Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 10103 Soul sleep is the belief that when people die, their souls enter an unconscious state until the resurrection. According to this view, the dead—whether believer or unbeliever—know nothing, experience nothing, and are essentially “asleep” until God raises them at the end of the age. This teaching is held by certain groups including Seventh-day…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 01154 The wisdom books of the Old Testament — Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes — sit at an oblique angle to the great redemptive events of Scripture. There is no exodus here, no covenant ceremony, no prophetic oracle pointing to the coming Servant. These books engage the texture of human existence in a world where…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 5024 Something notable happens when the biblical story of humanity begins. Before the breath, before the garden, before the command, there is the ground. “The LORD God formed the man of dust from the ground” (Genesis 2:7). The word translated “dust” is the Hebrew ʿaphar, referring to dry earth, loose soil, the fine powdery…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 5025 There is a single verse in Genesis that contains one of the most remarkable statements in all of Scripture about what human beings are. “Then the LORD God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature” (Genesis…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 05038 No question matters more than this one. Every person, at some point, has looked at their own existence and wondered what it is for. Philosophy, religion, popular culture, and personal experience all offer answers – and they differ wildly. Scripture addresses the question with both directness and depth. The Question Every Person Asks…