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You are here: Home / Theology / Immortality / Benjamin Franklin Wrong About Immortality

Benjamin Franklin Wrong About Immortality

August 31, 2009 By Tarnya 1 Comment

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 will receive  immortality until the the time of the resurrection at the second coming of Christ (John 5:28, 29, 1Cor. 15:51-55).

Better that we follow the teaching of the Apostle Paul who said: “For I am already being poured out like a drink offering, and the time has come for my departure [death]. I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. Now there is in store for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day—and not only to me, but also to all who have longed for his appearing.” (2Timothy 4:6-8).

“That day” is, of course, not the day of his death but the day of Christ’s appearing when all the faithful will receive their reward.

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  1. Lance says

    August 11, 2011 at 3:40 pm

    It is curious that many humans seek to gain immortality in some form through the application of their sciences and technologies, but this is not the immortality of the ressurection that is promised to the faithful who acknowledge Jesus as the Christ. When Christ finally appears to all the faithful will receive their reward, and the unfaithful, or wicked, will receive their reward. Many there are who reject the doctrine of Christ, and they are those who make up the ‘spirit of antichrist’, which is very much in evidence in media of all types.

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