The Old Testament celebrates life. Life is an unqualified good, a gift from God ( Gen 2:7). Wisdom holds in her left hand wealth and honour, but in her right hand long life ( Proverbs …

{from Death to Life Issue 18 October 2000}
Does God lie? No!
Does the Bible lie? No!
Does Satan lie? Yes!
He was a liar from the beginning. Jesus told the Pharisees, “You belong to your father, the devil, …

{From “From Death To Life” Issue 18}
Two Views of Hell: A Biblical and Theological Dialogue
By Edward William Fudge and Robert A. Peterson.
Reviewed by Carl Josephson
This book was published by InterVarsity Press this year not long …

Who are the “spirits in prison” to whom Christ preached? (1Pet. 3:18-20).
This passage links up with 2Pet. 2:4 and Jude 6. Note the following:
1. Human beings are never referred to in the Bible as “spirits” …

Do not Paul’s words, “absent from the body present with the Lord” and “to depart and to be with Christ; which is far better” show that the believer goes immediately to heaven at death?
The only …

What does Saul’s visit to the witch at Endor teach us about the state of the dead? (1 Samuel 28:1-20, 1 Chronicles 10:13, 14).
King Saul, rejected by God, asked a “medium” to raise up the …

Does Isaiah’s “taunt” against the King of Babylon imply that the souls of the departed are conscious in Sheol?
Isaiah’s “taunt” against the King of Babylon (Isa. 14:3-23) uses pictorial language to describe God’s judgment upon …