State of the Dead

But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept. 1Corinthians 15:20 And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt. Daniel 12:2 What people might think of as "hell", a place with fire, is the Lake of Fire at the END, which will destroy all evil once and for all. But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death. Revelation 21:8
"The sermon which satan preached to Eve upon the immortality of the soul - "Ye shall not sureley die" - they have reiterated from the pulpit; and the people recieve it as pure Bible truth. It is the foundaation of spiritualism. The word of God nowhere teaches that the soul of man is immortal. Immortality is an attribute of God only.  "Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honor and power everalasting. Amen."1 Timothy 6:16  An eternally burning hell preached from the pulpit, and kept before the people, does injustice to the benovoleent character of God. It presents Him as the veriest tyrant in the universe. The widespread dogma has turned thousands to universalism, infidelity, and atheism. The word of God is plain. It is a straight chain of truth." Testimonies for the Church vol. 1,p.344-345 E.G.W.