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Do You Believe in Reincarnation?

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Religious boxes. They don't overlap much, unfortunately. I have no smoking gun, no definitive answer to complex afterlife questions, but I can point to what I have read and heard and look for patterns in the growing body of material since 2009. The Protestant/Evangelical box I can’t help but picture the TV guru, Dr. Oz. He takes one of his audience members by the hand and leads them to a table. He uncovers whatever he wants to show them, then takes them to the next table. So, come with me, Reader. Let’s go to this first table, on which is a box labeled “Protestant/Evangelical.” Looking in this box we find all kinds of books and ‘testimonies’ about healings, miracles, prophecies, exorcisms, changed lives, media scandals (alas), and even resurrections from the dead. The people in this box believe that Jesus Christ is truly the Son of God, Who died on a painful cross, was resurrected from death by the power of the Holy Spirit, and now represents all of those who trust in Him