The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2

VI. Cambridge’s Dodd-No Innate Immortality in Bible

Prof. CHARLES H. DODD, ⁴² of Cambridge University, in discussing the “future life,” likewise stated that it was in the “strongly Hellenized book,” The Wisdom of Solomon, that the “Platonic doctrine of the immortality of the soul” emerged among the Jews. He then comments that while the New Testament is “full of the assurance of everlasting life,” there is “no discussion of immortality as a philosophical theory”—that is, of Innate Immortality. Paul is not attempting in 1 Corinthians 15:12-58 to “prove the immortality of the soul.” ⁴³ Professor Dodd adds that Paul teaches CFF2 763.1

“A dead man really is dead and done for unless and until God makes him alive by an act of creative power [the resurrection, and that this miracle will take place when the New Age dawns.” ⁴⁴ CFF2 763.2