Life and death

• Life
• Death
• Biblical answers to our questions

What is the truth about death?

• Africans and the ancestors
• Non-Christian world religions
• The Christian majority view
• Do we have an immortal soul?
• Man became a ‘living soul’
• What, then, happens at death?

APPENDIX

• Luke 23:39-43
• Luke 16:19-31
• Hebrews 12:22-24
• Revelation 6:9
• 2 Corinthians 5:1-10

Can we communicate with the dead?

• Near-death experiences (NDE)
• How do we explain this?
• The spirit world
• ‘Pray for us sinners . . .’

He is risen

• The last week
• The Easter story
• Alternative explanations
• Did it really happen?
• What kind of history?
• A unique event
• Checking the facts
• The ‘mother of all facts’
• Appearances
• Christ’s ‘incorruptible’ body
• Do we have enough evidence?

Our resurrection

• The biblical data
• The Old Testament
• The New Testament: Paul
• The letters to the Corinthians
• Other New Testament writings
• Identity: Will we be what we are now?
• The ‘spiritual’ body

APPENDIX

• The thousand years
• At the beginning
• During the thousand years
• At the end
• But why?
• Christians and cremation

Living in the face of death

• How we view death
• Dealing with death
• Ageing gracefully
• Do not postpone
• Living with hope

Eternal life: heaven and the new earth

• Eternity in two stages
• Heaven – a place or a state of being?
• Pictures of heaven
• And more pictures of heaven
• Eternal bliss: questions
• Eternal bliss: some preliminary ideas
• Symbols with meaning
• ‘I make all things new’

Is ‘hell’ as terrible as people think?

• What is hell like?
• Judgement by a God of love
• The biblical data
• Hades
• Tartarus
• Gehenna
• What is ‘unquenchable fire’?
• A few loose ends
• Jesus’ descent into hell
• What about purgatory?
• The good news

Being sure

• Few or many?
• Children of God
• A small remnant or a great multitude?
• The promise of a ‘remnant’
• Saved and safe