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Our Immortal Soul escapes the body's death. Once the soul escapes the body, it continues to live on with other souls in the realm of eternal ideas. Well, that's what Plato tells us Socrates taught us. Does this give you hope? Our Immortal Soul escapes the body's death. Really?

Do you want to get born again? Like the Greek idea of the immortal soul, the Indian idea of reincarnation relies on a soulechtomy--that is, the removal of an immaterial soul from a physical body. Hindus, Buddhists, and Jains add the wheel of rebirth until the soul realizes its oneness with the All, the ground of all reality. The soul is then liberated from reincarnation. Reincarnation is only a detour en route to full liberation.

Scientists and the U.S. Department of Defense are taking reports of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP/UFO) much more seriously now. Does this amount to a sea change beyond the giggle factor? Are UFOs Real? A seachange of acceptance among scientists.

Death in naturalism is considered natural. Only natural. When yer dead, yer dead. Get over it. Don't ask for more. That's answer to the afterlife question. Death in naturalism means: when yer dead, yer dead! Get over it.

Even though the Grim Reaper comes to us all, our anxiety leads us to deny death as long as we can. But, denial of death leads to sin, to trying to steal the life force from our neighbors. Can faith relieve our anxiety and reduce our sinning against our neighbors? Denial of death enkindles the fires of sin. Ugh!

Benedict XVI's career as a systematic theologian is well worth remembering. Here we look at his treatment of the soul in (1) the resurrection of the dead and in (2) the stem cell controversy. Let's review Benedict XVI's treatment of the soul in the resurrection and stem cell controversies.

The origins of church growth are far different than what most of us have been taught recently, according to Dr. McIntosh.