Does Adventism Have Anything Interesting to Say? Written by: June 6, 2021 Recently, I sat with a friend who lost two close friends this year and listened as he told me how he has been reengaging with the Adventist doctrine of the soul (specifically what is called psychopannychism, or soul-sleep): “Do we really expect to throw a few verses at people and expect them to happily accept that mom and dad aren’t in heaven, playing golf with Jesus?” My friend wasn’t abandoning the church’s teaching, but asking: “Is this all we have to say about death?” It seems so. Amazing Facts’ popular “Storacles of Prophecy” Bible study series approaches the subject of death from the story of King Saul at Endor in 1 Samuel 28. The first substantial question the study asks is: “Do the dead come back to converse with or to haunt the living?” Of course, the student cannot be trusted to answer that question without a little steering: “No! The Bible is clear. A dead person does nothing and knows nothing about what is happening on earth.” The author seems more interested in slamming doors than opening them. To anyone grieving or laboring under the screaming shadow of death, this is cold counsel.