How much does one know of God when dead?
Answer
"For in death there is no; remembrance of Thee." Ps. 6: 5.
NOTE-There is not even a remembrance of God. As already seen, the Bible everywhere
represents the dead as asleep. If they were in heaven or in hell, would it be fitting to represent them thus?
Was Lazarus, whom Jesus loved, in heaven when the Savior said, "Our friend Lazarus sleeps"? John 11:11.
If so, calling him to life was really robbing him of the bliss of heaven that rightly belonged to him. The
parable of the rich man and Lazarus, recorded in Luke 16, was given to teach, not consciousness in death,
but that in the judgment riches will avail nothing unless rightly and beneficently used, and that poverty will
not keep one out of heaven.
In receiving the Son what do we have in Him?
What is said of Christ's childhood and early life?
Why do the inhabitants of heaven worship God?
Who gives this rest from sin?
Will the world be prepared to meet Him?
8. After the fall of Western Rome, what power in the East arose to harass and overrun the Roman world, East and West?
How will the righteous ever afterward appear?
Questions & Answers are from the book Bible Readings for the Home Circle