(Podcast Version – Follow/Subscribe) In our last post, we saw that Jesus and his early followers had a materialistic understanding of human nature. They believed and taught that bodily resurrection is the only hope for a future life (a doctrine that is fundamentally inconsistent with the idea that we have immaterial souls). In this post, we […]
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To Dirt You Will Return (Israelite Anthropology)
(Podcast Version – Follow/Subscribe) In this post, I’ll answer the question from the end of our last post: What did ancient Israelites think about death? Before getting started, I should repeat a qualification I made a few posts back. I’m generally referring to “what ancient Israelites believed” on these subjects, but please keep in mind […]