Renaissance Ii: Rebirth in the New Clear Age

The author is a decorated Korean War veteran and a graduate of the University of Wisconsin, having earned a Bachelor of Business Administration degree. He has devoted his career to the insurance industry, serving in administration, marketing, and sales, and is now retired and living on the Blue Ridge Mountains in West Virginia.

Renaissance II represents a synthesis of Christianity; the philosophy of Plato; deism, which holds that God allows us to determine our own destiny without his interference (except for our access to grace), a belief held by Founding Fathers Washington, Jefferson, Madison, and Franklin, and also by Lincoln; and certain discoveries in quantum physics - all of which tend to suggest a rational explanation of human existence and, to a degree, what the spiritual goal of mankind might be.

The author had not seriously explored Plato's philosophy until it was mentioned by a speaker at a business seminar. Because of the intriguing manner in which his teachings on reincarnation had been presented, the author made an effort to determine what the Bible may have revealed regarding this particular subject. The most startling disclosure he found was an emphatic, unqualified, and unambiguous statement by Jesus that John the Baptist was the Old Testament prophet Elijah. In addition, there appeared to be many other indications that tended to support reincarnation - Jesus' prolonged discussion with Nicodemus regarding rebirth, for example. On the other hand, there appeared to be only one contrary indication: the statement that "it is appointed for men to die once," and it is primarily this statement on which Christianity's opposition to reincarnation has been established. (Curiously, however, the first humans were not appointed to die, rather they were endowed with immortality.) Another unusual result was to emerge from this scriptural investigation: the author had c