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21601 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 300.3 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

… then comforts the believers with the assurance, “I have the keys of hades and of death.” That is, “I will open hades [gravedom] for My people, even as I opened it for …

21602 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 338.4 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

The comfort Paul offered the bereaved Christians at Thessalonica was not that their loved ones who had died in Christ would be immediately with Him in conscious …

21603 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 471.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

… gentle, comforting word substituted for the harsher, more repellent term. Now note the technical term.

21604 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 618 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

1. BARREN COMFORT OF STOICS, EPICUREANS, AND SKEPTICS

21605 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 620.3 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

… seeks comfort in the concept of the unconsciousness of death, and records, “If there is nothing good in death, at least there is no evil.” But he said:9) Ibid., i. 38; cf …

21606 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 621.2 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

… sought comfort and protection in the thought of an eternal sleep in the night of the nether world. Catullus cried to Lesbia, “When the short day is past and gone …

21607 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 871.4 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

… or Comforter, who was to declare the way of salvation.

21608 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 1109 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

… . Barren Comfort of Stoics, Epicureans, and Skeptics 618 2. Manilius: Holds a Fatalistic Pantheism 619 3. Cicero: Vacillates Between Belief and Doubt 619 II. Lucretius …

21609 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 78.4 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

… and comfort in Christ, and awaited the resurrection, together with the saints who preceded them in death.” 26) A Compend of Luther’s Theology, p. 242.

21610 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 95.4 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

… not comforted the Thessalonians with that doctrine, if he had wist it, that the souls of their dead had been in joy; as he did with the resurrection, that their …

21611 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 169.3 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

… and comfortable livings, and to urge the founding of “pure churches.” It exerted a wide influence.

21612 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 732.4 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

… to comfort them in sorrow? How can those who believe in man’s consciousness in death reject what comes to them as divine light communicated by glorified …

21613 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 814.4 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

… little comfort in it. Thoughtless people often surmise that they will survive death and hope that, if they do, they will find existence somewhat less trying …

21614 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 825.3 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

… being comforted from the same source-yet these representations are not in any respect Christian, but purely Grecian and contrary to the essence of Christian …

21615 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 1024.5 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

… -so comforting, the Christian church early chose to dilute by limiting the domain of death to man’s physical nature, to his body. It reserved immortality for …

21616 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 1100 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

6. SUBSTITUTES SPIRITUALISM FOR HOLY SPIRIT AS “COMFORTER.”

21617 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 1182.5 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

… Holy Comforter. These three express in divine Science the threefold, essential nature of the infinite.” 41) Ibid., pp 331, 332. (Italics supplied.)

21618 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 1331 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

… as “Comforter” 1100 IV. Disdains Bible Support, Yet Craftily Claims It 1100 1. Invokes Both Antiquity and Modern Scientific Support 1101 2. Claims Bible Permeated …

21619 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 88.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

… future, comforting both the sufferers under Domitian and those of subsequent ages, predicting the course of both political and ecclesiastical empire …

21620 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 119.6 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

… furnishing comfort and hope for the Christian warfare, spiritual food for personal devotions, and themes for uplifting religious music—as witness some …