When I was fourteen years old, I went with some family friends to slaughter chickens. It was my first time partaking of any farm practices, and as a girl who grew up watching Emergency Vets while eating scrambled eggs, the gore factor didn’t bother me much. But there...
The Bible says that when you die, you are dead in every sense of the word. It says: You have no consciousness of being alive (Eccl 9:10).Man can’t save himself from death (Ps. 89:48).Our only deliverance from death is resurrection (John 5:28, 29). Although the...
The Bible doesn’t prohibit the practice of cremation. History has demonstrated that the handling of the deceased body has varied from culture to culture over time. The methods also vary—from embalming by the early Egyptians, to immediate burial which was the custom of...
Insight into Acts 2:27 “…because you will not abandon my soul to the grave…” The Greek word translated “grave” is hadēs. Hades was the Greek word used to represent the Hebrew word sheol, which was the state of being dead. When the Hebrew Old Testament was translated...
