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Can I Ask God to Extinguish My Consciousness?

Posted on July 19, 2026 by Lee — 10 Comments

We are created so that our inner self cannot die. We can believe in God and love God, which means we can have a relationship with God through faith and love. And having a relationship with God is living to…

Tagged with: angels, animal afterlife, animals, annihilationism, death, eternal now, eternity, heaven, hell, the afterlife, time and space
Posted in The Afterlife

Can We Trust Anything Near-Death Experiencers Say?

Posted on May 17, 2026 by Lee — 4 Comments

Not long ago a reader named David submitted a Spiritual Conundrum to Spiritual Insights for Everyday Life asking about near-death experiences (NDEs), why they’re so contradictory, and whether we can trust anything near-death experiencers (NDEers) say. He is also struggling…

Will We Remember Loved Ones Who Go to Hell?

Posted on March 1, 2026 by Lee — 72 Comments

What if someone we love goes to hell? Will we still remember them? Won’t that kind of suck? That is the essence of some questions that a reader named Max asked in several recent comment threads here on Spiritual Insights…

Tagged with: abusive relationships, family, friends, heaven, Heaven and Hell, hell, love, memory, the afterlife
Posted in The Afterlife

Will We Meet Christ In the Clouds?

Posted on July 10, 2025 by Lee — 42 Comments

Here is a Spiritual Conundrum submitted to Spiritual Insights for Everyday Life by a reader named Olakunle Ilori: For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of…

Mats “Ibelin” Steen: Heaven in a Video Game

Posted on April 19, 2025 by Lee — 12 Comments

On November 18, 2014, Mats “Ibelin” Steen ceased his daily thirty-minute run through the villages, fields, forests, hills, and valleys of a virtual world. From then on, he could do his daily run through the villages, fields, forests, hills, and…

What’s the Difference Between Time in Heaven and Time on Earth?

Posted on February 9, 2025 by Lee — 28 Comments

Here is a Spiritual Conundrum submitted to Spiritual Insights for Everyday Life by a reader named Carl McGuire: What’s the difference between time in heaven and time on earth? Here on earth, the events of our lives unfold against a…

Tagged with: atomic clocks, clocks, heaven, psychological time, spiritual time, the afterlife, time, time and space, time in heaven
Posted in The Afterlife

Are Angels Sexless Beings?

Posted on May 19, 2024 by Lee — 37 Comments

In traditional Christian mythology, angels are sexless beings. The Bible disagrees with that mythology. In the Bible, angels are described as men. Not as generic, sexless human beings, but as men: male human beings. And if there are male angels,…

What do “Biblically Accurate Angels” Look Like?

Posted on May 12, 2024 by Lee — 39 Comments

Oh yes, the memes are circulating! They show terrifying “biblically accurate angels” that look like four-headed, six-winged beasts, or like massive wheels inside of wheels, all covered with eyes. “Be not afraid!” the memes gleefully taunt! There’s only one problem.…

Tagged with: angels, biblically accurate angels, cherubim, Ezekiel, the Bible, wheels within wheels, wings
Posted in The Afterlife, The Bible Re-Viewed

The Ancestors in African Spirituality in Comparison with Swedenborg’s Experience of the Spiritual World

Posted on January 10, 2024 by Lee — 14 Comments

(Note: This post is a lightly edited version of a paper written in 2022 for an academic program at the University of Pretoria in South Africa. References for some quotations have been left in condensed academic format. For full publication…

How Can I Be Sure that My Partner will Be Waiting for Me in Heaven?

Posted on February 2, 2022 by Lee — 77 Comments

The article “Will Happily Married Couples be Together in Heaven?” has become one of the most heavily read posts here on the Spiritual Insights for Everyday Life website. Since the time it was published five years ago, it has been…

Tagged with: death, eternal marriage, heaven, love, marriage, marriage in heaven, soulmates
Posted in Sex Marriage Relationships, The Afterlife

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