Pope Francis suffered a stroke about an hour after getting out of bed Monday morning and died within minutes — after spending his final days fighting “to the end to be with his people,’’ sources said. The pontiff had been ailing for several months, battling serious respiratory infections that left him with “a swollen face,…
Millions in the Christian-professing world believe they will be raptured to heaven. They sing of “heavenly mansions,” our “home up above,” and of “going to be with the Lord.” In thousands of funeral ceremonies, clergymen confidently assure bereaved relatives their loved ones are already in heaven, and the belief is indelibly reinforced in an atmosphere…
Is it true that we human beings go either to heaven or to hell when we die? Hundreds of millions say YES! One of the fundamental beliefs of the mainstream “Christian ” religions is that of the immortality of the soul! On this belief is based the concept of an ever-burning hell fire as punishment…
Why did Jesus say “And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but He that came down from heaven, even the son of man, which is in heaven”? (John 3:13). Jesus, who had just come from heaven, and who appeared in human flesh, said, plainly that Elijah was not in heaven! Yet the Bible says, “. . . Elijah went up by a…
Probably the best known alleged “resident” in heaven is the famous beggar Lazarus! Countless millions have heard the story of “Lazarus and the rich man,” much embellished, and with impassioned attacks against the unfeeling, insufferable hauteur of the rich and their disdainful contempt for the plight of the poor. The famous parable of Luke 16…
Is there anything more important to know than what really happens at death? Millions believe they have a conscious, thinking, seeing, hearing, feeling “soul” within them—that THEY really ARE a “soul”—which will live on in conscious life at the moment of death. We have all been to funerals—sad occasions indeed—where we heard the sobs and…