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THE INCREDIBLE HUMAN POTENTIAL- PART
X
ISTHERE
LIFE
AFTER
DEATH
?
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Does the Bible teach transmigration ol souls? Going to heaven at death?
Does LIFE end at death? Does lile offer us no more than this "three score and ten" ?
WHY was humanity put on earth?
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there, alter al/, as Winston Churchill said to
the U.S. Congress, a PURPOSE BEiNG WORKED OUT HERE BELOW?
W
HY
this mystery about Jife
after death? WHY so many
be liefs of so many different
re li gions? How can we KNow? Can
we believe God? Adam and Eve
d id n ' t. Few believed Christ - that
is, few be l ieved wha t He SAID !
Could we believe God - if He
rold
us?
I said to my wife fifty years ago,
"I know the Bible says, 'Thou shalt
keep Su nday.'" " How do you
know?" she asked. "Did you read
it?"
"No, but I know it's there, be–
cause a ll these Christian churches
ge t their religion from the Bible,
and they all keep Sunday."
"Why don 't you look it up and
show it to me?" she cha llenged.
But 1 cou ldn' t find it.
1 chanced to read in Romans
6:23: "T he wages of si n is
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The mys tery here so/ved!
by
Herbert W. Armstrong
DEATH ... ." "Now wait a minute!" I
exclaimed, surprised. "In Sunday
school they taught me the wages we
ea rn for sinning is IMMORTAL LIFE,
not death - eterna! life
in he// fire."
Then 1 read the rema inder of the
verse " . . . but the
GIFT
of God is
eternallife ...."
"That's a shocker!" I expressed,
furt her surprised. "l t hought I al–
ready
had
eterna! life. I'm an
1M–
MORTAL SOUL.. "
1 had left church and Sunday
school when 1 was 18. But 1 had
been b rought up in an established
and respectable Christian denomi–
na tion. 1 became intrigued. 1 had
heard the preacher say, "The Bible
says, w h en we al l ge t to
HEAVEN . . .." I ehanced to read
where Jesus said. "No man hath as–
cended up to heaven." And afte r
reading a few more p la in bíblica]
statements, l began to believe that
even the churches TODAY
do not be–
lieve
what Jesus SAID!
What
does
the Bible say about life
after dea th? Did anyone ever die
and then actua lly
experience
a life
after death
-
and who could PROVE
IT
and expl ain to us what that life
was like?
The answe r is YES . Jesus Christ
Himself died and was DEAD. But He
rose from the dead and was seen by
MANY- including His d isciples. who
had been wi th Him for three and a
ha lf years
befare
He died, and 40
days
after
His resurrection. And
they went about loudly proclaiming
that they were eyewi tnesses of His
LIFE AFTER DEATH.
Chr ist Himselftaught that there is
LIFE AFTER DEATH.
He taught the Pharisee. Nicode–
mus, but N icodemus didn' t believe
The
PLAIN TRUTH August 1976