The sections on dates, people, books, and places provide much of the "general knowledge" about the Bible. Events Abraham and Sarah 2000-1700 B.C. Israel's Exodus from Egypt 1275 B.C. Reign of David Begins 1000 B.C. Kingdom Divides into North and South 922 B.C. Fall of Northern Kingdom 722 B.C. Fall of Southern Kingdom 587 B.C. Some exiles return from Babylonia 539 B.C. Birth of Jesus 5 B.C. Jesus' death and resurrection A.D. 30 Biblical Maps The Ancient World Old Testament Palestine Antioch & Damascus The Fertile Cresent New Testament Pale...
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Do we really live after we die?
"If a man die shall he live again? All the days of my appointed time will I wait till my change come." Job 14:14 "Our Savior Jesus Christ...hath abolished death and brought life [everlasting] and immortality to light through the Gospel." 2 Tim. 1:10 THERE is a longing hope within men that death does not end all existence. There is an undefined hope that, somehow and somewhere, the life now begun will have a continuation. In some this hope turns to fear. Realizing their unworthiness of a future of pleasure, many fear a future of woe; and the more they dread it for themselves and others the more they believe in it. This undefined hope of a future life and its counterpart, fear, doubtless had their origin in the Lord's condemnation of the serpent after Adam's fall into sin and death, that eventually the seed of the woman should bruise the serpent's head. This was no doubt understood to mean that at least a portion of the...