What does Ellen White write about...
Adventistische Schriften über: "What happens after death"
Answer
The provided quotes show that after death, the dead sleep unconscious until they are awakened on the day of judgment. Then follows the judgment, where the righteous receive eternal life and the unrighteous receive damnation. The doctrine of suffering of the dead or purgatory is rejected; instead, the resurrection is emphasized as the beginning of immortality.
The state of dead sinners
»There is no statement in the Bible that generally refers to the wicked dead and portrays them in a state or place of torment. Nor is there a case in the Bible where people are threatened that if they are wicked, they would fall into a house of misery at death. Even Jesus' warning, which is considered the strongest proof of the immortality of the soul, says not a single word about the suffering of the soul in Hades, the place of the dead, but refers entirely to what will be inflicted "on the soul and the body in hell," the place of punishment for the resurrected wicked.«
Awareness and preaching in death
»If preaching did not take place to them while they were in prison, and this expression refers to the state of death into which they have fallen and in which they now are, then this verse provides no kind of proof for the conscious state; it simply states that Christ began to preach and preached through his spirit in the days of Noah, who are now in prison or in a state of death.«
Resurrection and eternal life
»He [the believer] may die, as Christ died, but the life of the Savior is in him. His life is hidden with Christ in God. "I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it abundantly," Jesus spoke. He carries out the great process by which believers become one with Him in this life, in order to be one with Him for all eternity. On the last day, He will raise them up as part of Him.«
The resurrection as the beginning of immortality
»Since the whole man has sinned, the whole man died; contrary to this usual distinction of soul and body: And that the present departure of the soul to heaven or hell is a pure invention: And that at the resurrection is the beginning of our immortality, and then the actual damnation and salvation, and not before.«
The judgment after death
»I saw the dead, small and great, standing before God's throne; and the books were opened, and another book was opened, which is the book of life; and the dead were judged according to the things written in the books, according to their deeds.... And whoever was not found in the book of life was thrown into the lake of fire.«
The awakening of the dead to eternal life
»Many of them who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt. And the wise shall shine like the brightness of the sky; and those who turn many to righteousness shall shine like the stars forever and ever.«
Original Sources (English)
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