Death is not a spectator sport. The mortality rate of humankind is the same all over the world: one death per one person. The question, “What does the Bible teach about life after death?”, becomes vitally important. Not everyone thinks there is life after death, though. Regarding the afterlife, Stephen Hawking, the brilliant cosmologist and… Continue reading We believe in the Life Everlasting
Tag: Resurrection of the body
What will our resurrection bodies be like?
We love superheroes. When I was 7 years-old I just about gave my mother a heart-attack by dressing up as Batman and climbing onto a high, narrow wall and casually strolling along it. Thankfully, she managed to cajole me down. We especially like it when superheroes are “normal” first, then something odd happens and they… Continue reading What will our resurrection bodies be like?
Why do we believe in the resurrection of the body?
A Swiss company has taken a fascinating and unexpected approach to memorializing our loved ones who have passed. The company will compress and super-heat your loved one’s cremated ashes and turn them into a man-made diamond that can be worn and cherished. It all begins with a chemical process that extracts the carbon from the… Continue reading Why do we believe in the resurrection of the body?
Should Christians be buried or cremated?
A not-to-be-named website claims, “Cremation is devil worship by profanely desecrating the human body which is a good gift from God.” Recently I attended a conference and one of the speakers stated that is was his “very strong conviction” that Christians should not be cremated, but buried in the ground.