After Life: A Glimpse of Eternity Beyond Death's Door

by F. LaGard Smith

Despite the prospect of certain death, few of us spend much time probing God's Word to discover what can be known about our existence beyond the grave. In this book, LaGard explores what the Scriptures tell us about death, hades, heaven, and hell, and also challenges the current fascination with Rapture and end-times theories as well as the afterlife beliefs of Seventh-day Adventists, Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormons, and Roman Catholics.

334 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2003

Reviews

[Jacob Hudgins · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not one of Smith’s better works. The topic doesn’t work well with his style. Smith likes to meander through a topic, but afterlife issues are already nebulous enough. I thought the book would have benefited from a clearer propositional approach (that may be the first time I’ve ever said that!).

I found his reasoning sometimes tortured, sometimes selectively literal, and sometimes spot-on. I give him credit for thinking his own thoughts, but I wouldn’t recommend it.

[Phillip Goodchild · Rating 3 out of 5]

Normally I immensely enjoy F. LaGard Smith, but I'm not sure what it quite was about this particular volume that left me a little cold. It might have been the somewhat condescending/irritated tone he adopts throughout, as if dealing with an audience of idiots, which, to be fair, he may well might be and I understand his exasperation! But it does make the book somewhat more challenging to read.