Author: Leah MarieAnn Klett

By Leah MarieAnn Klett Pastor and theologian John Piper has pushed back on the idea that Christians enter a state of unconscious “soul sleep” after death and stressed that instead, believers go immediately into the presence of Jesus. In a recent episode of Ask Pastor John, the 80-year-old Desiring God founder addressed a question about what happens in the moments after death, a topic that has long generated confusion among Christians seeking to reconcile passages like 1 Thessalonians 4:16–17 with 2 Corinthians 5:6–8. Responding to a listener named Jessica, Piper said the Apostle Paul’s writings leave no room for the notion that the soul remains dormant…

By Leah MarieAnn Klett An international team of researchers has recovered dozens of long-lost pages from one of Christianity’s earliest New Testament manuscripts, including the letters of Apostle Paul, shedding new light on how early believers read and studied Scripture. Led by the University of Glasgow, the team used advanced imaging technology to recover 42 missing pages from Codex H, a sixth-century Greek manuscript containing the letters of Apostle Paul, according to an announcement from the university. The manuscript, also known as GA 015, had been dismantled in the 13th century at a monastery on Mount Athos, where its parchment pages…