Anastasia: The myth of the miraculous survival

From: Skeptic | Date: January 1, 1998| Author: | Copyright information

"From a word to a word was I led."-Havamal (The Sayings of the High One) from the Poetic Edda of Iceland. (The speaker is the god Odin.)

IN THE PROCESS OF RESEARCHING AN UPCOMING BOOK, I came across a passage in the Gospel of John which indicated that the author saw the end of the world as taking place in his own generation. Jesus says (John 5:25-29):

Truly, truly, I say to you, the hour is coming, and now is, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live. For as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son also to have life in himself, and ...

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