WHAT IS THE TRUTH ABOUT THE HEREAFTER? SWALLOWED BY LIFE FREE TODAY

By Ada Brownell
Chapter One
Excerpt from Ada Brownell's book, Swallowed by Life: Mysteries of Death, Resurrection and the EternalFREE 04/10 THROUGH 04/12https://www.amazon.com/author/adabrownell
  As a retired newspaper reporter, I spent a career reporting and determining truth. Although I was a Christian, when our daughter died of Burkitt's Lymphoma, an aggressive type of cancer, I wondered whether I believed what I thought I believed and I began to search for evidence on the eternal.
Truth often is elusive, even when you have witnesses, testimony, and evidence. Courts wrestle with determining truth.          Societies historically tried many methods to expose a lie. In China, they used to fill a suspect’s mouth with uncooked rice and he would be judged guilty if he could not easily and quickly spit the rice from his mouth. The test was based on the idea that people who are trying to avoid telling the truth don’t create saliva.          Other ancient civilizations required a suspect to grab a white-hot metal rod and carry it to a certain point.



3 Eugene B. Block, Lie Detectors and Their Use(New York: David McKay Company, Inc., 1977), page 12.Josh McDowell, Evidence that Demands a Verdict, Here’s Life Publishers,  (Campus Crusade for Christ, San Bernadino, Calif., 1979), Revised Edition, page 179.Ibid , page 365.