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BibleStudents.com
What Say the Scriptures About Hell?
BibleStudents.net
Why Christ Arose From the Dead
Bible Standard (Laymen’s Home Missionary Movement
Many of the links below are to various “questions and answers” pages that include much material on many topics; you may have to search for the exact material on the pages.
Breath of Life (PDF) – Lower animals also are souls * The definition of soul * God is a soul * Examples of use * And man became a living soul * Living souls to be restored * Jesus gave his soul as a ransom.
Poles Apart – Hell and the Love of God (PDF) Does Belief in Hell Promote Faith? * Fear a Poor Substitute for Gratitude * The Nature of God’s Love * Fear is No Friend to Faith * Justice the Foundation of the God’s Throne * How the Ransom Was Paid * Justification by Faith * Hell is Cold – Not Hot * Eternal Punishment vs. Eternal Torment
In Wrath, Remember Mercy (PDF) Love in Control * Wrath versus Eternal Torment * God’s Righteous Wrath * God’s Love Held in Abeyance * Love Added to Justice * God’s Compassion versus God’s Wrath
The High Road to Life The Narrow Way * The High Road * The Broad Road versus the Highway * Adamic Death Destroyed * Restitution a Gradual Work * Two Special Millennial Testings * The Little Season (PDF)
Kept by the Power of God Behold The Man * The Same Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow * The Importance of Identiity * What Does the Bible Say: On life, on death, on the resurrection * God Knows Our Identity * and more.. (PDF)
The Quick and the Dead — 2 Timothy 4:1 (Bible Standard)
Axioms – The Seven That Disprove Torture Theory
Man – “Thou Turnest Man to Destruction; and Sayest, Return, Ye Children of Men” — Psalm 90:3
Mankind – Will They Awaken with Perfect Bodies?
Matthew 22:14 – The Outer Darkness
Matthew 10:28 – “Not Able to Kill the Soul”
“Just” and “Unjust” Resurrected? – Acts 24:15 (PDF file)
After First Resurrection, When Will the Rest of the Dead Live Again? — Revelation 20:4,5.
Salvations – The Heavenly and Earthly
Salvation – To Eternal Life Not Universal
Sin – Will The Curse Of, And Death Ever Be Removed From Mankind?
Is There Hope for the People of Sodom?
Immortal Soul Not Found in Bible
Court Decision Regarding Immortality of Human Soul
The Meaning of “Soul” in Leviticus 17:11
Rachel and the Widow’s Son — Genesis 35:18; 1 Kings 17:21,22
Souls Under the Altar – Revelation 6:9-11
Spirit Beings – “A Spirit Hath Not Flesh and Bones.” — Luke 24:39
Spirit Being and Spirit Bodies
Communications with Spirits Forbidden
Spirit and Material Substances Defined
Spiritism and Occultism – “Try the Spirits” – 1 John 4:1
Stephen’s Vision and Falling Asleep – Acts 7:55,56
Suicides- Is There Any Hope For
Bible Standard Program #1 (Windows Media Player) Includes: Is the soul mortal or immortal?
Bible Standard Program #10 (Windows Media Player) – Includes a series of questions on the soul
Bible Standard Program #12 (Windows Media Plaryer) – Includes: How was paradise lost? Is reincarnation out of harmony with the Bible’s teachings? Why is a judgment day necessary?
Bible Standard Program #15 (Windows Media Player) Includes: Is hell a place of eternal torment? Does the Bible teach that there is a lake of fire and does this mean tht there a hell of eternal torment? Is Judgment day to be feared?
Bible Standard Program #16 (Windows Media Player) Includes: Why did God create man on earth if He intended him to live in heaven? Is there any hope for any of the people of Sodom to gain everlasting life?
Bible Standard Program #17 (Windows Media Player Includes: Will the unsaved dead have a chance to be saved to everlasting life?
Bible Standard Program #22 (Windows Media Player Includes: Where are the dead?
Bible Standard Program #25 (Windows Media Player Includes: Did Jesus really go to hell when he died?
Bible Standard Program #25 (Windows Media Player Includes: Would you comment on the nature of hell?
Bible Standard Program #38 (Windows Media Player Includes: What happened to the two thieves who were crucified with Jesus?
Bible Standard Program #39 (Windows Media Player Includes: Does Matthew 10:28 prove the soul to be a separate entity?
DivinePlan.org
What Say the Scriptures Concerning Spiritism?
A Ray of Hope – Refrain Thy Voice From Weeping and Thine Eyes From Tears
Pastoral Bible Institute (Herald of Christ’s Kingdom)
The Resurrection of the Dead by Robert Davis
What Say the Sriptures About Hell?
The Flame in Hades An examination of the parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus.
If A Man Die, Will He Live Again? (Herald of Christ’s Kingdom)
After Death The Judgment (Herald of Christ’s Kingdom)
Everlasting Punishment (Herald of Christ’s Kingdom)
A Case for the Resurrection of Stillborns (Carl Hagensick)
The Resurrection of the Dead (Herald of Christ’s Kingdom)
Associated Bible Students of Central Ohio
Also includes “If a man die, shall he live again?” and “Churches Reconsider Hell’s Fury”
Faithbuilder’s Fellowship
RESURRECTION: THE BASIS OF HOPE: The Good News of the Resurrection.
WHAT ABOUT HELL?: A brief explanation of sheol, hades, Gehenna, and the hope of the resurrection.
WHEN A MAN DIES: (Faithbuilders Fellowship/True Grace Ministries) The Cause of Death. Is Death Really Death? The Soul That Sins Dies. What Do the Dead Know? Confusion on the meaning of Sheol. All People Go Into Sheol, Hades. Death is death. Death to be Destroyed.
*** in the process of updating items below – February 2, 2006
The Good News of Two Salvations (Herald of Christ’s Kingdom)
Anastasis — Resurrection (Herald of Christ’s Kingdom)
Immortality of the Soul or Resurrection of the Dead? (Herald of Christ’s Kingdom)
Notes on Immortality (Herald of Christ’s Kingdom)
Resurrection Prospects (Herald of Christ’s Kingdom)
WHEN A MAN DIES: (Dawn Bible Students Association) Discusses the condition of the dead in sheol/hades and the hope of the resurrection. Another link to the same booklet:
http://www.dawnbible.com/dies.htm
Links to Authors Not Associated with the Bible Students Movement
Champions of Conditional Immortality in History – Gives quotes of many writers, many of whom are well-known, who denied inherent human immortality.
Near Death Experiences (Ernest L. Martin)
(Fred Pearce – Christadelphian Viewpoint)
The Bible Hell (A Universalist Site) – by J.W. Hanson
What the Hell is Hell Really? While I don’t agree with swearing by hell (hades, pluto), most of the information is good (A Universalist Site)
A Long, But Not Eternal Visit to “Hell” (A Universalist Site) – by Louis Abbott, from his book, An Analytical Study of Words
Oh Hell – Excepting the name of the page (as it is an expression most often used in swearing — Matthew 5:33-37; James 5:12), there are a lot of good links on the page.
Page partially updated April 30, 2008.