The State of the Dead
Nowhere does Scripture extend the hope of salvation to the unsaved dead but instead reveals that they will ever continue to exist in a state of conscious suffering (Lu. 16:23-28; Rev. 14:11; 20:14, 15; Col. 3:6; Rom. l: 21-32; John 3:36; Phil.3:19; 2 Thess. 1:9). The teachings of Universalism, of probation after death, of annihilation of the unsaved dead, and of the unconscious state of the dead, saved or unsaved (Lk. 16:23-28; Phil 1:23; 2 Cor. 5:6-8), are opposed by us as being thoroughly unscriptural and dangerous doctrines.