Review article

Death: Origin, Nature, and Final Eradication

Niels-Eric A. Andreasen ; Andrews University, Berrien Springs, Michigan, SAD

Abstract

Death is ever with us, regardless of age, position, or financial situation. Whatever at tempts are made to dress it in acceptable garb, death remains our ultimate—and currently invincible—enemy. Despite flowers and speeches, death is an ugly spectre lurking in everyone’s experience. Furthermore, it is not only
ubiquitous and repulsive but also incomprehensible.
In different times and places death and what ensues have been explained in diverse manners, yet there is no clear answer to the problem of death except in the Scriptures. Indeed, even those who take the Bible seriously oft en misunderstand its teaching on this topic.
This article considers the biblical teaching on death: what it means, where it came from, what happens to those who die, and finally, how death will be eradicated. Seen from this biblical perspective, death, loathsome as it may be, loses its stranglehold on human existence. Paul put it well: “Death is swallowed up in victory” (1 Cor. 15:54).

Keywords

Death; Occultism; Spiritizm; Resurrection

Hrčak ID:

99741

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/99741

Publication date:

10.12.2001.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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