The 49ers announced today that they have released Hurd, who had been on injured reserve. A talented athlete who had [more]. The judge intended the gesture to honor a veteran, but it had the effect of asking the jury to praise someone whose testimony they'll be asked to weigh in a homicide trial. Sajad 'Iranian Hulk' Gharibi's training is either misguided, innovative or impressive; we're just not sure which. Jennifer Garner shares a photo of herself from 20 years ago, looking almost exactly the same.
Bob Myers believes the Warriors will benefit from situations like the one between Draymond and Jordan Poole on the bench Wednesday. And we just learned where it came from. In a recent interview with Vogue, Sarah Jessica Parker fired back at critics who were stirred into a frenzy over her gray hair. Here's what health officials think is happening. Cellphone video shows multiple students attacking the boy on his birthday.
His parents said one perpetrator received a one-day suspension — the same their son received because he allegedly had a role in the assault too. The Sports Illustrated Swimsuit model opened up about the pressures of aging on Instagram. Tyrann Mathieu has nothing but good things to say about free-agent wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. Our greatest concerns, personal and national, are for survival. But for many people — even the otherwise healthy — the crisis has unexpectedly raised the specter of death itself, our constant companion even if, most of the time, we do our best to ignore it.
Or, in more normal times, try to laugh it off. The hero of the Epic of Gilgamesh writhes in agony at the prospect of spending eternity groveling in dust being eaten by worms. Plenty, however, tremble before the possibility of eternal misery. Possibly this is a good time to help people realize that it simply will not be that way. There are over two billion Christians in the world, the vast majority of whom believe in heaven and hell.
You die and your soul goes either to everlasting bliss or torment or purgatory en route. The vast majority of these people naturally assume this is what Jesus himself taught. But that is not true. Neither Jesus, nor the Hebrew Bible he interpreted, endorsed the view that departed souls go to paradise or everlasting pain. Unlike most Greeks, ancient Jews traditionally did not believe the soul could exist at all apart from the body. Adam remained alive until he stopped breathing.
Then it was dust to dust, ashes to ashes. Ancient Jews thought that was true of us all. It just stops. The Hebrew Bible itself assumes that the dead are simply dead—that their body lies in the grave, and there is no consciousness, ever again. And so, traditional Israelites did not believe in life after death, only death after death.
That is what made death so mournful: nothing could make an afterlife existence sweet, since there was no life at all, and thus no family, friends, conversations, food, drink — no communion even with God. God would forget the person and the person could not even worship.
The most one could hope for was a good and particularly long life here and now. But Jews began to change their view over time, although it too never involved imagining a heaven or hell. About two hundred years before Jesus, Jewish thinkers began to believe that there had to be something beyond death—a kind of justice to come.
Jews had long believed that God was lord of the entire world and all people, both the living and the dead. If God loves his people and is sovereign over all the world why do his people experience so much tragedy?
This new idea maintained that there are evil forces in the world aligned against God and determined to afflict his people. Even though God is the ultimate ruler over all, he has temporarily relinquished control of this world for some mysterious reason. But the forces of evil have little time left. God is soon to intervene in earthly affairs to destroy everything and everyone that opposes him and to bring in a new realm for his true followers, a Kingdom of God, a paradise on earth.
Most important, this new earthly kingdom will come not only to those alive at the time, but also to those who have died. Indeed, God will breathe life back into the dead, restoring them to an earthly existence. And God will bring all the dead back to life, not just the righteous. The multitude who had been opposed to God will also be raised, but for a different reason: to see the errors of their ways and be judged.
Once they are shocked and filled with regret — but too late — they will permanently be wiped out of existence. This view of the coming resurrection dominated the view of Jewish thought in the days of Jesus.
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In The Know by Yahoo. The Daily Beast. Rolling Stone. But after a week in a coma during the fall of , during which his neocortex ceased to function, Alexander claims he experienced a life-changing visit to the afterlife, specifically heaven. Alexander says he first found himself floating above clouds before witnessing, "transparent, shimmering beings arced across the sky, leaving long, streamer like lines behind them. He claims to have been escorted by an unknown female companion and says he communicated with these beings through a method of correspondence that transcended language.
Alexander says the messages he received from those beings loosely translated as:. From there, Alexander claims to have traveled to "an immense void, completely dark, infinite in size, yet also infinitely comforting. After recovering from his meningitis-induced coma, Alexander says he was reluctant to share his experience with his colleagues but found comfort inside the walls of his church.
He's chronicled his experience in a new book, " Proof of Heaven : A neurosurgeon's journey into the afterlife," which will be published in late October. And you can believe me when I tell you that it will be worth every bit of the work it will take us, and those who come after us, to get it right. A Chinese professor visiting Los Angeles early this month fought off an attacker using martial arts in an incident that has gone viral across Chinese media.
Pigai came to Los Angeles on Oct. Until I saw this. An Orange County mom has filed a police complaint after her daughter was left with a concussion from a sucker punch during a youth basketball game.
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