So Samuel was faced with a dilemma. Let's say he could capture William Longmont and imprison him. All William would have to do was find some way to commit suicide and then he'd be free. And William Longmont was the type of man who'd find a way to commit suicide.

Samuel sent an e-mail to his friend Bote Chris Van Heerden the pastor who was formerly an operative in South African intelligence explaining his dilemma. Chris sent back an e-mail saying he'd think it over.

Hm. This was a complex problem. William Longmont the former Roman centurion Longinus whose spear had pierced the side of Christ. A man who could not die until Christ's Return. His body could be killed. But a new one would instantly be created for him.

And now Longmont was a convert to the most extreme form of Islam- apocalyptic Wahhabism within Sunni Islam. Although Longmont's Wahhabi views were quite similar with those of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad a member of the so-called Twelver sect within Shi'ite Islam. The Twelver Sect believed in the imminent return of the 12th Imam- known as the Imam Madhi- the Islamic messianic style figure who'd return at the end of the world according to Islamic beliefs.

Longmont believed in the imminent coming of the Mahdi. And it was his mission to slay unbelievers to prepare the way for the coming of the Mahdi.

That was why Longmont had been Mohammed Atta's co-pilot on American Airlines Flight 11 which crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center on September 11th at 8:46 AM.

After the crash which had physically killed both Longmont and Samuel, the two wandering souls were sent into new bodies.

Longmont must be stopped. He was now a devout fanatical Muslim who would kill and kill again to bring about the return of the Mahdi.

How ironic that the man whose spear had pierced the side of Christ was now a Muslim. Ironic and yet somehow appropriate.

For no religion in the world had probably done more to pierce the side of Christ throughout the centuries than Islam. Islam had denied Christ's divinity and had turned the God-Man (the Incarnation of the Second Person of the Holy Trinity) into a mere Prophet- a prophet who was lesser than Mohammed.

Of course the Deists and Unitarians of the Enlightenment felt the same way about Christ. And in the late 20th Century, many Episcopalian and Anglican clergy and even some Methodists and even the odd Baptist felt the same way about Christ.

As Saint John the Apostle had written in Greek, he who denied that Jesus was the Divine Christ of the Godhead incarnate in the flesh was of the spirit of Antichrist.

Bote Chris Van Heerden decided to take a woman friend of his out to dinner. Her name was Selene Kao, a lovely Chinese-American woman from Pasadena, California. He had met her on the Net. Although it wasn't what one might think by that expression. For it wasn't in a chat room or a dating service but a blogging site where both wrote blogs that they had met.

Bote Chris Van Heerden happened to be in Los Angeles attending a World Evangelism Conference when he received the e-mail from Samuel. He knew that a dinner and a glass of wine in the presence of a beautiful woman would clear his mind and set his thoughts straight.

For Chris was always thinking. Sometimes he thought too much.

And too much thinking left little room for real genuine inspiration.

Part II Samuel's Dilemma

Bote Chris Van Heerden had enjoyed his dinner immensely. Selena Kao had worn a lovely black evening gown and looked exquisitely feminine and radiantly beautiful. They had dined on shrimp, potato soup, lobster and a steak marinated in red wine and then had lime sherbert for dessert. They had then gone to a nearby Latin nightclub where they had salsa danced the night away.

Selene had thanked Chris for a lovely evening when he drove her back to her home in Pasadena. They kissed goodnight. And then Selena skipped up the steps to her front door.

Chris drove back to his hotel in Los Angeles.

When he opened the door of Room 453, he thought back to Samuel's dilemma. And the man who couldn't die. William Longmont- a fanatical devotee of an Islamic sect that believed in the imminent coming of the Imam Mahdi.

A man who could escape any form of imprisonment simply by committing suicide.

As Bote Chris Van Heerden opened the door, the name of another man came to him. The name of Dr. Oscar Penforest.

Samuel's Dilemma Part 3

Dr. Oscar Penforest had been born in Seattle, Washington. But he had been raised in Great Falls, Montana. He studied medicine at John Hopkins University in New York. When he was 24, he won a Rhodes scholarship to study at Oxford University. He graduated with an MA (Oxon.) in Psychology.

Dr. Penforest went to Germany and Switzerland where he further studied in psychiatry. He then went to the Montreal Neurological Institute where he studied neurosurgery.

Thus Dr. Oscar Penforest had a double specialty- psychiatry and neurosurgery. Dr. Penforest practised and taught both subjects at McGill University Medical School in Montreal.

His area of specialty was memory and memories. Surgically speaking, he worked with the temporal lobes in the brain- the areas of the brain that controlled memory and memories.

But Dr. Penforest was also a devout believer in the existence of the soul. And had longed to find empirically the point at which mind and brain intersected- the mind- that mental faculty of the soul- and the brain- that mental faculty of the body.

If there was any man who could deal with the likes of William Longmont, it was Dr. Oscar Penforest.

For Bote Chris Van Heerden had come to the conclusion that the only way to imprison Longmont and prevent him from committing suicide was to remove Longmont's memory- the memory of his long 2000-year-old past.

And Dr. Oscar Penforest was just the man to do it.