Secrets from Beyond The Grave

6. C. F. Hogg and W. E. Vine, The Epistles to the Thessalonians With Notes Exegetical and Expository (London: Pickering & Inglis, 1929), 172.

7. Robert A. Morey, Death and the Afterlife (Minneapolis, MN: Bethany House, 1984), 50.

8. Flavius Josephus, The Wars of the Jews , Book II, chapter 8.11, Christian Classics Ethereal Library, http://www.ccel.org/j/josephus/works/war-2.htm (accessed April 21, 2010).

9. Justin Martyr, "Chapter XX: Heathen Analogies to Christian Doctrine," in The First Apology of Justin , http://www.tertullian.org/fathers2/ANF-01/anf01-46.htm (accessed April 21, 2010).

10. John Deedy, The Catholic Fact Book (n.p.: Thomas More Press, 1990), 374.

11. The Council of Trent: The Sixth Session , trans. J. Waterworth (London: Dolman, 1848), Hanover Historical Texts Project, "Decree on Justification," Canon XXX, http://history.hanover.edu/texts/trent/ct06.html (accessed April 21, 2010). 12. The Council of Trent: The Twenty-Fifth Session , ed. and trans. J. Waterworth (London: Dolman, 1848), Hanover Historical Texts Project, "Decree Concerning Purgatory," http://history.hanover.edu/texts/trent/ct25.html (accessed April 21, 2010).

13. F. L. Cross and E. A. Livingstone, eds., Dictionary of the Christian Church , 3rd edition (n.p.: Hendrickson Publishers, 2007).

14. Plato, as quoted in Homer William Smith, Man and His Gods (n.p.: Grosset's Universal Library, 1956), 127.

Chapter 8 The Mystery of Near-Death Experiences

1. Maurice Rawlings, Beyond Death's Door (Nashville, Thomas Nelson, 1978), 3.

Chapter 9 The Greatest Homecoming Ever Known

1. This story happened during the Vietnam War, and I heard it related by Jimmy Swaggart when he preached a message in the late 1970s from a local church.

2. For more information about the discovery of DNA, see Lotta Fredholm, "The Discovery of the Molecular Structure of DNA--The Double Helix," NobelPrize.org, September 30, 2003, at http://nobelprize.org/educational_games/medicine/dna_double_helix/readmore.html.