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Definition: Death

Everything that lives on earth must die—cease to exist. But our concepts about the definition of death have shifted.

Previous generations held that when a person's breath no longer clouded a mirror, when a heart no longer beat within a chest, death arrived. Today, we talk about brain death and measure that organ's activity with high-tech machinery.

On a more philosophical level, Christians have spoken of the moment when the soul leaves the body—terminology that the human Jesus, like his Jewish contemporaries, would have found strange. In Jewish thought, a human being was an indivisible whole. It was the Greeks who thought of us as a spiritual essence trapped in a body. When Christianity spread beyond Jerusalem to the Greek world, it adopted their idea.

Source:
Youth Update Glossary
St. Anthony Messenger Press, 2002

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Adam and Eve?

Some people say that Adam and Eve weren’t real. Then why is their story in the Bible? How do we know what is real?

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Source:Youth Update GlossarySt. Anthony Messenger Press, 2002

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Source:
Youth Update Glossary
St. Anthony Messenger Press, 2002