The Nature of Man and Death
VERLE STREIFLING, PhD | Minister, Author, And Missionary In her Dec 12 1844 vision, Ellen White records Jesus and her ‘winging our way upward’ in heaven, and “here we saw […]
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Category: State of the Dead
August 24–30, 2024
Lesson 9: “Jerusalem Controversies” COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Life Assurance Ministries Problems with this lesson: More and more these lessons reveal Adventism’s downplaying of the eternal, divine authority of the Lord Jesus […]
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Facing Death
ASK THE PASTOR WITH DALE RATZLAFF | Pastor and Founder, Life Assurance Ministries (1936–2024) Pastor Ratzlaff, don’t you ever worry about whether you are saved? You are not a young man anymore—don’t you […]
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June 1–7, 2024
Lesson 10: “Spiritualism Exposed” COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Life Assurance Ministries Problems with this lesson: This week’s lesson is consummate deception as it mocks the biblical teaching about the nature of man […]
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5. Lost Souls Get Bodies For Eternal Punishment
JEREMY GRAHAM | 5. The Bible teaches that the spirits/souls of unsaved people will also return to their bodies and they will be resurrected and be punished eternally. 1 Kings […]
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4. Saved Souls Get Bodies at the Resurrection
JEREMY GRAHAM | 4. The Bible teaches that the spirits/souls of saved people will return to their bodies and they will be resurrected and be with the Lord Jesus forever. 1 […]
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3. Unsaved Souls Are Conscious After Death
JEREMY GRAHAM | 3. The Bible also teaches that the spirits/souls of unsaved people continue in conscious existence after physical death. 1 Samuel 28:3, 7-20: “Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel […]
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2. The Human Soul Survives Death
JEREMY GRAHAM | 2. The Bible does teach that the spirits/souls of saved people continue in conscious existence after physical death. Genesis 25:8-10: “Abraham breathed his last and died in a […]
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1. Created In the Image of God Includes a Spirit
JEREMY GRAHAM | 1. Man was created in the image of God with an immaterial spirit/soul (within the material body). Genesis 1:27: “God created [Heb. “bara”] man in His own image, in […]
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You Will Never Die
MARTIN CAREY | What do you believe happens to us when we die? As Adventists we had strong opinions and were very sure of the answer. Our doctrines of death […]
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What the Bible Teaches About Spirits, Death, and Hell
JEREMY GRAHAM Following is a comprehensive list of Bible passages that show what the Bible says concerning each of these six points: 1. Man was created in the image of […]
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Jesus Claims the Keys
MARTIN CAREY On one fateful afternoon of darkness, three men hung on their crosses, waiting for the end. That afternoon marked not only the end of their lives; but also […]
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9. The Clear Word on Death and the Afterlife
STEPHEN PITCHER Within Adventism death and the afterlife are explained in one way: the dead, both the saved and the unsaved, remain in an unconscious state from the moment of […]
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Adventism’s Death Doctrine: Gospel or Deception
BY RICHARD FOSTER I remember when my wife and I were making our exit from Adventist theology, we were hearing talk of humans having souls or spirits that existed consciously […]
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28. Death and Resurrection Assumes Man is Physical
ADVENTISM’S FUNDAMENTAL BELIEF #26—The wages of sin is death. But God, who alone is immortal, will grant eternal life to His redeemed. Until that day death is an unconscious state […]
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