"When faced with the issue of life after death, we are con fronted with the greatest riddle human existence can offer. If we fail to solve this riddle, it promises to destroy us."

Reincarnation and resurrection two fundamental views of the afterlife. Today they compete in the minds of thinking people worldwide as possible answers to that great riddle of life after death.

What is the difference between reincarnation and resurrection?

Can a Christian believe in both?

In a systematic, biblically-based argument, John Snyder shows the vast difference between reincarnation and resurrec- tion and the two radically opposing philosophies they represent. One view confirms all that Christians believe; the other denies the very foundation on which Christianity is built.

Reincarnation vs. resurrection. If a wrong view of life and death becomes widely accepted, the end product will be a complete revolution of political thought, social policy, and legal reform.

We must stand on one side of the issue or the other-the view that predominates will help determine history for us all. And the view you choose will help determine the course of your life both before and after death.

John Snyder (A.B., Southern California College: M. Die, Th.M., Princeton Theological Seminary) is a doctoral candidate at the University of Basel, Switzerland.