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Trapped in Hitler's Hell
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • One Sweet, Hopeful Book
  • Holocaust Deniers: Read This One
  • A Lovely Gem of a Book
  • The epic and personal recollection of the hardships and difficult times during the second world war in Nazi Germany
  • Good
Trapped in Hitler's Hell
Anita Dittman , and Jan Markell
Manufacturer: Lighthouse Trails Publishing
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0972151281

Product Description

A young Jewish girl discovers the Messiah's faithfulness in the midst of the Holocaust

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars One Sweet, Hopeful Book.......2006-11-01

When I first read "Trapped in Hitler's Hell," it was called "Angels In the Camp." From the miraculous acts that God preformed for this faith filled German-Jewish girl, there certainly were angels watching over Anita Dittman. For example, while in the hospital the Nazi nurse who attended Anita refused to provide her with food. Knowing Anita was Jewsih, the nurse was trying to starve her to death. A Chritian friend in the next bed shared half of the one potato she received for food each day with Anita. They hid under the covers and ate their potato. The nurse was certainly surprised when not only did Anita not die, but actually gained weight and was soon well enough to go back to work. The book is filled with faith building stories such as this one.

Recently I had the priviledge of hearing Anita speak. Her book had really spsoken to my heart. I remebered many of the stories of her experiences during WWII and quoted them every so often. What an inspring lady she is. She concluded her testimony with a saying I shall always remember. Anita told us, "Safety isn't found in the absence of danger, but in the presence of God."

As one reviewer summed it up, there are important lessons we need to learn from Anita's exxperiences. She said, "Just as many of the churches of Nazi Germany fell quickly to the seductive message of the Third Reich, so many of our churches today are falling quickly for the seductions of the Emergent Church's apostate theology and the allure of occult eastern mysticism though so-called "Christian" comtemplative spirituality." Before it's to late, we need to get our lives right with the Savior. We need to let Him show us any sin and pray that He would lead us out of any erroneous doctrine and into His truth.

5 out of 5 stars Holocaust Deniers: Read This One.......2006-09-02

This is an excellent book told from the first-hand account of a holocaust survivor. The account is very well written and edited and you won't be able to put it down.

How Anita Dittman survived is simply a miracle and one can see God's hand in sustaining her existence and planning the extraordinary sequence of events that delivered her from her Nazi captors. God's love for the Jewish people and allowing her to survive to tell her story is a witness for all of us that Jewish people have a remarkable future desiny to play in the prophetic timeline leading up to the return of Jesus Christ.

I have heard Anita Dittman and Jan Markell present this story in lecture format. Talk about having a lump in your throat for an hour.

The sad part of this story is that Anti-Semitism since World Warr II has not really gone away. It's always there and there are disturbing signs all around the world that it could return even worse than the holocaust. We now have world leaders such as Iranian President Ahmadinejad and Palestian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas openly deny the Holocaust and the world's media and United Nations don't call them on the carpet for it.

The Book of Zechariah Chapters 12-14, Jeremiah Ch. 30:7, Revelaton Ch. 12 and many other biblical texts indicate that Israel will go through even worse trial and tribulation immediately preceding the return of Jesus Christ. If those times are worse than what Anita Dittman and her mother experienced, the world truly needs Jesus Christ to return to save the Jewish people from complete annihilation.

5 out of 5 stars A Lovely Gem of a Book.......2006-05-13

Anita Dittman's story is a vivid testimony to the sovereignty and faithfulness of Christ in the life of a little German-Jewish girl who finds in her Savior both courage and strength to meet each day in the midst of painful persecution and the terror of war. As Anita grows up, abandoned by her father and rejected by her non-Jewish teachers and schoolmates, her spirit grows more lovely with each passing year as she learns that Jesus will never leave her nor forsake her.

This story is not gloomy or depressing in any way. It is full of faith, hope, and glorious glimpses of the power and the love of God. I could hardly put it down.

There is a compelling immediacy to Miss Dittman's story. I felt almost as if I knew her. My faith in the Lord has been challenged and renewed as I've followed her through her trials and triumphs in the pages of this book.

There is a warning here also, with a striking parallel to the present. Just as many of the churches in Nazi Germany fell quickly to the seductive message of the Third Reich, so many of our churches of today are falling quickly for the seductions of the Emergent Church's apostate theology and the allure of occult eastern mysticism through so-called "christian" contemplative spirituality.

As many have described Hitler as a "type" of Anti-christ, so the apostate German church may be said to pre-figure the apostate worldwide "christian" church which the Bible warns will arise in the last days. Is that what we are seeing unfold?

If you want to be uplifted, forewarned, and encouraged during these "perilous times," read Trapped In Hitler's Hell.

[I'd like to thank Miss Dittman for writing this book. I will never be quite the same. :)]

5 out of 5 stars The epic and personal recollection of the hardships and difficult times during the second world war in Nazi Germany.......2006-03-09

Trapped In Hitler's Hell by Anita Dittman is the epic and personal recollection of the hardships and difficult times during the second world war in Nazi Germany. Dittman righteously describes the anguish she suffered throughout her captivity and solitude. Trapped In Hitler's Hell is an inspirational tale of one young woman's only certainty being that the God above her would protect her, and is highly recommended for all Christian and Judaic practitioners and students, as well as students of history during World War II, as this book is as informative as it is encouraging.

4 out of 5 stars Good.......2004-03-21

This book shows the what it was like to be in Germany at the time of the Nazi occupation. I have met Anita Dittman and she is an incredible lady with an incredible story.
Through Hell for Hitler: A Dramatic First-Hand Account of Fighting With the Wehrmacht
Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
  • A Curious War Memoir by an Anti-militarist
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  • Perhaps the most uneven book I've ever read from a German Soldier
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  • stay away from this one
Through Hell for Hitler: A Dramatic First-Hand Account of Fighting With the Wehrmacht
Henry Metelmann
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ASIN: 0971170916

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Summary:
The dramatic account based on the personal experiences of a conscript Wehrmacht soldier who, as a Panzer driver. fought in the Crimea, at the Siege of Leningrad and Kursk, the largest, most bloody and long-lasting land battle in modern history.

Detail:
The author describes his participation in the two main phases of Operation Barbarossa, namely the advance of the powerful German forces into the heart of Russia followed by their enforced 'Napoleonic' retreat after the battle of Stalingrad.

It portrays the gradual awakening in the mind of a young Hitler Youth 'educated' soldier of a Panzer Division to the truth of the criminal character of what he is involved in.

Having in mind that about 9 out of 10 German soldiers who died in WWII were killed in Russia, it throws some light on the largely unreported heroic sacrifices of Soviet soldiers and civilians often against seemingly hopeless odds, without which Europe might well have fallen to fascism.

It does not deal so much with grand strategies, tactics and military technicalities as with the human involvement of ordinary people from both sides having been caught up in that enormity of a tragedy, that epic struggle in Russia.

It throws light on the chasm which existed between officers and men in the sharply class-divided Wehrmacht with most of the top rank officers having been drawn from the old imperial aristocracy.

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars A Curious War Memoir by an Anti-militarist.......2007-06-07

Henry Metelmann was interviewed in the 1970s for the BBC series "The World at War," and I was taken aback by his almost offhand reference in that interview to the Wehrmacht committing atrocities while in retreat on the Russian Front. It was known that atrocities were committed, but Metelmann's matter-of-fact statement was astonishing in that it was made at a time when very little was being said at all by rank-and-file German soldiers. I purchased this book to try to learn and to understand more about this soldier whose attitude is, perhaps, not typical.

It is important to understand that this book was written at the request of Metelmann's children approximately 40 years after the war. What might have been emphasized had Metelmann written this sooner may have been lost with the passage of time and introspection. Thus, the book is more of an internal, psychological monologue (compiled many decades after the event by an anti-militarist) than any sort of "historical" account. It should be read in that light though I agree that for the military historian the lack of detail is sometimes irritating.

Previous reviewers raise a number of valid criticisms about this book. The most glaring deficiency is the lack of any account of the period from the Spring of 1943 until 1945. Many reviewers are also put-off by Metelmann's perceived "coldness" towards dead or wounded fellow soldiers.

But not everyone can be a Eugene Sledge ("With the Old Breed"), a Charles MacDonald ("Company Commander") or a Guy Sager ("Forgotten Soldier"). There is more to military life than being part of a Band of Brothers. Just as there are all sorts of personalities in civilian life, there are all sorts in military life as well. It jars when a "war memoir," doesn't follow the expected "form," but perhaps therein is some value.

I do believe that Metelmann was a member of the 22nd Panzer Division. That he clearly has a selective memory about the war in Russia is undeniable, but perhaps there is much that Metelmann does not care to dwell on beyond giving his children a summary and a moral lesson.

For the limited purpose of seeing the war on the Eastern Front through the eyes of a common, though perhaps not typical, German soldier, this book is worth reading.

4 out of 5 stars A Soldier With a Conscience.......2007-01-21

Here's the memoir of a 19-year-old kid conscripted to fight in Hitler's
brutal war in Russia. While imbued with the Nazi ethic of German racial
superiority and Germany's world-conquering destiny, Henry Metelmann is
a doubter and, as related in this book, turns out far different than the ideal Nazi killing machine. Traveling to join German forces in Russia, he alerts you: "After all I was not yet twenty years old, I wanted to live, not die." And as the German armies storm into the Soviet heartland
(Metelmann was a tank driver and fought in the Crimean and Stalingrad
campaigns with the 22nd Panzer Division), the carnage he witnesses and
participates in serve to solidify his doubts as he questions why Germany is brutalizing the Russian people. The subsequent German reverses on the
battlefield make him and his comrades cynical about the validity of
German reasons for making war on Russia.

What sets this book apart is the author's questioning of the German soldier's mission to "fulfill their sacred duty to our Fuehrer and Fatherland" and his guilt over the part he in played in that crime. Metelmann is honest and recounts German atrocities he witnessed, such as German soldiers executing captured Russian soldiers who were
Soviet commissars (Hitler's infamous "Kommissar Befehl"); the SS rounding up intellectuals in a sports stadium - most likely for execution - when the Russian city, Rostov, fell to their forces; burning down peasant huts and thus forcing the elderly, women and children out into sub-zero conditions (Hitler's scorched-earth policy) while German forces were in retreat and other incidents of wanton destruction perpetrated among the civilian population as "revenge" for the humiliating defeat at Stalingrad.

Other items of interest included his relating the innate dislike of many of the common soldiers of the pretensions of the German officer class (along with this Metelmann relates an incident of one of his comrade's "fragging" one officer who kept needlessly risking their lives on foolhardy missions). Also to be appreciated are his vivid descriptions of the vast Russian countryside in both winter and summer and his attempts at getting close to Russian peasants he comes into
contact with.

After the war's end and two years as an American and British prisoner-of-war, Metelmann asks himself: "In me was a great feeling of guilt, but also anger, frustration and disappointment. How was I to come to terms with all that?"

In the end, he provides an epitaph of sorts that answers his question.

2 out of 5 stars Perhaps the most uneven book I've ever read from a German Soldier.......2006-07-18

This reviewer has read several WWII books from German Soldiers. I've read this book and can't figure out if it's real or not. I'm like some of the other reviewers and think it's sort of real. However, there is quite a bit of mis-information that you can't tell what's real and what is a lie.

Now, you'll see a picture of the author wearing a M36 Heer (Army) uniform. The German Army stopped giving them out after 1939 when they were replaced by the M40 uniform. How did he end up in Russia in 1942 in an M36? By then all the German Army had was the M40 uniform.

The Author says he drives a Panzer III. But we don't see any picures of that nor or much fighting with the tank. Instead he is assigned to a half track and spends his time pulling around a 50 mm anti-tank cannon (PAK).

The Author is abandoned in a Russian village with an Panzer III at about the time of the major fighting of Stalingrad. He ditches his uniform, lives with the Ukranians, and the tank is allowed to rust in a field. It sounds like he was told to drive a tank some place and it "just broke down". When he and the tank is found the authorities must have figured he was not worth it. By that time in the war everybody was need, even a screw off.

By the author's own words he is caught stealing from an army food supply truck. Also, when coupled with several other incidents, it becomes clear the author may have been a "barracks thief", a person of low character in any army.

I do not like this book. The author seems like a petty criminal who just happens to be in events larger than himself. It's kind of like reading the exploits of a pick-pocket on the Titanic who was lucky enough to live.

I speculate this soldier was in jail for some years over some crime. He then is set free and has to be watched closely by his superiors and fellow soldiers. That explains his dislike of officers and inability to remember anybody he served with. You can't cross reference his story with other characters.

If you're going to read any books on the individual soldier then read either "A Forgotten Soldier" by Guy Sajer or "The Good Soldier" by Alfred Novotny. "Forgotten" goes into great detail on everything; "Good" is one of the best because it's a short and an easy-to-read book. This review likes easy.

This book is two stars. And it didn't earn them.

3 out of 5 stars A Different Perspective.......2005-09-23

As with other reviewers, I will agree that this is certainly not equivalent to the Forgotten Soldier, which is a book heads and shoulders above nearly all other German memoirs of combat on the Russian Front.

But we should take into account that the Forgotten Soldier deals largely with the GrossDeutschland Division, which was possibly the best regular army unit on either front. Henry Mettelmann served in the truly sad sack 22nd Panzer Division, which after its first tentative combat in the Crimea was pulled back by Manstein for more training. Even after its training it performed in a fairly lackluster manner and ultimately suffered casulaties equal to its inept performance. Therefore, the reader should not be too surprised at the author's lack of interest in the vehicles he drove (which I admit is maddening for any history buff). Metelmann's focus is much more on his own personal feelings of the struggle and his own effort to atone for having served the Third Reich.

I found the book very interesting and certainly in every war there are the Metelmanns. These are men who find themselves in a war to which they are pretty much indifferent. I found it shocking that after essentially abandoning a truckload of wounded comrades, he decides to take a break and roll around naked in the warm summer grass. How different from the Forgotten Soldier, where Guy Sager spends a lonely drive as his friend slowly dies from a hideous facial wound.

But hey, this is Metelmann's story and it is a fascinating one. Sure, it's more fun to follow the exploits of someone dedicated to their cause, no matter how right or wrong, but Metelmann is just not that guy. Yeah, he drank the Nazi punch and quickly spit it right back out. Some reviewers felt he was celebrating a sort of Marxist agenda. I think really, he is looking back and feeling huge regret for his part in the invasion of Russia.

In the end, I felt like Metelmann needed a way to sort out his experiences in a way that would help him atone for if nothing else...the admonishment of a Soviet woman cradling her dying 12 year old daughter. I am certain that for any of us that would be a tremendously burdensome memory. Of course they are those readers who might (as his comrades did) admonish him for not returning with the apples.

For those who seek an exaltation of war, this ain't the book. For those of us who share Metelmann's cynical view of nationalism and false patriotism that results in needless human suffering...this is the book for you.

And in the current political climate, it might just be timely.

1 out of 5 stars stay away from this one.......2005-04-08

It's a ridiculous book, the worst I've read on WWII. Herr Metelmann, according to his own account, spent most of the war patting Russians on the shoulders, making friends, admiring the Soviet Union, and avoiding combat at all cost. The book sounds very false, IMHO.
Ivan & Adolf: The Last Man in Hell
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Excellent Writing
Ivan & Adolf: The Last Man in Hell
Stephen Vicchio
Manufacturer: Woodholme House Publishers
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0965634299

Book Description

Ivan Karamazov cannot understand a God who allows the existence of evil. Adolf Hitler embodies the most horrific evil imaginable. Lingering together as the last residents of Hell, who will be the last man out? Is it worse to be a morally corrupted person, or one who cannot forgive that person no matter what? Is it possible to forgive without forgetting? Is it possible to forget without forgiving? Philosopher Stephen Vicchio's sometimes disturbing, sometimes humorous, always poignant new play explores the nature and power of forgiveness.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Excellent Writing.......2000-02-08

Stephen Vicchio does an outstanding job of conjecturing the eternal musings of two great haters. A real step forward in exemplifying the ideals of forgiveness and of self examination. Vicchio's portrayal of God is also a real twist of imagination. I highly recommend this piece.
Hitler's Bastard: Through Hell and Back in Nazi Germany and Stalin's Russia (Ian Sayer and Douglas Botting)
Average customer rating: 2.5 out of 5 stars
  • Self Serving Rubbish
  • Revisionist Review
  • Pathetic, sad story of a self-centred traitor
Hitler's Bastard: Through Hell and Back in Nazi Germany and Stalin's Russia (Ian Sayer and Douglas Botting)
Eric Pleasants
Manufacturer: Mainstream Publishing
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1840187433
Release Date: 2005-08-16

Customer Reviews:

1 out of 5 stars Self Serving Rubbish.......2006-05-10

Cowardice or courage to stand up for beliefs aside, this is unmitigated rubbish. A puny attempt to re-write negative press against him, it is written is such pathetic self promotion, as to be painful.

His references to him being a "Muscular Englishman" all of 5'3", who seems to have led a life of petty crime across europe. He is obvioulsy trying to write a pornograpic distraction to his utter contempt for his nationality and those who fought nobly on any side.

A pacifist who joined the SS does not make sense. It is infuriating reading, and the preface to works such as the Gulag Archipelago might distract you from reading that worthy tome.

Don't buy this rubbish, don't even bother getting it from the library, it is purile.

5 out of 5 stars Revisionist Review.......2005-11-20

Based on the 1 star rating from a biased reviewer, I ordered, cancelled and reordered Hitler's Bastard. I read the whole book in one setting. It was one of the better books I have read on European WWII in the last 4 decades. Mr. Pleasants was one of those characters in life who was blessed with a guardian angel whether they wanted one or not. He truly had nine lives as the old saying goes. I found his escapades absolutely fascinating. Its true that he was not one to put a lot of effort in morality, in any religious belief or political stance, but Eric Pleasants was above all else, a survivor and always at the expense of someone else. He was full of contrasts; an anti-war pacifist but a Waffen SS member of the British Free Corps,a one time bodyguard to British Royalty and a circus strong man. He was also a thief, a liar and a slave laborer in the Soviet Gulags. He survived it all to live to the ripe old age of 87. This is the first book that I have found that hads given a good description of the Waffen SS unit, British Free Corps and it reveals the shameful collaboration of the British people on Jersy with the occupying Germans, a fact that I am sure many wanted to remain hidden. I do highly recommend this book for its historical imput about some rarely discussed subjects of WWII. It is well written, has a sense of humor and above all smacks of honesty in telling it like it was. Eric Pleasants was a scoundral but one of those rare individuals who manage to make it through the worst of life by wit and force when many others would have long since given up. Read Hitler's Bastard with an open mind. It is a gold mine of information.

1 out of 5 stars Pathetic, sad story of a self-centred traitor.......2004-02-18

This is a book about one mans attempts to sanitize his shady past during World War II. Mr. Pleasants attempts to convince the reader that trying to dodge doing your duty to your nation was a reasonable thing to do. He tries to convince the reader that theft of desperately needed food provisions from other hungry islanders in Nazi-occupied Jersey was the right thing to do. He tries to convince us that fist fights are a reasonable way to gain respect and time in prison was somehow not "fair" for him to have to endure.

The hardest things to swallow are the reasons why he decides to join the British Free Corps of the German SS. There are numerous reasons given as to why he choose to do such a thing, and overall this leaves little doubt about the mans character.

He hides his reasons for theft behind the oft-trotted out excuse that thieves give, which is they "only stole from the rich". Somehow that is supposed to make theft ok. He gives no reasons apart from being self-centered as to why he felt he deserved to eat more than other islanders by stealing from them.

There are limited plus sides to this book. The writing style is fluid and readable, and occasionally the writer actually manages to paint a reasonable picture of an event in ones mind. But that's about it.

Where the book is badly let down is that the writer has made little or no effort to research any of the events with any degree of historic discipline. He appears to have merely reprinted Mr. Pleasants words, thoughts and self-centered opinions verbatim without any attempt to balance the view of Mr. Pleasants or research the events described by him.

The book is entirely one-sided and could do with some substantial revision once research into events has uncovered, clarified, substantiated, or repudiated some of the claims made by Mr. Pleasants. It would appear to be not too much trouble to research the court records of Jersey (for example) as one outside source of (hopefully) unbiased information on his life.

I personally found Mr. Pleasants views on life pathetic and repugnant. Whilst in Jersey he roundly cursed those Islanders who collaborated with the Germans for the benefits that such collaboration bought, yet he utterly fails to realize that by volunteering for the SS he was guilty of exactly the same thing.

Seven years of forced labor in a Russian coal mine was simply not enough.

A Jerseyman.

Hells Of Hitler
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    Hells Of Hitler
    Brigette Seitz
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    ASIN: 1413466168

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    "THE HELLS OF HITLER" is based on the real life story of a girl, named Erika. It tells of the horrors, she and her family endures, after they are caught up in the "Holocaust" your heart will go out to them as they struggle to survive. Episode by Episode, you will cringe, as they are faced with the uncertainty of their destiny as they are moved from one ghetto to another, you will admire this brave, bouncy blonde-green eyed little girl unaware of the predicaments she is in as she defies the Gestapo.

    You will be fascinated by the unique way her Mother maneuvers them around one dilemma after the other. You will be so happy and joyful when the War is over and there are no longer any "Hells of Hitler DEDICATED TO DR. FRANK ROSENBERG

    Through Hell for Hitler
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      Through Hell for Hitler
      Henry Metelmann
      Manufacturer: Spellmount Publishers Ltd
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      ASIN: 1862272085
      Through Hell for Hitler
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        Through Hell for Hitler
        Henry Metelman
        Manufacturer: Patrick Stephens Limited
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        ASIN: B000M013K4
        Hell Bent For War
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          Hell Bent For War
          General Hugh S. Johnson
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          To Hell and Back (Unabridged)
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            To Hell and Back (Unabridged)
            Audie Murphy
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            Mother Teresa Is Not In Heaven And Hitler Is Not In Hell
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              Mother Teresa Is Not In Heaven And Hitler Is Not In Hell
              Robert, R. Richard Sr.
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              ASIN: 1430309245

              Book Description

              This book is written about the many different false doctrines in contemporary Christianity. Contemporary Christianity refers to those who believe that Jesus lived in the beginning of the first century, had an earthly ministry which lasted three and a half years, was crucified by the Romans at the request of His own people; the Hebrews. He died and was buried and three nights and three days later He was raised from the dead just like He said He would be. Many of the contemporary Christian beliefs and practices have their origins in ancient and mid-evil pagan religious practices. Two of the major Christian holidays, Christmas and Easter, originate from there. This book looks at beliefs on the soul, the spirit, heaven and hell, the Devil, and life after death. It compares contemporary Christian belief with what is actually written in the Bible. You will be surprised what Christians say is true and what the Bible actually says!

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