Matt O'Reilly, PhD

Arguments in favor of the rapture depend heavily on 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18. In this video, Dr. Matt O’Reilly provides three reasons we...

Plenty of people are expecting the rapture, an event in which Christians are all taken up from the earth into heaven. The problem is that...

Watch this video on YouTube. Many Christians look forward to heaven. But the Bible doesn’t actually portray life after death as the heart...

God Loses If there is no bodily resurrection, sin wins and God loses. God did not design human beings to die. All through scripture death...

Dissatisfied with Heaven So what are they waiting for? To answer that question we need to look more closely at their appeal. Their...

The newest episode of the SoWhat? Podcast aired earlier this week. This one is part 2 of a discussion about the resurrection of Jesus in...

The newest episode of the So What? Podcast went live today. This one is in two parts, and the topic is one of my favorites. That’s right:...

From The Coming of God: Christian Eschatology: The immortality of the soul is an opinion – the resurrection of the dead is a hope. The...

Many of us thought it couldn’t get worse than seeing a medical doctor swill her wine and crunch her croutons while speaking of “less...

That’s what several standard Bible translations would have you think. The verse in question is 1 Corinthians 6:13a, and it turns out that...

Jerry Walls is taking a turn in Rachel Held Evan’s “Ask a…” series, and he is answering question on hell, free will, and possibility of...

I’m leading an adult Bible study on First John this summer, and last night we came to John’s first use of the word “antichrist”, which...

Everything Jesus says is his answer to the question raised by the disciples in 24:3. And their question is primarily looking for a bit of...

“…they will drink the wine of God’s wrath, poured unmixed into the cup of his anger, and they will be tormented with fire and sulfur in...

These questions and more have abounded for centuries; indeed, such questions are anticipated by the scriptures. In 1 Corinthians 15:35,...

In fact, Paul makes it clear here (Rom 8) and elsewhere that it’s the present life that is meant to function as purgatory. The sufferings...

With great confidence (and financial expenditure), May 21, 2011 is declared to be the day of Jesus’ return. Or the rapture. Or whatever....

“For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day when Noah entered...

So, here’s the question. Given the reality that the rapture is a relatively recent innovation, why is it so often presented in the media...

The rather straightforward story of Christian scripture is that God created a good world to be populated and overseen by creatures who...