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Some people look at a disabled person and think “The real person is trapped inside that body”, a thought which is based on the Greek idea of the body as a carriage for the soul …
Scripture puts forward the hope that Heaven and earth will be made new (Isa. 65:17, 66:22, Rom. 8:19-21, 2Pet. 3:13, Rev. 21 &22). “The earth will be filled with the glory of the Lord’s “(Num. …
The Bible uses both the Flood in Noah’s day and the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah to illustrate the coming judgment. Jesus said, “For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, …
In thinking about the “second death” consider the following:
Were the Old Testament sacrifices a picture of God’s wrath against sin? And were the sacrifices tormented or killed?
Does the Law reveal God’s standard of justice? There …
The wicked will be raised to face judgement. Daniel says, “Multitudes who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake: some to everlasting life, others to shame and everlasting contempt” (Dan. 12:2). Paul said, …
The fact is that according to Scripture, God alone has immortality as a present possession:
Now to the King, eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God (1Tim. 1:17);
Who alone is immortal, and lives in unapproachable light. (1Tim. …
1. ONLY GOD IS IMMORTAL BY NATURE. IMMORTALITY IS A GIFT OF GOD TO CREATURES.
The Bible affirms that God alone has immortality as a present possession (1Tim. 1:17 c.f. 6:16). The “glory of the immortal …
Recently Glenn Peoples posted a podcast on his blog that basically consists of the paper he presented at our Association Conference in 2007. The podcast can be found at http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/. The entry that contains the …
Aside from an actual encounter with the living and resurrected Christ how can we account for the changed lives of Jesus’ earliest followers? Peter went from publicly denying that he ever even knew Christ to …
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In 1 Corinthians 15 Paul writes of some 500 people who were eyewitnesses of the resurrected Christ (1Cor. 15:3-8). Paul’s seemingly offhand comment is actually a challenge to the skeptic. He says they all saw …
The idea that Christ would rise in a new and totally transformed resurrection body was to the disciples a totally foreign concept. These tough and very down to earth Galilean fishermen had enough trouble believing …
A very familiar passage, Matthew 10:28, says, “Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather, be afraid of the One who can destroy both soul and body …
The idea of resurrection was not unknown in Judaism but for those Jews who believed in the resurrection of the dead – and not all of them did- the resurrection was something that happened for …
Another of the standout features of the Gospel resurrection narratives is the almost obstinate unbelief of the disciples, at least initially. This despite Jesus’ claim that the Jewish Scriptures predicted his resurrection and that Jesus, …
If you are aiming to start a new religion, or revolutionize an old one, you should, as they say, put your best foot forward. One thing the Gospels agree on is that it was a …
The earliest Jewish propaganda alleged to have been used against the up and coming Christian movement actually presupposes that it was widely known that the tomb was empty. In the gospel of Matthew, we find …
The lack of veneration at the tomb of Jesus suggests that Jesus really did rise from the dead.
The veneration of saints is still practiced by the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Roman Catholic Church, and by …
In “The Historicity of the Empty Tomb of Jesus”, Dr. William Lane Craig puts forward the following apologetic in favour of the fact of the empty tomb: “An examination of both Pauline and gospel material …
Oddly enough, I find yourself in screaming agreement with many of my athiest friends on the nature of death and the state of the dead. Where we disagree, perhaps, is on the question of whether or …
Immortality for fallen humanity is an idea so terrible God would not even talk about it.
Sidney Hatch (Daring To Differ: Adventures in Conditional Immortality, Brief Bible Studies, 1991, p. 41) explains: “When He [God] expelled …
