Articles in Immortality
Video number six, the final video in the series Life Death and the Resurrection is entitled, ”In the End What?” Here is the outline that goes with the video.
Reading: 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18
“The public are turning to …
In an article entitled: “Immortality of the Soul” (at Jewish Encylopedia Dot Com) Kaufmann Kohler states: “The belief that the soul continues its existence after the dissolution of the body is a matter of philosophical …
Benjamin Franklin said, “Fear not Death; for the sooner we die, the longer shall we be immortal.”
He couldn’t have been further from the truth.
The Bible states clearly that human beings are mortal and no one …
Woody Allen didn’t preach the sermon at our church this week. I did however quote him on the subject of immortality.
Further to my last post, technology did cooperate and I am able to put up …
This is a brief summary of a sermon I am preaching at my church on “Advent Christian distinctives” (Yes, I belong to the Advent Christian family of churches). God willing and technology cooperating I will …
Does Paul’s desire “to depart and to be with Christ” show us that the believer goes immediately to “heaven” at death and thus that death is “better by far” than life? No way!
Once again we must ask, …
From, “What Is Conditional Immortality?” (Miscellaneous Comparisons with the Greek Doctrine of Natural Immortality) by Pastor Sidney A. Hatch, Brief Bible Studies: Vol. 20, No. 2, p.9-18.
Conditional Immortality recognises that only God has immortality (1 …
From, “What Is Conditional Immortality?” (Miscellaneous Comparisons with the Greek Doctrine of Natural Immortality) by Pastor Sidney A. Hatch, Brief Bible Studies: Vol. 20, No. 2, p.9-18.
Many times, over the years, I have remarked to …
Yesterday I posted Edward Fudge’s ”Q and A” style summary of what the Bible really says about the end of the wicked. Click here to read the questions. What follows below are the answers – …
Edward Fudge presents this “Q and A” style summary of what the Bible really says about the end of the wicked.
The Bible warns that those who reject God’s mercy now will face him in judgment …
In an article entitled Destroyed For Ever: An Examination of the Debates Concerning Annihilation and Conditional Immortality (Themelios, 1996) Tony Gray did an excellent job of summarising recent scholarly debate over conditional immortality.
He concludes “that the …
[Bible Standard, No. 3, December, 1877, p. 19.]
“The more any man is convinced of the Immortality of the Soul form the principles of Aristotle or Descartes, the less he will concern himself about the gospel account …
E. Earle Ellis, in “Let the Reader Understand: Temple and Eschatology in Mark,” in Kent E. Browner and Mark W. Elliot, ed. Eschatology in the Bible and Theology: Evangelical Essays at the Dawn of the …
By A.A. Phelps, A.M. Late Free Methodist Minister, U.S.A.
[Bible Standard, No. 2, November, 1877, pp12-14.]
For many years I tenaciously clung to the dogma of natural immortality. At length I so far laid aside my prejudice …
“The Son quickeneth whom he will.” - John 5:21
Sidney Hatch; Brief Bible Studies, Vol. 21, No.1, p. 21.
The Greek philosopher Plato has been called “the prophet of the doctrine of immortality.” By this, of course, is meant …
[Bible Standard, No. 1, October, 1877, p6.]
Andrew Carmichael has well said: ”It cannot be too often repeated: If there he an immortal soul, there is no resurrection; and if there be any resurrection there is …
The fact is that according to Scripture, God alone has immortality as a present possession:
Now to the King, eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God (1Tim. 1:17);
Who alone is immortal, and lives in unapproachable light. (1Tim. …
1. ONLY GOD IS IMMORTAL BY NATURE. IMMORTALITY IS A GIFT OF GOD TO CREATURES.
The Bible affirms that God alone has immortality as a present possession (1Tim. 1:17 c.f. 6:16). The “glory of the immortal …
Recently Glenn Peoples posted a podcast on his blog that basically consists of the paper he presented at our Association Conference in 2007. The podcast can be found at http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/. The entry that contains the …
Immortality for fallen humanity is an idea so terrible God would not even talk about it.
Sidney Hatch (Daring To Differ: Adventures in Conditional Immortality, Brief Bible Studies, 1991, p. 41) explains: “When He [God] expelled …
