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Jun 2024
44m 59s

Conversations About Heaven and the Soul

J. Warner Wallace
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In this podcast, J. Warner converses with Frank Sontag and Janet Mefferd about the nature of heaven and the soul. Have popular movies and books distorted the truth about Heaven? What really happens to the soul when we die? Why should we believe in the soul in the first place?

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