Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 10101. The intermediate state is the condition of a person between the moment of death and the resurrection of the body, and Scripture presents it as conscious, personal and, for the believer, immediately in the presence of the Lord. It is called intermediate because it is temporary. It is not the end of the…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 6003. The consequences of sin reach further than most people ever suspect, and understanding them is essential if we are to grasp what the Lord Jesus actually accomplished on the cross. God warned Adam plainly: “in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die” (Genesis 2:17). Adam ate, and did not…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 3025. Jesus’ descent into Hades is a phrase drawn from the historic creeds, and it has confused almost as many Christians as it has clarified, because the words can sound as though Jesus spent three days suffering in hell. Scripture actually paints a rather different and far more comforting picture of what happened to…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 4187. There is no hour in which the ministry of the Spirit is more precious than the last, and to ask how He will comfort a dying believer is to ask about the place where all our theology is finally tested. I have sat at many bedsides, holding the hand of a brother or…