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Is There no Death?

JESUS not only said “I am the Way and the Truth,” but also, “I am the Life.” God is Life; and as there is but one God, there can be but one Life. Must man die, then, in order to inherit Eternal Life and enter Heaven?

Our Master said, “The Kingdom is at hand.” Then God and Heaven, or Life, are present, and death is not the real stepping-stone to Life and happiness. They are now and here; and a change in human consciousness, from sin to holiness, would reveal this wonder of Being. Because God is ever-present, no boundary of time can separate us from Him, and the Heaven of His presence; and because God is Life, all Life is eternal.

Is it unchristian to believe there is no death? Not unless it be a sin to believe that God is Life, and All-in-all. Evil and disease do not testify of Life and God.

Human beings are physically mortal, but individually immortal. The evil, accompanying physical