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61201 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 601.5 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… conduct. Nature teaches us that every soul may perish, and that the higher is a soul in rank the more fragile it is. Thus it is only conditionally that we are either …
61202 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 615.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… by nature.” And some held an “eschatological dualism” of “an eternal hell and an eternal paradise”—“two eternal and incompatible principles,” utterly foreign …
61203 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 629.3 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the Constitution and Course of Nature (1736), Gladstone declares that Butler contends as “a man who has to fight with one of …
61204 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 630.2 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… the natural and indefeasible immortality of the soul “apart from the body,” which the bishop asserts is ours as an “absolute possession.” After discussing the …
61205 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 631.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… a natural immortality inherent in the soul. Absent, it may be termed, for all practical purposes, until the third century; for, though it was taught by Tertullian …
61206 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 631.3 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… of natural, as opposed to that of Christian, immortality as beginning to gain a firm foothold in the Christian Church.” 10) Ibid. (Italics supplied.)
61207 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 631.4 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… the “natural immortality” concept, in contrast with the true and original “Christian” view. Then he adds:
61208 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 631.5 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… , the natural immortality of the soul. But the idea of restoration was only one amidst a crowd of his notions, all of which had the natural immortality of the …
61209 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 632.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… the natural immortality postulate-a “revolution of opinion” that, Gladstone declares, was established by the Middle Ages. Thus:
61210 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 632.2 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… of natural immortality.” 13) Ibid., pp. 188, 189.
61211 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 632.3 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… properly natural was unknown or nearly hidden, to the centuries of the later Middle Ages and of the modern times when, at least in the West, it had become practically …
61212 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 632.5 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… a natural endowment that immortality of the soul which was already ineradicably fixed as fact for Christian souls (although upon a ground altogether different …
61213 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 633.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
This “new doctrine” of natural immortality for the righteous led inevitably to a corollary position of vast proportions —that of the Eternal Torment of the damned, held increasingly as a threat over the sinner:
61214 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 633.2 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… , of natural immortality played so material a part. The sinner had to be persuaded. He had also to be threatened; and threatened with what? If the preacher only …
61215 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 633.4 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… “the natural immortality of the soul, in possession of the field of thought, and, perhaps, accepted it simply as part of the common heritage.” Finally, the Bull …
61216 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 634.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… contrasting natural and Christian immortality:22) Ibid., pp. 194, 195.
61217 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 634.2 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… of natural, as distinguished from Christian, immortality had not been subjected to the severer tests of wide publicity and resolute controversy, but had …
61218 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 634.3 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… purely natural immortality of the soul, they are rarely, if ever, derived from Scripture. For it will be borne in mind that, logically viewed, resurrection is …
61219 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 634.4 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… : “The natural immortality of the soul did not become the subject of free and general discussion in the Church. It crept onwards in the dark.” Then he draws the …
61220 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 635.2 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… the natural immortality of the soul is a doctrine wholly unknown to the Holy Scriptures, and standing on no higher plane than that of an ingeniously sustained …