Sabbath School Study Hour

This week we will reflect on how the notion of the final resurrection unfolded in Old Testament times, with special focus on the statements of Job, some psalmists, and the prophets Isaiah and Daniel.

Is there an immaterial soul or spirit that consciously survives physical death? This week we will consider how the Old Testament defines human nature and the condition of human beings at death.

This week we will reflect on the fall of Adam and Eve, on how sin and death took over our world, and on how God planted a seed of hope for humanity even back in Eden.

Christ speaks of God’s unconditional love for all human beings as the pattern for all our own interactions. How can you reflect this pattern more closely within your family and church?

Though God intimately knows the future, we are still free in the choices we make. How do we reconcile these two ideas?

What are ways that others should be able to see, from the kind of lives that we live, the reality of our God? Though we can be forgiven and accept God’s forgiveness, how do we learn to forgive ourselves, no matter how unworthy we are of that forgiveness?

How can we learn to trust God and cling to His promises when events don’t appear providential at all, and indeed, God seems silent?

What are the idols of our culture, our civilization? How can we make sure we aren’t worshiping anyone or anything other than the Lord?

How can we learn to trust God when we don’t see “justice” being done, when we see people who do evil get away with it, or when we see the innocent suffer?

Why is it so comforting to know that while not all things are God’s will, He is still in charge?