Paul, Hosea and the Messiah

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?”  1 Corinthians 15:55 NASB Death – thanatos. The end. Dead. Finished. Qohelet is right. Without a resurrection, the rabbis provide a stark assessment: “We know nothing about death, nothing beyond the one fact that we shall ‘die’—but what is that, to die? We do not…

Eternal Consequences

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

“O Death, where is your victory?  O Death, where is your sting?” 1 Corinthians 15:55 from Hosea 13:14 Death – The Bible often seems to personify death.  Perhaps that’s because the Bible doesn’t conceive of death as simply a biological phenomenon.  Living things die.  Their biological functions stop.  But when it comes to human beings,…