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THE QUESTION
Life after Death
Do you believe in life after death? Have you ever been visited by the spirit of a dead relative or friend? Do such visions or visitations have any theological meaning?
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Sally Quinn and Jon Meacham on October 10, 2007 5:28 AM
FROM THE PANEL
What Near Death Taught Me About Life
Although I believe in a Creator and a life beyond the grave, my own encounter with death reaffirmed this faith.
Posted by Sulayman Nyang, on October 16, 2007 9:42 AM
Absolute Truths
This trip with the Spirit of Christ has been too eventful, surprising and beyond my imagining to wrap in a statement of beliefs. That is not the way love works.
Posted by James Anderson, on October 16, 2007 8:58 AM
Life After Death? Yes, Literally!
From where I sit, I plainly see many examples of the physically dead very much alive among us.
Posted by Gustav Niebuhr, on October 16, 2007 7:27 AM
Back to Basics
Choose to accept or reject the idea of an afterlife by all means, but let's not pretend that Jesus Christ and his apostles didn't teach it.
Posted by Michael Otterson, on October 15, 2007 11:02 AM
Happy Endings
Without life after death, life is not a romance it is a sick tragedy, a cosmic joke.
Posted by Thomas J. Reese, S.J., on October 15, 2007 10:40 AM
For Some, This is the Wrong Question
I take an agnostic view. I believe that it is unknowable and therefore, asking what comes next is simply the wrong question.
Posted by David Saperstein, on October 14, 2007 2:28 PM
Living the Afterlife
We Christians don’t believe in life after death. We have full belief in Jesus, and afterlife with him is implicit in our experience of him as alive in our here-and-now.
Posted by Willis E. Elliott, on October 14, 2007 1:32 PM
Sherlock Holmes and the Spirits
Some years ago, I awoke suddenly from my sleep at the sound of my dead father’s voice, ringing in my ears.
Posted by Anthony M. Stevens-Arroyo, on October 12, 2007 3:04 PM
A Pagan View of Death
Pagans see birth and life as a great gift, and the reward of a good life is to be reborn again among those we have loved before.
Posted by Starhawk, on October 12, 2007 2:37 PM
Spirits of the Body or the Mind?
Aside from the obvious influence of dreams and memories – which are very much part of this world – pure souls have a primarily unconscious relationship with us.
Posted by Adin Steinsaltz, on October 12, 2007 1:26 PM
Life To Come
We have no words, concepts, reaches of imagination to make sense of death in ordinary conceptions.
Posted by Martin Marty, on October 12, 2007 12:30 PM
Bible Promises Life After Death; Condemns Channeling Spirits
I've never had any visions from dead people of any kind, and would be terrified if I did. Consulting mediums or spiritists is clearly condemned in Scripture.
Posted by Charles "Chuck" Colson, on October 12, 2007 11:17 AM
I Believe in Life Before Death
The universe is not fair. If there is to be any justice in existence, we and only we must put it there.
Posted by Greg M. Epstein, on October 11, 2007 8:19 AM
Death is Not Final
Life rolls on till it merges in the Absolute. Life drifts on to achieve its triumph of the universal.
Posted by Rajan Zed, on October 11, 2007 7:11 AM
Agnostic About the Afterlife
If I were to make a list of Christianity’s ten worst contributions to religion, it would be its emphasis on an afterlife, for more than one reason.
Posted by Marcus Borg, on October 10, 2007 8:06 AM
Deadline Is A Reality, Not Just A Metaphor
Say it now. Do it now. Show your love now, because you may never have another chance.
Posted by Susan Jacoby, on October 10, 2007 7:43 AM
Whispers of Hope from the Dead
All cultures, ancient as well as modern, have been more or less familiar with the fact that people we love who have died can and do appear to us.
Posted by Nicholas T. Wright, on October 10, 2007 6:47 AM
Yes and No
Yes, I believe in life after death because Jesus taught about it came to assure we could live it with Him; and and Paul also testifies to it. No, I have never been visited by a dead relative or friend....
Posted by Cal Thomas, on October 10, 2007 4:30 AM
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jay s: Even atheists consider the idea of an afterlife. Who wouldn't? When you lose someone you love dearly, or consider your own pending death, th...
