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21801 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 227.3 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… this comforting fact of the sleep of the saints, the second coming of Christ is as near to every individual in the embrace of death, and to every generation …
21802 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 227.4 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… , in comforting the Thessalonians, along with all other Christians, always speaks of the dead as sleeping, and holds out the assurance of glorious final awakening …
21803 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 247.2 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… being “comforted” while Dives is “tormented” ( Luke 16:25 ). And Abraham further reminded Dives of the “great gulf fixed” between them, which made any passage or relief …
21804 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 259.2 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… were ‘comforted.’” Then he adds:
21805 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 284.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… was comforted by the faith of a penitent thief. And the sharer of the suffering of Golgotha would be with Him in Paradise restored, and that forever. Such is …
21806 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 …
21807 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 …
21808 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.
21809 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 618 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
1. BARREN COMFORT OF STOICS, EPICUREANS, AND SKEPTICS
21810 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 …
21811 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 …
21812 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 871.4 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… or Comforter, who was to declare the way of salvation.
21813 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 …
21814 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.
21815 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 …
21816 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.
21817 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 …
21818 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 …
21819 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 …
21820 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 …