Search for: nature
61321 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 787.8 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… our nature.” 25) Ibid., p. 405.
61322 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 787.9 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
Thus Irenaeus “in the interests of the idea of Agape... combats the idea of ‘Natural Immortality.’” Nygren’s considered conclusion is:26) Ibid., p. 406.
61323 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 787.10 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… own nature, but to the operation of the Lord, who can give the mortal immortality and the corruptible incorruptibility. If man’s body represents the very …
61324 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 788.3 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… “by nature.” True life, he holds, depends upon entering into “fellowship with God.” It is brought about by the individual “response to the gift of grace.” If man fails …
61325 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 791.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… the natural, nonconfused sense concerning the human being as an entity of soul and body. It delivers us from the gloomy conception of an eternally brooding …
61326 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 791.2 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
So, wherever we turn we find essentially the same concern and virtually the same developing concepts and expressions. There is an undeniably harmonizing chorus of dissent against the traditional view of the nature of man.
61327 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 791.4 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… “all natural processes are ultimately due to the agency of souls.” To such, “to think of a soul as dying” is a “contradiction.” But Platonic immortality was “an entirely …
61328 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 792.3 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… the natural fate of souls from which every trace of the divine image has been effaced, and it may be that in this the conditionalist is right.” 48) Ibid., pp. 244, 245 …
61329 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 797.4 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
Forbes closes his brochure with the telling words “The last enemy that shall be abolished is death” ( Revelation 20:14 ). So fidelity to conviction on the nature and destiny of man cost Forbes his teaching position.72) Ibid., p. 30.
61330 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 799.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… are naturally immortal and as incapable of dying as God himself. Paul teaches that the ‘first man was of the earth, earthy;’ Plato, that the real man is a spirit …
61331 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 800.5 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
He then asks the question, “Is the human soul by nature such as to survive the death of the body?” His repeated answer, in varying forms, is No!87) Ibid.
61332 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 801.2 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… created nature immortal.” 90) Ibid., p. 266. (Italics supplied.)
61333 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 802.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… by nature as “mortal” as the “body.” It is through the resurrection, he held, that we receive “eternal life.” This leads to a deathless life of “eternal communion” with …
61334 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 802.2 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
“‘The nature of man does not account for the belief in the resurrection but only the sovereign creative power of God’s love gives us the assurance of a life …
61335 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 804.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… the nature and destiny of man. Both Dr. and Mrs. Guillebaud were deeply troubled over the “traditional views” of “everlasting torment in the fires of hell” for …
61336 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 806.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… all naturally suggest an immortal soul, but rather the opposite.” 4) Ibid., p. 1. 5) Ibid., p. 2.
61337 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 806.3 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… a natural possession of humanity.” Nor does the fact that man was made in the “image” of God prove his immortality, for “immortality is no more an essential quality …
61338 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 810.2 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… the natural use of language, and that there is nothing in the Bible to justify them. Salvation is salvation, offered here and now, to be accepted now, and delivering …
61339 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 813.7 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
As to the bearing of the widespread theory of evolutionary progression on the question, and the notion that “sin is simply the victory of man’s inherited beast instincts over the higher nature which evolution has produced,” Guillebaud answers:
61340 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 813.8 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… higher nature must constantly struggle. If he can believe this of God, it is more than strange that he should insist that God gave man an immortal soul, and that …