ln His parable of the wheat and the tares, Jesus pictured the future day of judgment as a day of harvest when the crop will be separated...

"The wages of sin is death" (Romans 6:23). There are two ways that the demands of divine justice can be met. As sinners, we can bear the...

“Carol killed herself last week.” Mark stunned me with the news about his ex-wife. “I went to her funeral,” he said. “I felt afraid of...

We can use body, soul, spirit when we are talking about different aspects of life and experience. Physical. Mental. Emotional. But to...

Does the vision of the souls under the altar prove that our souls go to heaven (or elsewhere) when we die? Let’s take a look at...

Did Jesus tell a dying thief that the two of them would be together in Paradise that very day? It seems that one of the two outlaws who...

The gospel is about God's work on behalf of sinners like you and me. He has brought salvation and eternal life within our reach by the...

If you believe that we all have immortal souls that can never die, you may want to publish your own version of the Bible and leave out...

Let's take another look at how the Bible introduces the reality of death into the story of Adam and Eve and Satan's proxy, the serpent....

Maybe this has happened to you. I took the earbuds out of my ears and carefully wound the cord around my fingers. Seven or eight loops...

...is possible only because of the death of Jesus on the cross. Without that, eternal death –everlasting, never-ending oblivion–would be...

The Bible teaches: Man is mortal. He does not have an immortal soul. Death is an unconscious state. God's antidote to death is physical...

Scientists tell us the earth is made of four basic layers: the outer crust, which is relatively thin; the mantle, a solid layer nearly...

Witch of Endor -- divine or demonic? Let’s take a look at the infamous story of the first Israelite king, Saul, and his encounter with the witch of En-dor. The story is one of the primary pillars propping up belief in body-soul dualism and the immortality of the soul. For those who have such a viewpoint, it offers concrete evidence that the dead are not truly dead but are, in fact, alive in spirit form. You can read the whole story for yourself in 1 Samuel 28. Here it is in a

These three words should put to rest all the arguments about whether or not you have an immortal soul. They cut through the myths and...

Let's take a look at the worms and fire Jesus spoke about. According to the King James Version, He referred to these destructive forces...

Eternal Torment doctrine: fallacious propaganda I can’t blame the agnostic for questioning the existence of God; I can’t blame the atheist for rejecting the notion of a Supreme Being. Not in the light of a popular “Christian” view of God. If I thought for a moment that the traditional understanding of God was accurate, I would eliminate the Divinity from my own worldview! Listen carefully and you might hear the churchgoers singing: “What bliss will fill the ransomed souls,Whe

Absent from the body. Present with the Lord? “We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord” (2 Corinthians 5:8 KJV). Many thoughtful Bible readers see this text as evidence that when we die our souls are set free to go into the presence of God. Is that a fair interpretation? On face of it, it seems reasonable. On the other hand, could we be putting too much weight on convenient phraseology? Will this interpretation ho

The story of the rich man and Lazarus (Luke 16) is told as a parable – a simple story that carries a moral or spiritual lesson. The rich...