Heaven and Hellenism

[Timotheist]

Here is an item that I am sure many who left the LC has had to come to grips with: that the teachings about death and resurrection from Sheol is a doctrine about the afterlife that is the minority view among the mainstream denominations of today.

Most teach an immediate destiny of heaven or hell, with the resurrection kinda thrown in as an afterthought.

When I decided to start going to church again after a long dry spell, it became very important to me to research this particular topic (among others) in order to decide just what it is I believed.

The following three posts presents the results of my research. The first is an intro, the second gets a little deeper, and the third is a long article that presents the bulk of my research.

You may want to get a cup of coffee before reading the third one.

(The articles are extracted from a larger set of articles that I had once envisioned as a website project. I will post them here mostly uneditted.)

I hope these will be a help to those who were once in the LC and now find themselves wondering about this topic.

Yours in Christ Jesus,