Conditional Immortality, Soul Sleep and Annihilationism
Resurrection in the Epistles- Part 1 General Resurrection We find God described in Rom. 4:17 as “God, who quickeneth the dead” or as the N.I.V. translates it, “the God who gives life to the dead”. The New Bible Commentary says, “God’s life-giving power is seen in the miracle of Abraham’s procreation of Isaac (19; cf. [...]
David Burge has been Editor of From Death to Life for around 6 years, but he has been President of the Conditional Immortality Association of NZ for much longer still, since at least 1997. This in itself tells us a lot about David. He was a genuine leader, a gifted, enterprising, focused and humble person [...]
The text of an address given at the Conditional Immortality Conference, June 21 1997 Reclaiming the Gospel Part One: The Human Condition “Reclaiming the Gospel”. I hope you groaned a bit when you saw the title of this address. I hope you felt some resistance to it. There are far too many people these days [...]
Part one is here If God endlessly torments the unsaved this raises many problems:- The tormenting by God is worse then the German holocaust whose victims’ torments had an ending. Many reject Christ because they cannot believe in a God who asks us to be kind, but is himself worse than Hitler. Many in Bible-believing [...]
Matthew’s account of the death of Jesus is peculiar in that it alone records the opening of the graves at Christ’s death and the raising of many sleeping saints along with the Lord at his resurrection ( Matthew 27:50-54). The raising of certain dead ones is given as one of three happenings that follow the [...]
The men who led the church after the apostles died. They are called the Early Church Fathers. Some of them overlapped the apostles and, of course, learned their theology from them and from their writings, which were later collected into one volume under the title “The New Testament”. The writings of the Early Church Fathers [...]
Where is hell? The most popular suggestion is that it is at the centre of the earth. (It certainly is hot down there). According to wikipedia: It’s in Norway. Hell is a village in Stjørdal, Norway with a population of 352. It has become a minor tourist attraction because of its name, since people like [...]
Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set [...]
Joel B. Green (PhD, University of Aberdeen) is now professor of New Testament interpretation at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California, after teaching at Asbury Theological Seminary for ten years, serving as vice president of academic affairs and provost. He is the author and / or editor of a number of books, including Dictionary of [...]
The Resurrection in Acts —Part 2 Resurrection of Jesus (cont.) Peter, was hauled in front of the Council, to give account to for the miracle of making the lame man walk. He told them it had been done by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Again, he accused them of having crucified Him, but [...]
Here is the video from last year's conference. The transcript is here: Tracing the Road to Gehenna We should be videoing this year's conference … [Read More...]
