The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1

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• Acknowledgments
• Table of Contents
• Charts
• Dedication
• From Author to Reader
• Prologue
• Part I-Biblical Norm Set Forth in Old Testament-Earliest Comprehensive Evidence on Life, Death, and Destiny
• Part II-Comprehensive Witness of the New Testament-Consummating Testimony of Christ and the Apostles on the Origin, Nature, and Destiny of Man
  • CHAPTER ELEVEN: Christ’s Infallible Testimony on Life Versus Death
    • I. Definitive Testimony of Jesus, Supreme Witness of All Time
    • II. Transcendent Scope and Significance of Incarnation
    • III. Eternal Life—Throbbing Heart of John’s Gospel Story
    • IV. Two Progenitors, Two Births, Two Contrasting Destinies
    • V. Rejection Comes Over Amazing “Zoe-Life” Claims
  • CHAPTER TWELVE: Coordinates All Aspects of Life, Death, and Destiny
    • I. Significance of Christ’s Life and Death in Plan of Redemption
    • II. Pivotal Place of Christ’s Teachings on Life, Death, and Destiny
    • III. Sets Pattern for Eschatological and Chronological Sequence
    • IV. Transcendent Events Mark “End of the World”
    • V. Apostles’ Descriptions Agree With Christ’s
    • VI. “Sleep” of Death Followed by Resurrection “Awakening”
    • VII. The Resurrection Provision Pivotal in Christ’s Teaching
  • CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Christ’s Great Parable of the Lost Opportunity
    • I. Problem Text (Luke 16:19-31): Parable-Fable of Dives and Lazarus
    • II. Significant Place of Parables in Christ’s Teaching
    • III. Doctrinal Dogmas of Pharisees in Time of Christ
    • IV. Christ’s Great Parable of the Lost Opportunity
    • V. Salient Points and Perplexing Problems Outlined
  • CHAPTER FOURTEEN: Gravity of Ascribing False Teachings to Christ
    • I. Josephus Illuminates Dives-Lazarus Story
    • II. Literalism Violates Consistency, Vitiates Christ’s Witness, Overturns Scripture Testimony
    • III. Gravity of Ascribing False Teaching to Christ, Embodiment of Truth
    • IV. Major Area of Disagreement Between Christ and Pharisees
    • V. Conclusion: Immortal Soulism Collapses Under Scrutiny
  • CHAPTER FIFTEEN: Christ’s Majestic Answer to the Penitent’s Plea
    • I. Problem Text (Luke 23:43): Penitent Thief—“Today”—and “Paradise”
    • II. Three “Heavens and Earths”—Past, Present, Future
    • III. Penitent Neither in Kingdom Nor in Paradise That Day
    • IV. Meaning Completely Altered by Position of Comma
    • V. Determining Evidences on the Technical Side
    • VI. Most Sublime Episode of Christ’s Redemptive Career
  • CHAPTER SIXTEEN: Christ Portrays Doom of Wicked as Utter Destruction
    • I. Seventeen Graphic Illustrations of Doom of Wicked
    • II. Christ’s Meaning of “Eternal” Fire, Punishment, Damnation
    • III. Christ’s Explicit Teachings on “Hell” Examined
    • IV. “Hades”—True Understanding Based on NT Usage, Not Pagan-Romanist
    • V. Problem Text (Mark 9:43-48): “Their Worm Dieth Not”
    • VI. Sin’s Punishment Does Not Continue Through All Eternity
  • CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: Theologian Paul on Life, Death, and Immortality
    • I. “Christ Our Life” Is Post-Pentecostal Theme
    • II. Heart of Pauline Theology—Gift of Life Instead of Destruction
    • III. Places All Messages in Graphic Eschatological Setting
    • IV. Pauline Portrayal and Usage of “Immortal” and “Immortality”
  • CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: Paul’s Leading Problem Passage (2 Corinthians 5:1-9)
    • I. “Absent From the Body”; “Present With the Lord”
    • II. Setting and Intent of Paul’s Unusual Portrayal
    • III. Full Text of Problem Passage With Definitions
    • IV. Five Basic Considerations Involved
    • V. Glossary of Key Words and Phrases by Verses
    • VI. Expositional Survey of Passage by Verses
  • CHAPTER NINETEEN: Paul’s Other Problem Passages
    • I. (2 Corinthians 12:2-4): Paul’s Vision—“In ... or Out of the Body”
    • III. Paul’s Baffling Dilemma-“Life” or “Death”
    • IV. Paul’s Great Third Choice Translation
  • CHAPTER TWENTY: Unique Witness of Epistles of Peter and John
    • I. Peter’s Portrayal of Cataclysmic End Events
    • II. Problem Text (1 Peter 3:19)—Preaching to “Spirits in Prison”
    • III. Christ Truly “Died” According to Prediction, Fulfillment, Attestation
    • IV. Problem Text (2 Peter 2:4)—Fallen Angels Detained in “Tartarus”
    • V. John’s Epistles: Life in and Through Christ Is Central Thought
  • CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE: Revelation-Inspiration’s Supreme Portrayal of Human Destiny
    • I. Tremendous Scope and Grand Finale of Book of Revelation
    • II. “Day of the Lord”—God’s Great Day of Reckoning With Man
    • III. OT Texts and Terms Portraying “Day of the Lord”
    • IV. NT Portrayal of Day of the Lord Jesus Christ
    • V. “Day of the Lord”—Fulfills in Historical Actualities of Apocalypse
  • CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO: Apocalypse Reveals Final Fate of Wicked
    • I. Teaching of the Apocalypse on Final Punishment
    • II. Gehenna “Lake of Fire” Totally Destroys All Sinners
    • III. Problem Text (Revelation 14:11)—Torment Day and Night; Smoke Ascending Forever
    • IV. No Eternally Seething “Lake of Fire” in Coming “New Earth”
  • CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE: Greek Terms and Usages—“Psuche” (Soul); “Pneuma” (Spirit)
    • I. Characteristic Advantages, Disadvantages, and Pitfalls of Greek
    • II Psuche in New Testament Usage
    • III Pneuma in New Testament Usage
    • IV. Exit and Re-entry of the Spirit
  • CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR: Terms and Usages: “Aion” and “Aionios”
    • I. Principles Governing the Meaning of Aion and Aionios
    • II Aion and Aionios in the Contrasts of Scripture
    • III. Texts Exemplify Diversified Meanings of Aion and Aionios
    • IV. Sound Interpretative Principles Emerge for Guidance
  • CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE: Terms and Usages: “Immortal,” “Incorruption,” “Immortality,” “Eternal Life”
    • I. “Immortality”—Springs From God, Bestowed on Man
    • II Athanasia, Aphthartos, Aphtharsia—Restrict Innate Immortality to God
    • III. The Five English Uses of Immortal/Immortality Examined
    • IV. Problem: “Eternal Life” and “Immortality”—Differences, Similarities, and Relationships
    • V. Eternal Life—Present Possession, but in Christ
    • VI. Immortality—God’s Alone, Man’s to “Put On” at Advent
    • VIII. Believers Predestined Heirs of Eternal Life Hereafter
  • CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX: Technical Terms: Sleeping, Waking, Resurrection
    • I. “Sleeping” and “Awakening”—NT Terms for Death and Resurrection
    • II. Two Separate General Resurrections—of Righteous and Wicked
    • III. Glory of Our Immortalized Resurrection Bodies
    • IV. Many in Heaven Through Special Resurrection or Translation
  • CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN: Terms and Usages: Final Disposition of the Wicked
    • I. Multiple Terms Affirm Destruction, Perishing, Extinction
    • II. Greek Terms Affirm “Destroy,” “Consume,” “Perish,” “Obliterate”
    • III. Weymouth’s Devastating Charge of Manipulated Meanings
    • IV. Succinct Summary of Over-all Evidence
  • CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT: Summing Up the Case for Biblical Conditionalism
    • I. Conditionalism Accentuated and Enforced in New Testament
    • II. Issues Illuminated Through Significant Series of “Two’s”
    • III. Fundamental Fallacy of Immortal-Soulist Concept
• Part III-Historical Development of Innate, Immortality Concept (900 B.C. to the Time of Christ)-Rise of Platonic Postulate and Penetration Into Jewry
• Part IV-Historical Conflicts Compass the Early Centuries (A.D. 150 to A.D. 500)-Positions of Subapostolic and Ante-Nicene Fathers, and Post-Nicene Developments Eventuate in a Theological Trilemma
• Appendixes
• Bibliography
• Subject Guide