Tarheel Covenant Blog

Historical Christianity has defined the destiny of the unrepentant wicked as eternity in Hell. Eternal conscious torment, or ECT for short. ...

Where was the spirit of Stephen after he was stoned to death? The Seventh-Day Adventists claim that it was asleep with his body in the grave...

I often find myself in the middle between two camps regarding the Christian and the Sabbath. On one side, I have the Seventh-Day Adventists,...

 "Christ, and Christ alone, is the source of righteousness, that is, the righteousness that we need and becomes ours by God's act o...

As we know, Jesus was a frequent target of the Pharisees, as they asked Him questions that they expected to baffle Him or to expose Him to p...

" Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in Me. In My Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I...

 I have noticed a curious trend among professing evangelicals to adopt the doctrine of annihilationism . That doctrine holds that the wicked...

In our day, there is a growing movement to deny that the Bible teaches an eternal judgment in Hell. Rather, these people say, the spirit of ...

One thing that I have noticed when dealing with people from pseudo-Christian sects is that, when confronted with Scripture that flatly refu...

I have covered the issue of soul sleep before . One version is held by Seventh-Day Adventists and teaches exactly that, that the spirit of t...

In interactions with annihilationists, I always insist that the Christian at death is immediately ushered into the presence of Jesus in Heav...

" Therefore let no one pass judgment on you in questions of food and drink, or with regard to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath ...

As a history book, comparable to Samuel and Kings in the Old Testament, the Acts of the Apostles is not a good place to base ones doctrine....

There the wicked cease from troubling,      and there the weary are at rest. There the prisoners are at ease together;      they hear not t...

The Jehovah's Witnesses and Seventh-Day Adventists deny that the Christian goes to Heaven upon death. The former claim that the spirit i...

" Let Israel be glad in his Maker;      let the children of Zion rejoice in their King! Let them praise His name with dancing,      ma...

In Luke 8:40-42, 49-56, the Evangelist tells us the story of Jesus's healing of the daughter of Jairus, the leader of a synagogue. We ...

The Seventh-Day Adventists and Jehovah's Witnesses have a similar doctrine regarding the intermediate state of the human spirit. Accordi...

Seventh-Day Adventists and Jehovah's Witnesses (mainly, but others, too) hold to the doctrine of annihilationism, the supposed destructi...

" You have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable angels in festal gatherin...