a bag containing a book and an informational card about the solar eclipse that will happen in our area on April 8. I haven’t sat down and read the whole thing, but I saw enough to react. The eclipse, which is rare for any one location but not unprecedented, was being connected to a Bible passage. It was a sign…
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givingchrist · 1 month
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Your Body, Soul and Spirit
A big question that affects both life and life after death is, “What are we?” You would think that we would know this answer before anything else, but this question is very deep. Those with a materialistic world view would say that we are just a body. To be crasser about it, one famous evolutionist says that we are just “machines made out of meat.” We are just chemistry doing what chemistry…
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givingchrist · 2 months
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Is Your Religious Narrative True?
All the major and probably most of the minor world religions have narratives about the interaction of God(s) and mankind, the creation of the world, the existence of spiritual worlds that are not directly observable, and things like that. These narratives help form our worldviews and cultures, but are they true or are they just myths? First of all, does it matter? We may be very satisfied with…
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givingchrist · 2 months
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When Nobody Speaks Your Name
There is a tradition common among several cultures that speaks about dying twice. The first is when you physically die. The second is when you are forgotten, and nobody speaks your name. Variations on this belief can lead to distinctive practices. For instance, some cultures will memorize their family tree. Others will mummify their ancestors and take them out for special occasions, or there will…
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givingchrist · 2 months
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Spiritual Malformation
The promise of the power of baptism is sure. When we are baptized in the name of the Triune God then we have forgiveness of sins, because we are part of the Body of Christ, and we receive the Holy Spirit (Acts 2:38). Unfortunately, this does not equate to “once baptized, always saved”. Even if we would withhold baptism until a person is more intellectually on board, we cannot guarantee that the…
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givingchrist · 2 months
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Heavenly Free Will
It is exciting to think about what our bodies may be like in Heaven and the New Earth. Can we move between Heaven and the New Earth? I think we will. Will we be stronger, faster, bigger, more coordinated? Will we look significantly different? Will we still be recognizable? All these things are mysterious and exciting, but I find one question disconcerting. Will we have freewill and if so, could…
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givingchrist · 3 months
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What Makes a Person a Christian?
We can all see the statistics. If the world were broken down into a religion pie chart, the biggest wedge would be Christian. The problem with the available statistics is that they are an estimate, and they are based on self-identification. These are not statistics downloaded from God.  I wish the statistics from God would show an even larger piece of the pie belongs to Jesus, but the reality is…
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givingchrist · 3 months
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Honoring the Elders
When I am bored sometimes, I scroll through Instagram to find an interesting video. One caught my eye yesterday. It showed a man bringing out a mummified human from a grass hut in central New Guinea. Having a mummified descendent in their home was a way for this tribe to “honor their elders.” I clearly come from a different culture. I wasn’t that thrilled about having my parents over for a long…
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givingchrist · 3 months
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Why Does God Feel Absent?
I think most of us would have really enjoyed the relationship that Adam and Eve had with God. He was like a member of the family. They would see Him on a frequent, if not daily basis.  Unless you are blind, you really depend on your eyes. Even though we know that there are things that can’t be seen, seeing is believing for most of us. Everything else tends to feel a bit surreal. This holds true…
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givingchrist · 3 months
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When Does Eternal Life Begin?
Does this title seem like a stupid question? I hope to show you that it is more complicated than you first think. It depends on the definition of “eternal life”, so let’s start with that. God has made human beings to be eternal creatures. Once we have begun our existence there is an innate quality that preserves our existence forever. It is part of being created in the “image of God” 26 Then…
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givingchrist · 4 months
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How Can Only a Few Be Saved?
I honor the Bible as true. It is the only source I can completely trust when it comes to information about God, life after death, and how human beings can have life after death with God. That said, there are two passages in the Bible that I don’t like. I wish they were wrong. I hope they are wrong. But I feel no authority to change or to ignore what they say. The first is this: 13 “Enter by the…
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givingchrist · 4 months
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Weeping and Gnashing of Teeth
One of the problems with describing our existence after death is the limitations of words. Words have meaning because we can relate them to experience. If you have never experienced anything even similar to the glory of Heaven and the New Earth then all you can do is explain what is not there. Similarly, if you have not experienced the depth of sorrow, pain or hopelessness that characterizes…
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givingchrist · 4 months
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Be An Inviter
The birth of Jesus, the Son of God, puts an emphasis on a point that many people want to deny. The Bible states this fact point-blank, however, it is hard to ignore: 6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. John 14:6 (ESV) Jesus is not an option when it comes to eternal life. He is an absolute requirement. If other routes…
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givingchrist · 5 months
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Jesus: God in the Flesh
Without an amazing act of love that we celebrate at Christmas there would be no point in writing or thinking about eternal life, because all that would be waiting for us would be judgement. The miracle of Christmas is all about God becoming human. But what does that mean? The discussion below is largely theoretical based on the little information that we have. Jesus is a unique being in several…
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