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Does Our Belief About the Ultimate End of the Unredeemed Really Matter?

by Doug Smith of Afterlife.co.nz

There are many important issues that Bible-believing Christians may emphasize, including evangelism, missions, serving the needy, political involvement, societal problems, economic challenges, and moral decay. With all of these competing interests, why should we spend time trying t...

Our ancestors’ rebellion in Eden has changed humanity from what God originally intended. Because of that rebellion, humanity has inherited a sinful inclination that devastates all our attempts at being good and doing good things. We are tainted with evil, depraved to the core. ...

Our Need as Sinners Met in the Gift of God

By W. Laing

From pages 93-95 of Bible Standard September 1878

In the first eight chapters of Paul’s letter to the saints at Rome, you will find a very comprehensive deliverance on this important subject. In most emphatic terms he describes the guilty condit...

Immortality: The Gift of God Through Faith in Jesus Christ

By W. Laing.

From Bible Standard August 1878 pg 81-84

THE declaration that “God created man in His own image, “ is frequently regarded and urged as an intimation that man was created immortal. The argument stands thus: God...

Words of Comfort

by Geo A Brown

from pg 77 Bible Standard July 1878

“Wherefore comfort one another with these words.” 1 Thess. iv. 18.

THE last enemy, death, which is to be destroyed at the judgment day is ever busy in his sphere of desolating the happy homes of lovin...

The Saints’ Inheritance

Republished with permission from Afterlife.co.nz from pg 80 The Bible Standard July 1878

THE Apostle says, “Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither hath it entered into the...

Away From the Body

by Jefferson Vann

2 Corinthians 5:1-10 ESV: 1 For we know that if the tent, which is our earthly home, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. 2 For in this tent we groan, longing to put on our heavenly dwelling, 3 if indeed by putting it on we may not be found naked. 4 For while we are still in ...

The Spirits in Prison

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Who are the “spirits in prison” to whom Christ preached? (1Pet. 3:18-20).

Th...

The Witch at Endor

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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,...

The Thief on the Cross

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Do Christ’s words to the penitent thief imply that he went to “heaven” the very day of h...

Absent From the Body to Be With Christ?

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Do not Paul’s words, “absent from the body present with the Lord” and “to depart...

The Dead Know Nothing

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A TV Review (Who reads TV Reviews?) said: “Save for the quirky Pushing Daisies, in which a man brings the d...

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 in hell” (NIV). This text i...

On The Intermediate State of the Dead

Bible Standard, No. 1, October, 1877, pp 3-5

Bible Standard, No. 2, November, 1877, pp 9-11

Minor alterations added

"The doctrine of the immortality of the soul, and the name, are alike unknown to the entire Bible." -Dr....

Plato versus Christ

by Sidney Hatch

Brief Bible Studies, Vol. 21, No.1, p. 21.

“The Son quickeneth whom he will.” - John 5:21

The Greek philosopher Plato has been called “the prophet of the doctrine of immortality.” By this, of course, is meant the immortality of a human soul.

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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 as to give the whole subject a thorough investigation. I became intensely in earnest ...

Immortality and the City Temple

Extracts from a Discourse by Joseph Parker, D.D

Bible Standard, No. 2, November, 1877, pp14-15.

London boasts many able preachers, and among their number Joseph Parker, D.D., now of the City Temple, holds a conspicuous place. This gentleman long ago identified himself with those who believe...

Conditional Immortality and Natural Immortality Compared

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 people that I bel...

Is Death Better by Far?

First published in “From Death To Life”, Issue 27, p3

Once again we must ask, on the subject of the afterlife, why was it that the only comfort Paul offered the Thessalonian Church was that the dead in Christ would be resurrected when Jesus comes again? (1Thess. 4:13-18). Likewise, in 1 Corinthians 15, ...

The Souls Under the Altar

First published in “From Death To Life”, Issue 31, September 2006, pp. 4-5

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 among Muslim an...