Dualism (Identity)

by Balance_Maintained , U.S.A., Thursday, March 19, 2015, 03:17 (3318 days ago) @ David Turell


> > dhw: I have just read your response to David. I'll leave the above, but I see you are now claiming that the Devil has conned the NDE patients. As a result of his con, Eben Alexander, an atheist, is now a firmly committed theist, and as far as I know, many NDE patients do feel much closer to God after their experience. So who the heck is your Satan working for? And I would still like to know how the backup is made and is going to function.
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>David: Thank you for this comment re NDE. Since I am schooled only in the Old Testament, and have read some of the Gospels, I don't understand resurrection. I thought it meant getting together in some sort of heaven. In Revelations aren't the saved pulled up into heaven and the rest of us left behind, or am I mixing up two different beliefs? Jesus' resurrection was very brief.-There was a small group of "annointed" ones, 144k by number, that would rule in heaven. Everyone else's feet stay on terra firma.

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What is the purpose of living? How about, 'to reduce needless suffering. It seems to me to be a worthy purpose.