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• The Existence of Life After Death

  You will never die. Your body will die, but you are more than your body. You are spirit and you are life from God, created to live forever.

• Where Angels Come From

  Many people take it as a matter of course that when we die, if we are good, we will become angels in heaven. There are many Christians, on the other hand, who believe that angels are members of a superior race of spiritual beings, who were created before the world began. Some even picture angels, as having wings and living among the clouds. This concept of angels, however, is not solidly based on the Bible.

• What Heaven is Like

  Life in heaven is not an eternal paradise of leisure. Heaven is a kingdom of usefulness. Everyone there gets personal satisfaction and true meaning from being in useful service to others.

• The Universal Human

  Everyone in heaven performs some function that helps all others. It’s similar to how each part of a human body functions in perfect connection with all others to keep the body healthy and running in top condition.

• The Sun in Heaven

  People who have had the near-death experience speak of seeing this being of light, which doesn’t hurt their eyes, but rather radiates pure wisdom and love. Swedenborg also talks about this in his description of heaven...

• God Lets More People into Heaven than You or I Would

  Good people go to heaven, and bad people go to hell. That’s a fundamental teaching of the Bible—one that we can count on, right? But who’s to say who is good and who is evil? We may think we can tell what people are like, but how much can we trust our impressions?

• Near Death Experiences: Tunnel to Eternity

  As an illuminating Swedenborgian perspective on the NDE and the entire afterlife journey that it promises, one book that we suggest is Leon Rhodes' Tunnel to Eternity.