QC and SG accountability (13/4/18)
We talked about two recent sermons in church. In the first, the preacher spoke about 'hell' and mentioned that Christ in His resurrection set imprisoned spirits in the part of Sheol (death, the grave) free. There is certainly evidence that there are two separate areas where the dead go in the OT (Lk 16:19ff): "Abraham's bosom" for the saved, and..somewhere else for the unsaved. We may take Abraham's bosom as a way of describing the complete happiness and satisfaction found when the righteous leave the world to be with God. So descriptions of Sheol in the OT where we are told that "in death there is no remembrance of you; in Sheol who will give you praise" (Ps 6:5) or "there is no work or thought or knowledge of wisdom in Sheol" (Ecc 9:10)are best seen as descriptions of the inability of the dead to participate in the course of events contrasted with the ability of the living, rather than statements of Sheol as a limbo-like state without awa...