Life Death and the Resurrection Video #1
September 29, 2009 – 11:04 pm | One Comment

In 1993 Pastor Warren Prestidge made a 6-part video series (now available on DVD) , entitled Life, Death and the Resurrection, which provides thought provoking teaching on these subjects from a biblical (conditional immortality) perspective.
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Life Death and the Resurrection #6
October 28, 2009 – 12:00 pm | 2 Comments
Life Death and the Resurrection #6

Video number six, the final video in the series Life Death and the Resurrection is entitled, ”In the End What?” Here is the outline that goes with the video.
Reading: 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18
“The public are turning to …

Life, Death and the Resurrection #1
September 30, 2009 – 8:44 am | No Comment
Life, Death and the Resurrection #1

LIFE, DEATH AND THE RESURRECTION #1: “TO BE OR NOT TO BE”

The following was the first part of an insert provided with Warren’s videos. It will provide an outline for those who wish to …

Is Death, Death? (Audio)
September 29, 2009 – 12:00 pm | No Comment
Is Death, Death? (Audio)

Hear is the audio of the third in a series of sermons I am preaching at my church (on Conditional Immortality and specifically here, the Biblical view of death). The sermon is entitled, “Is Death …

Is Death, Death?
September 28, 2009 – 9:33 am | No Comment
Is Death, Death?

Notes from the third in a series of sermons I am preaching at my church (audio to follow).
Many people are afraid of death and often times we cover our fear with humour. Woody Allen said, “It’s …

“The Departure of the Soul” A Figure of Speech
September 11, 2009 – 12:00 pm | 3 Comments
“The Departure of the Soul” A Figure of Speech

The Interpreter’s Dictionary of the Bible, in its article on death, states that:
“the ‘departure’ of the nephesh [soul] must be viewed as a figure of speech, for it does not continue to exist independently of …

Ancient Burial Practices by Dale Manor
September 1, 2009 – 11:19 pm | No Comment
Ancient Burial Practices by Dale Manor

I found this on the koinonia blog site.
Dale Manor discusses ancient burial practices as background to the book of Ruth, especially chapter 1.
“The Bible often refers to death as being gathered to one’s people (cf. …

Word Studies in Genesis Chapter II (Part 2)
August 19, 2009 – 12:00 pm | No Comment
Word Studies in Genesis Chapter II (Part 2)

In Brief Bible Studies, Vol. 20, No. 2, pp.19-24, by Sidney A. Hatch.

v.7. “And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and …

The Souls Under The Altar
August 18, 2009 – 3:00 pm | 2 Comments
The Souls Under The Altar

Revelation 6:9-11 & Hebrews 11:4

Many Christians will be familiar with Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, which book contains a graphic account of the persecution of faithful men and women of God down through the centuries. Today Christians are still suffering and dying for their faith, mainly …

Word Studies in Genesis Chapter II (Part 1)
August 18, 2009 – 12:00 pm | 2 Comments
Word Studies in Genesis Chapter II (Part 1)

In Brief Bible Studies, Vol. 20, No. 2, pp.19-24, by Sidney A. Hatch.

v.7. “And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; …

Is Death Better By Far?
August 12, 2009 – 12:23 pm | One Comment
Is Death Better By Far?

Does Paul’s desire “to depart and to be with Christ” show us that the believer goes immediately to “heaven” at death and thus that death is “better by far” than life? No way!
Once again we must ask, …

Conditional Immortality and Natural Immortality Compared (Part 2)
August 11, 2009 – 12:00 pm | 3 Comments
Conditional Immortality and Natural Immortality Compared (Part 2)

From, “What Is Conditional Immortality?” (Miscellaneous Comparisons with the Greek Doctrine of Natural Immortality) by Pastor Sidney A. Hatch, Brief Bible Studies: Vol. 20, No. 2, p.9-18.
Conditional Immortality recognises that only God has immortality (1 …

Conditional Immortality and Natural Immortality Compared (Part 1)
August 10, 2009 – 12:00 pm | No Comment
Conditional Immortality and Natural Immortality Compared (Part 1)

From, “What Is Conditional Immortality?” (Miscellaneous Comparisons with the Greek Doctrine of Natural Immortality) by Pastor Sidney A. Hatch, Brief Bible Studies: Vol. 20, No. 2, p.9-18.
Many times, over the years, I have remarked to …

Answers To “A surprising Quiz” by Edward Fudge
August 8, 2009 – 12:00 pm | One Comment
Answers To “A surprising Quiz” by Edward Fudge

Yesterday I posted Edward Fudge’s  ”Q and A” style summary of what the Bible really says about the end of the wicked. Click here to read the questions. What follows below are the answers – …

A Surprising Quiz by Edward Fudge
August 7, 2009 – 12:00 pm | No Comment
A Surprising Quiz by Edward Fudge

Edward Fudge presents this “Q and A” style summary of what the Bible really says about the end of the wicked.
The Bible warns that those who reject God’s mercy now will face him in judgment …

Destroyed Forever
August 5, 2009 – 12:22 pm | No Comment
Destroyed Forever

In an article entitled Destroyed For Ever: An Examination of the Debates Concerning Annihilation and Conditional Immortality (Themelios, 1996) Tony Gray did an excellent job of summarising recent scholarly debate over conditional immortality.
He concludes “that the …

A Complex and Totally Mortal Monism
July 26, 2009 – 9:14 pm | No Comment

E. Earle Ellis, in “Let the Reader Understand: Temple and Eschatology in Mark,” in Kent E. Browner and Mark W. Elliot, ed. Eschatology in the Bible and Theology: Evangelical Essays at the Dawn of the …

Is Man Immortal?
July 22, 2009 – 1:09 pm | No Comment
Is Man Immortal?

By A.A. Phelps, A.M. Late Free Methodist Minister, U.S.A.
[Bible Standard, No. 2, November, 1877, pp12-14.]
For many years I tenaciously clung to the dogma of natural immortality. At length I so far laid aside my prejudice …

The Body Dies, The Person Dies, Then What?
July 20, 2009 – 12:42 pm | No Comment
The Body Dies, The Person Dies, Then What?

Craig C. Hill, In God’s Time: The Bible and the Future (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Eerdmans, 2002), 5, says “More characteristic of both ancient Judaism and early Christianity is the belief that the person is a psychosomatic …

Immortality of the Soul Rooted in Platonism and Neoplatonism
July 17, 2009 – 11:16 am | No Comment
Immortality of the Soul Rooted in Platonism and Neoplatonism

Donald G. Bloesch, in The Last Things: Resurrection, Judgment, Glory (Downers Grove, Illinois: IVP Academic, 2004), 114, says, “In the history of the church the Christian teaching of the resurrection of the body has again …

Berkouwer on the Intermediate State
July 15, 2009 – 12:00 pm | No Comment
Berkouwer on the Intermediate State

G. C. Berkouwer, in The Return of Christ (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Eerdmans, 1972), p. 51, says: “It should not surprise us that Scripture nowhere gives us a theoretical explication of the intermediate state. The …