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Samuel Goldwyn Films ’90 Minutes in Heaven’ . But we can turn this around slightly and look at it from a different angle: if many Christians disbelieve elements of many NDE stories because ...
The “Appeal to Heaven” flag, a popular symbol for Christian nationalists that was waved by January 6 rioters, was raised over ...
Much of “traditional” Christianity gives the impression that God has these rather arbitrary rules about how you have to behave, and if you disobey them you go to hell, rather than to heaven.
Billions of Christians around the world believe that on Easter, Jesus was raised from the dead and taken up to heaven to live with God. They also believe that when they die, their own souls will ...
For most modern Christians, the idea of “going to heaven” is a key belief. But early Christians had very different ideas on the subject.
The first Christians had very specific ideas about who they would meet in the afterlife. As this week’s Newsweek cover article insists, “heaven” is a powerful and pervasive word. It has been ...
In Heaven there is no sin, no option to sin, and so, by Christianity’s own definition, no free will. (Some skeptics point out that “love me or I’ll torture you forever” doesn’t exactly ...
Just 13% of U.S. Christians say that many religions can lead to eternal life in heaven, but that only Christian religions qualify. Catholics are more likely than Protestants to say that many religions ...
The Appeal to Heaven flag, or “Pine Tree” flag, features a green pine tree on a white field, with the words “An Appeal to Heaven” in black text above it. It was originally commissioned ...
Most people think that heaven is a Christian idea. But in an excerpt from her new book, Lisa Miller shows that way before Jesus it was Jews who first came up with the idea.