State of the Dead – Proclamation! Online Magazine

Bible Passage Adventism Really Doesn’t Like

May 1, 2025 Richard Foster Doctrine, Feature, Richard Foster, State of the Dead

RICHARD FOSTER | Contributor “There was a certain rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and fared sumptuously every day. But there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, full […]

Paul and the Afterlife in 2 Corinthians

February 6, 2025 Dale Ratzlaff 2001-3 Proclamation!, Dale Ratzlaff, State of the Dead

Confronting a Passage I Used To Run From: 2 Corinthians 5:1–9 DALE RATZLAFF | Pastor and Founder, Life Assurance Ministries (1936–2024) When I was Seventh-day Adventist pastor and Bible teacher and had […]

The Nature of Man and Death

October 3, 2024 Proclamation! 2001-3 Proclamation!, Adventist Doctrines, Doctrine, Feature, Proclamation! Magazine Archive, State of the Dead

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 […]

August 24–30, 2024

August 22, 2024 Colleen Tinker Adventist Doctrines, Colleen Tinker, Feature, Sabbath School Commentary, State of the Dead

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 […]

Facing Death

May 30, 2024 Dale Ratzlaff 2011-3 Proclamation!, Dale Ratzlaff, Doctrine, Feature, Man's Nature, State of the Dead

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 […]

June 1–7, 2024

May 30, 2024 Colleen Tinker Colleen Tinker, Feature, Sabbath School Commentary, State of the Dead

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 […]

5. Lost Souls Get Bodies For Eternal Punishment

April 11, 2024 Guest Bible Studies, Doctrine, Feature, Jeremy Graham, State of the Dead

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 […]

4. Saved Souls Get Bodies at the Resurrection

April 4, 2024 Guest Bible Studies, Doctrine, Feature, Jeremy Graham, State of the Dead

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 […]

3. Unsaved Souls Are Conscious After Death

March 28, 2024 Guest Bible Studies, Doctrine, Feature, Jeremy Graham, State of the Dead

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 […]

2. The Human Soul Survives Death

March 21, 2024 Guest Bible Studies, Doctrine, Feature, Jeremy Graham, State of the Dead

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 […]

1. Created In the Image of God Includes a Spirit

March 14, 2024 Guest Bible Studies, Doctrine, Feature, Jeremy Graham, State of the Dead

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 […]

You Will Never Die

February 22, 2024 Martin Carey Adventist Doctrines, Doctrine, Feature, Martin Carey, State of the Dead

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 […]

What the Bible Teaches About Spirits, Death, and Hell

January 20, 2024 Guest Adventist Doctrines, Hell, Jeremy Graham, Man's Nature, State of the Dead

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 […]

Jesus Claims the Keys

October 12, 2023 Martin Carey Doctrine, Feature, Martin Carey, State of the Dead

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 […]

9. The Clear Word on Death and the Afterlife

October 5, 2023 Stephen Pitcher Adventism's The Clear Word Analyzed, Books, Feature, State of the Dead, Stephen Pitcher

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 […]