Conditional Immortality, Soul Sleep and Annihilationism
One of the earliest texts that we conditionalists turn to for support of our outlandish theories about human mortality is Genesis 3:22. Some modern translations treat the text as God making a prohibition against human access to the tree of life: “And the LORD God said, “Now that the man has become like one of [...]
The Gospel At the office this week, one of my co-workers (who came from a Catholic background) was asking me about my church. He had heard the term evangelical before, but was not clear on what the word implied. I told him that when a church calls itself evangelical, it tends to emphasize the gospel, [...]
Reading George Aldridge’s The Star Evangel one cannot help but get caught up in the majesty of the idea. Aldridge suggests that the ancient people on the earth before Noah’s flood had an Evangel (a gospel message) of their own. It was not written on paper. It consisted of symbols that one could see in [...]
Devotional Thoughts from John 16. Republished from marmsky.wordpress.com with permission The difference between sorrow and joy for the disciples would be the resurrection (21-22). That event would give them courage to pray in Christ’s name to the Father and have fullness of joy because of that divine connection (23-24). That event would give them courage [...]
From pages 93-95 of the Bible Standard September 1878 In the first eight chapters of Paul’s letter to the saints at Rome, you will find a very comprehensive deliverance on this important subject. In most emphatic terms he describes the guilty condition of the whole family of man, and the completely adequate and gracious salvation [...]
republished from the Bible Standard August 1878 pg 81-84 THE declaration that “God created man in His own image, “ is frequently regarded and urged as an intimation that man was created immortal. The argument stands thus: God is immortal; man was made in the image of God, therefore man is immortal. The syllogism, however, [...]
By Beryl Hollis (Part 1 here) (Part 2 here) How Conditional Immortality Truths Release from Hindu Fears There are not going to be millions of rebirths. Because man does not have an immortal soul, he cannot be re-born into this world. To the Greek Socrates, death was a gain; to the atheist, it is a [...]
(Part 1 here) Teaching the Truth of Conditional Immortality As people who believe in Conditional Immortality, how do we go about teaching this truth to Hindus? We do not need to start by teaching against reincarnation. A Hindu who comes to Christ in faith for salvation naturally realises that the whole Christian teaching is different [...]
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 issues intimately related with our salvation. Conditional Immortality effects how we understand as Scripture, Human nature, Sin and its penalty, Death, [...]
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 is entitled, “The Hope of the Righteous: The Kingdom of God on Earth” (Part 1). As I have said, it [...]
Here is the video from last year's conference. The transcript is here: Tracing the Road to Gehenna We should be videoing this year's conference … [Read More...]
