Death and Judgment  CONCORDANT STUDIES IN APPROACHING; the question of the scriptural meaning of the Hebrew sheol and the Greek hadês, it is necessary first of all to establish the scriptural significance of “soul.” This is because, in Scripture, man, who is said both to be a soul and to have a soul, returns in…

Death and Judgment  Remarkable as it may seem to some, death is a return. Man is soil and returns to the soil (Gen.3:19). The spirit returns to God who gave it (Ecc.12:7). The soul returns to the unseen whence it came (Psa. 9:17 and Acts 2:27,31). In fact, Job speaks of death itself as a…

Death and Judgment ““For the word of God is living and operative, and keen above any two-edged sword, and penetrating up to the parting of soul and spirit…”” (Heb. 4:12). THE LACK OF VITALITY and penetration in human literature and conversation is most clearly evidenced by the utter failure to distinguish between soul and spirit.…