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This final volume begins with ecclesiology, the study of the miracle of Christ’s church (local and universal, visible and invisible). Geisler examines its origin, nature, government, ordinances, ministry, and relation to the state. Last Things contains an in-depth study of the final resurrection, the final status of the saved and the lost, and the theories of purgatory and annihilationism. He...

Fourth, “sleep” is an appropriate figure of speech about death, since they share the same posture; both are temporary, and both are followed by awaking and standing up again. Therefore, these texts do not support the concept of the soul losing consciousness at death. Higher forms of animals have a soul, since the same Hebrew word for soul (nephesh) is used of animals, as is the word spirit (ruach; cf. Eccl. 3:21).39 If animal souls do not survive death,
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