Tag: heaven
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(This remarkable story is related by Dr. Reggie Anderson in his book Appointments With Heaven. He was the family physician of Stephen Curtis Chapman when the tragedy happened with their adopted daughter. “Lois” in this story was a blind elderly patient of his.)
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Michael Guillén (a scientist with a PhD in physics, math, and astronomy from Cornell, taught physics at Harvard) published an intriguing, thought-provoking opinion piece here entitled Is heaven real? Science may reveal where God’s eternal kingdom exists. “Our best astronomical observations — and Einstein’s theories of special and general relativity…
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Near Death Experiences (NDEs) – where people undergo physical death (perhaps through an accident or on the operating table) and experience heaven (or hell) for a short duration, and then return to bodily life – make for popular reading. Some think they should be used in apologetics. I disagree. I’m…
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With medical advances, there are intriguing cases of people apparently being brought back from physical death and subsequently recounting a near-death experience (NDE). I am cautious about accepting the truth and reality of NDEs, especially because some people have confessed to making up NDEs. More importantly, not all NDEs have…
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University of North Carolina sociologists Christian Smith and Melinda Lundquist Denton in 2005 published a massive study of the religious beliefs of teenagers. Their conclusion was that most of these teenagers adhered to a variation of Deism called moralistic therapeutic deism (MTD). This form of deism is certainly not limited…
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Christian Apologetics 