Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: davidbu@loowit.wr.tek.com (David E. Buxton) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: After Death, What? - Authoritive Quotes about Plato, etc Message-ID: Date: 23 May 91 00:39:46 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Lines: 24 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article , cash@convex.com (Peter Cash) writes: > . . . . . > Since Christ has promised me (and all who believe) that we will drink the > new wine of paradise with him, we shall do so. Metaphysical questions about > minds, bodies, souls, and spirits have nothing to do with it. One day, I > will die. One day, I will live again. Consider the many movies from Hollywood that leverage the popular notions of speeding away to heaven when we die. It is typical in these movies that the departed loved one returns to haunt a house(s), torment the living, or communicate and assist the living. So, what is at first glance quite innocent ends up as spiritualism. Thousands of Christians would be spared the many popular forms of modern spiritualism and the fringes and outright New Age theologies that are so entrenched already in Christianity. Sure, you yourself may be thoroughly secure from Christian Spiritualism, but many are not. The Bible warns us that we cannot serve two masters, we cannot be Christians and Spiritualists, but so many prophessed Christians know little of the difference, are vulnerable to the delusions of Satan, who we are warned is capable of masquerading as an angel from God - offering dilussions designed to lead astray the very elect of God. So, it is really no small issue after all. Dave (David E. Buxton)