I often hear Christians talk about the “afterlife” as a supernatural state in which our immaterial “spirits” simply go on living forever and ever. According to our contemporary understanding of Christianity (and other Abrahamic religions), the soul is supposed to exist without a body and move on to a “higher” realm (often called heaven) that is putatively beyond our daily material world. Yet most are unaware that this wasn’t the view that the early Christians, the original disciples of the Christ, and Jesus himself held! In fact, the idea of the body-soul duality and the proclamation that what transcends is … Continue reading This Is The Most Influential Undead In History