Embalming was unknown in most of the world until relatively recently, so a body would have been put right in the ground as is. A cataleptic episode can last many hours, even days, which would allow enough time for a burial. When the person came to, he or she might have been able to...
but yet not forget. Or how he can choose not to “remember” sins, and yet not erase them from his memory. God chooses to put them aside, to ignore them and not bring them up again.
An extreme example of this is that if G is defined to be “an all powerful god that would never allow human beings to live”, then because our evidence E includes living human beings, that god G can’t exist (so we’ve just disproved a god!). Another example is that if your evi...
[00:15:58] Julian Walker: We can't really prove it to you. We know it either because our cult leader is God or has aliens talking to them, or we know it because we've uncovered through this, through doing our own research, some secret set of facts that somehow hang together in th...
Therefore there must exist an Infinite Being, God, who alone can possess and manifest the infinite power required to create and conserve in existence the finite cosmos. “Why is there something rather than nothing?” The answer to this ultimate question is simply “because God exists and creates...
have begun to be frequented, that the established religious rites, long neglected, are being resumed, and that from everywhere sacrificial animals are coming, for which until now very few purchasers could be found. Hence it is easy to imagine what a multitude of people can be reformed if an...
Evolution can be seen in its purest form in the daily evolution of bacteria. If you have read How Cells Work, then you are familiar with the inner workings of the E. coli bacteria and can skip this section. Here's a quick summary to highlight the most important points in How Cells Wo...
There they act in their relationships as servants, friends, and associates of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Krsna. Since these relationships with Krsna are based solely on love, however, the jiva souls have a minute degree of independence: they can choose to remain subordinate to the all...
Yep. As our girl Oprah says, “The universe can dream bigger dreams for you than you can dream for yourself.” In our experience, this is true. Dreams deliver compounded returns. While we always had big dreams for our lives, we never imagined we could be so happy and fulfilled. What ...
Rejoices Profound and StillAs we stared beyond the windows thereOver all the gardensThat have never beenAnd will never grow againHow longHow longThe shining winking starsThe clouds too highSo highPointing to some final starThe dull face of the skyAnd the sound of the callingOf the distant ...