One of the most crucial issues which determines our understanding of what the Bible teaches about death and the afterlife is the proper interpretation of such key terms as Sheol, Hades and Gehenna. No study of death is complete without a thorough understanding of these terms.
SHEOL
The Hebrew word Sheol is found 66 times in the [...]

This article is an excerpt of Studies in the Atonement
I. The doctrine of the atonement is exclusively a subject of special revelation and thus we are entirely dependent upon the Scriptures.
Christianity is unique and singular in its concept of the atonement. We will search history in vain to find another religion which developed the concept [...]

The following is a summary of some of the questions which have been posed to us. They represent the sincere questions of people who come from a humanistic or religious pacifist background.
Honest questions deserve an honest answer. Therefore, we will attempt to answer them without offending anyone. Given the emotional nature of some of the [...]

The early church’s beliefs about war have become a source of heated debate. Pacifists have dogmatically stated that all the Christian leaders before Constantine rejected war as immoral and renounced the military as an occupation for any Christian. For example, Roland Bainton in Christian Attitudes Toward War and Peace stated, “All of the outstanding writers [...]

It would be difficult to overstate the importance of the Gospels. In the pages of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John we find the matchless words and life of the Lord Jesus. No literature, ancient or modern, can ever excel the beauty and depth of the words of Jesus, who spoke as no other man has [...]

The God who has revealed Himself in Scripture tells us that He is going to be “incomprehensible” to us. But does this mean that God is going to be irrational or illogical? No. It means that God is beyond man’s capacity to understand or explain exhaustively. In this sense, God is beyond human reason and [...]

What is truly wonderful is that Scripture not only teaches us that God has attributes, but it also tells us where to begin. The very first thing that God wants us to understand about Himself is that He is the Creator of heaven and earth. Thus the very first attribute is that God is the [...]

In Christian theology, God is a theological “Given” who has revealed Himself in Scripture. Thus we are not free to “pick and choose” among the attributes of God as if we were in an ice cream parlor. What God is like in His nature and attributes is not left to our personal tastes.
Humanistic thinkers assume [...]