I do not for a moment believe and would never say that one cannot be saved without believing in Conditional Immortality. I do however know that what you believe about Conditional Immortality touches on many …

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 …

Here is the audio of the fifth in a series of sermons I am preaching at my church (on Conditional Immortality and specifically here, the Kingdom of God as the hope of the righteous). The sermon …

A friend of mine wrote the following piece on his blog site Explaining the Bible.
Yesterday I found a thrush that had clearly only just died, apparently after flying into a solid object. It was …

This is the fifth of a series of sermons I am preaching at my church. This one is entitled, The Hope of The Righteous: The Kingdom of God on Earth! (Part 1). It is less …

This piece originally appeared as an editorial in “From Death to Life” Issue 21 Oct / Dec 2001 and is being reposted as we approach the anniversary of the 9/11 tragedy.
The recent terrorist attacks on America …

Melvin Tinker, in an article entitled, “Does The Christian View Of Death Need Reviving?” (Churchman 107/3 1993) – not all of which I agree with – draws a startling contrast between the deaths of two …

According to Epicureans, anticipating one’s own annihilation ought not to be a frightening experience. Non-existence precludes the possibility of sensation. Consequently annihilation can be neither pleasant nor unpleasant. And that which cannot be felt as …

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 …

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 …

Resurrection Hope, by David A. Dean, Advent Christian General Conference, 1992, p. 73-74.
“Few doctrines are filled with more practical consequences than the biblical teaching that all the dead are asleep or unconscious.
First, the “sleep of …

At the Daily Beast, under the heading, Blogs and Stories is the article “Is Michael Jackson in Heaven?” by Jason Boyett.
Boyett begins “Michael Jackson was raised by Jehovah’s Witnesses and flirted with Scientology and Islam. …

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 …

Brief Bible Studies.  Vol.24, N0 3, p.28.
Sidney Hatch, Th.M.

“Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth …. the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.”  – James 1:18,21.
The Word …

Many people will not know that Michael Jackson was, as least for a part of his life, a Jehovah’s Witness. Some have suggested that a few years back the King of Pop may have turned …

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 …

We believe that God alone has immortality. Human beings are mortal because of sin: John Brown lies a-moulding in the grave, lock stock and barrel, his soul does not go marching on.
We reject the notion …