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What's the Truth About Eternity?The afterlife seems like the great unknown. Human imagination and Hollywood have come up with many speculations about what lies beyond. How can we set aside the misconceptions and find the truth? What are the straightforward, biblical answers everyone needs to know about heaven, hell, and the afterlife? Mike Fabarez examines 10 faulty beliefs that are surprisingly widespreadand look to God's Word alone for the facts. You will find the truth about common misperceptions likeWhen I die, I'll go to sleep until the resurrection On my way to heaven I'll have to put in some time in purgatory Heaven will be boring with very little to do You don't need to guess about the futureGod's Word is ready to inform your mind and settle your heart. Let this book guide you toward a deeper joy, faith, and understanding of eternity.

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Publié par	Harvest House Publishers
Date de parution	07 août 2018
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780736973021
Langue	English

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HARVEST HOUSE PUBLISHERS
EUGENE, OREGON
All Scripture quotations are from The ESV Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version ), copyright 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
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10 Mistakes People Make About Heaven, Hell, and the Afterlife
Copyright 2018 Mike Fabarez
Published by Harvest House Publishers
Eugene, Oregon 97408
www.harvesthousepublishers.com
ISBN 978-0-7369-7301-4 (pbk.)
ISBN 978-0-7369-7302-1 (eBook)
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Fabarez, Michael, 1964- author.
Title: 10 mistakes people make about heaven, hell, and the afterlife / Mike Fabarez.
Other titles: Ten mistakes people make about heaven, hell, and the afterlife
Description: Eugene, Oregon : Harvest House Publishers, 2018. | Includes bibliographical references.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018000689 (print) | LCCN 2018006024 (ebook) | ISBN 9780736973021 (ebook) | ISBN 9780736973014 (pbk.)
Subjects: LCSH: Future life-Christianity. | Heaven-Christianity. | Hell-Christianity.
Classification: LCC BT903 (ebook) | LCC BT903 .F33 2018 (print) | DDC 236/.2-dc23
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Contents
What Lies Beyond the Grave?
1. All Roads Lead to Heaven
2. When I Die I ll Go to Sleep Until the Resurrection
3. On My Way to Heaven I ll Have to Put in Some Time in Purgatory
4. Heaven Is Filled with See-Through Bodies and Cotton-Ball Clouds
5. Heaven Is Filled with Tract Homes and Government-Issued Uniforms
6. I m Afraid I Might Sin My Way Out of Heaven
7. There Is No Hell
8. Hell s Going to Be One Big Party with My Friends
9. Hell Is the Exact Same Terrible Experience for Everyone
10. It Doesn t Matter What Happens to My Body After I Die
Appendix: Becoming a Christian
Notes
Also by Mike Fabarez
About the Publisher
What Lies Beyond the Grave?
I t didn t require a thoughtful theologian to famously observe that the statistics on death are quite impressive; one out of one people die. 1 Sadly, this is the inescapable and universal human problem. Everyone knows it. Everyone at some point feels the weight of it. And most of us, if we are honest, would love to do something to avoid its encroaching reality.
Speaking of nontheologians, it was Woody Allen, the wry comedian, who said, I don t want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying. 2 But of course the odds are clearly not in his favor. He must face the prospect of his own mortality, as did his parents and grandparents, and every other generation that has ever come before him.
The dread of leaving the familiarity of this life for thought of what lies beyond led Shakespeare to pen the famous words of Hamlet s pensive soliloquy:
To be or not to be: that is the question To die; to sleep; To sleep? perchance to dream. Ay, there s the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come when we have shuffled off this mortal coil, must give us pause. 3
To say death gives the average person pause is to put it lightly- panic might be a better word. It is fair to say that people are generally fearful when forced to consider their own passing. The Bible goes so far as to say that death is the king of terrors (Job 18:14), to which the famous preacher Charles Spurgeon commented, and the terror of kings! -which aptly reminds us that no matter who you might be, death makes no exceptions for the rich and famous.
Christianity, however, claims to have the answer to this world-wide problem. The message of Jesus, with the empty tomb as its centerpiece, is presented to a dying world. You may be tempted to think that the cross of Christ is the focal point of Christian preaching, but were you to examine the biblical record of that first generation of New Testament evangelists, you would find more time spent emphasizing Christ s resurrection from the dead, over and above any other feature of Jesus s ministry. That is not to take anything away from the profound importance of Jesus s death on the cross. Were Christ not to have suffered and died to absorb the penalty of our sinful deeds, the Bible tells us, there would be no hope for fallen people to have acceptance before God. On the other hand, to quote God s word directly: If Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins (1 Corinthians 15:17).
There would be no assurance, confidence, or reason to trust in the fact that Jesus s substitution for us was adequate or acceptable were it not for a verifiable victory over the grave. In other words, if the wages of sin is death (both relationally and biologically), as the Bible says, and if Jesus came to once-and-for-all deal with that sin problem by his substitutionary death, then we would rightly expect a confirmation that the death problem has been overcome as well.
You can sense the apostle Paul s elation and relief when he says that the first coming of Christ has in effect abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel (2 Timothy 1:10). The writer of Hebrews rejoices that the divine Jesus took on the fullness of human nature so that he might deliver all those who through fear of death were subject to lifelong slavery (Hebrews 2:15). For the Christian, all the sweeping effects of death-the pain, the loss, the separation-have been transformed from permanent calamities to temporary inconveniences.
This perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality. When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting? The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ (1 Corinthians 15:53-57).
A SEA OF OPINION
Given the universality of the problem of death, it shouldn t surprise us that there are a variety of solutions suggested by the vast number of people longing for a remedy. Christianity lays out a logical and systematic explanation for why death exists in the first place, the manner in which God repeatedly promised to rescue us from this predicament, what exactly God did to accomplish the fix through the coming of Jesus, and how we are to go about appropriating the benefits of Christ s work. All of this is derived from data found in the Bible. And for millions of people through the centuries, this was the first place they would think to go to learn of answers to questions regarding life and death, and heaven and hell. But times are changing.
In the secularized culture of today s Western nations, the Bible is increasingly neglected as a source of truth. The problem of death remains, the quest for answers is largely unabated, but the Bible as a book that has serious answers is being cast aside. Because biblical Christianity is the only source that provides a verifiable solution to the problem of death, its information about the afterlife should be trusted. But instead, the masses of dying men and women seek insight in the philosophies and theories found in various religions, gurus, mediums, and psychics. Or perhaps in your neighborhood, workplace, or social circle your friends look to pop culture, Hollywood movies, talk shows, or hip celebrities to inform them about what lies beyond.
Either way, we can be sure that when the authoritative data found in the Bible is cast aside, the deciding factor of what is considered true ends up being everyone s own sense of what seems right to them. If a movie script or a best-selling book resonates with one s intuition, then it is embraced as the way things are. This is what I believe about the afterlife usually means I feel like this is the way things ought to be. If we are to know with certainty what lies beyond this life, we must look to the information provided by the One who made us, initially mandated the problem in response to human rebellion, and then lovingly and graciously provided us with a way out.
GOD HAS SPOKEN
The Bible does not claim to be a book of people s best thoughts about God. Rather, it asserts that it is a precise record of God s thoughts to people. The reason we can profitably gain truth from its teaching, have our lives authoritatively corrected and redirected by its sentences, and be trained by its information to think and live as we ought, is because it claims to be God s own words.
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness (2 Timothy 3:16).
Just as words are breathed out from a person s mouth when he speaks them, the written sentences given through the human authors of the Bible are declared to be God s very words. The Old English word translated breathed out was inspired , which came from the Latin word inspiro, meaning to breathe out. Some English translations of the Bible still translate this verse from the original Greek language with the phrase All Scripture is given by inspiration of God ( KJV , NKJV )