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61221 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 635.5 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

In the light of all this evidence, Gladstone soberly concludes, “We have ample warrant for declining to accept the tenet of natural immortality as a truth of Divine Revelation.” 29) Ibid., p. 198.

61222 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 635.7 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

… of natural immortality, and takes firm ground when denying to it authority or countenance from the Holy Scriptures. On the other hand, it renounces also the …

61223 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 636.2 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

… destructive nature of sin against God is taken as the basis of this scheme of ideas; and it claims to work according to natural laws, in propounding, as the eventual …

61224 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 636.4 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

1. Is Unscriptural.—“That the natural immortality of the soul is not taught in Holy Scripture.”

61225 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 637.8 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

12. Restitutionism Unsupported.—“The notion of Universal Restitution is, then, not supported by Scripture, or by Christian tradition, or by any sound philosophy of human nature.”

61226 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 637.9 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

… a natural indefeasible immortality of the soul, as an immaterial existence, has come, unawares and gradually to reckon, or be assumed, as a doctrine of Faith …

61227 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 638.2 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

… the nature and destiny of man. Charles Spurgeon almost fiercely maintained the Innate Immortality of the soul, and the eternal, agonizing punishing of the …

61228 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 641.3 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

… , or natural theology, particularly in the field of Christian evidences. He was an earnest churchman and competent theologian and gave a noted “Lecture on …

61229 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 642.2 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

… by nature immortal but that immortality is made possible through redemption. Furthermore, he states his belief that “the intermediate state between Death …

61230 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 642.3 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

… man’s nature with that of the animal creation, Professor Stokes declares that man alone has a spiritual nature, but that this does not “supersede it [the animal …

61231 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 643.2 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

… no natural fulfillment so far as can be seen, it is that he alone is in an unnatural state,—in a state, that is, different from that for which he was originally fitted …

61232 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 643.3 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

… as natural means are concerned, was irretrievable. Not only so, but their progeny, having, by natural descent, inherited a nature which was fallen from the primal …

61233 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 643.4 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

… divine natures being united in him, it was not possible that he should be held down by death, and he rose from the dead, the firstfruits of them that slept: rose …

61234 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 644 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

6. ANY “NATURAL IMMORTALITY” FORFEITED THROUGH TRANSGRESSION

61235 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 644.4 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

… the natural immortality of the soul seem to be nearly unanimous in the belief that, at death, man passes into some different state of conscious existence …

61236 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 644.5 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

… the natural immortality of the soul, that the writer has seen, appears to him to be of any value; and, as to a prevalent belief among uninstructed nations, if it …

61237 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 645.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

… and naturally explicable on the opposite supposition.

61238 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 646 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

1. ADVENT MOVEMENT OMITS MAN’S NATURE AND DESTINY

61239 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 646.2 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

… man’s nature and destiny, and thus of the disposition of the wicked. It did not raise the issue of the mortality or immortality of man, and whether the final …

61240 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 647.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

… the nature, and particularly the destiny, of man, sharply to the forefront. It drew ever larger numbers into the study and acceptance of Conditionalism. And …