For we know that if the earthly tent which is our house is torn down, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. For indeed in this house we groan, longing to be clothed with our dwelling from heaven, 2 Corinthians 5:1-2 Earthly tent – Mas. Chagigah…
This world is like an anteroom before the world to come. Prepare yourself in the anteroom so that you may enter the banquet hall. Rabbi Ya’akov, Pirke Avot 4:21 Prepare – “The nature of the afterlife has never been clear in Judaism.”[1] In contrast to the highly developed ideas of the afterlife in Christian literature…
we are of good courage, I say, and prefer rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord. 2 Corinthians 5:8 NASB Absent – Investigating the Greek verb, we come upon a rather interesting remark: “ekdēméō, endēméō. These two terms denote being abroad and staying at home. Not used…
FOR EVERYONE WHO LISTENED TO the discussions recorded in Israel about the afterlife, the influence of the Cult of Souls, Dionysus worship and the development of Christian and Jewish thinking about death and the olam ha’ba, here is the last lecture covering the origins of the popular Greek belief in the eternal soul, life after death and…
“And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.” Matthew 25:46 NASB Eternal life – There is no doubt that Christianity embraces a robust doctrine of the afterlife. In fact, I suspect that if you asked the common believer or non-believer about the most important teaching of the Church, it…
Who knows that the breath of man ascends upward and the breath of the beast descends downward to the earth? Ecclesiastes 3:21 NASB Ascends upward – “Ecclesiastes, alone in the Bible, is aware of the belief that at death the soul goes upward to the heavens, rather than down to Sheol. This idea is not…
