Salvation & the Second Death, Part 1, episode 14 in the series 'Salvation'

What is the “second death,” and why does the communion service speak of Christ’s body and blood as preserving the life of the soul? In this first part of the season’s closing conversation, Jonah and Patrick explore the soul’s entanglement with death, the images of Babylon and the New Jerusalem in Revelation, and communion as the gift of Christ’s own death-and-resurrection life. Salvation is not simply moral imitation, but receiving the healing and strength we cannot manufacture for ourselves....