Is This How We Live Forever?

The cover article in our March-April 2024 issue explored the tech industry’s race for immortality through AI and microchip implants, and the key ingredient that’s missing from those plans: the human spirit.

“Why You Don’t Have an Immortal Soul”

I read your article with great interest. While pondering it, I wonder if it comports with Luke 16:19-31, where Jesus described the plight between the rich man and Lazarus after they both died? Similarly, Revelation 6:9-11 describes the cry of the martyrs. I am looking for answers so please do not think I am being argumentative. -- From the Internet

Great questions! For lack of space, we’ll direct you to our short study guide The Truth About the Rich Man and Lazarus, where we cover that parable and its interpretation in-depth. And our study guide Heaven & Hell: What Does the Bible Really Teach? addresses the Revelation passage in a sidebar titled “Do Some Bible Verses Teach We Have an Immortal Soul?” Thanks again for the questions!

The entire topics covered under the issue of March-April 2024 are exciting, and more particularly emphasis should be made on the article “Teen Mental Health: Light at the End of the Tunnel.” It explains thoroughly how vexingly the present teenagers are addicted to and under mental agony. Thank you! -- From the Internet

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Proofreading error in “Human Nature: What You Need to Know” from the May-June issue

I was reading the article in the May-June edition of Beyond Today magazine on human nature. On page 11, there’s a scripture misquote for Ephesians 2:2. It’s not the “sons of obedience,” but the “sons of disobedience.” Just wanted to inform you of that. We have to be very careful with quotes from Scripture, especially in today’s society. It’s a very good article. First time reading your magazine.

Much thanks to you and some others for pointing out the mistake. It’s been corrected online. Though we sometimes find small errors after publishing, one like this is lamentable. It shows how we sometimes see in reading text what we think it’s supposed to say rather than what it does. And it serves to keep us humble.