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61401 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 877.3 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… spiritual nature the soul has been considered indestructible. Hence the question of life after death has been the question of demonstrating the immortality …
61402 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 878.6 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
So Kantonen concludes that “it is impossible to hold that the soul is by its very nature indestructible.” 54) Ibid.: p. 35.
61403 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 880.2 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… the nature of God also appears to be vindicated....
61404 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 880.5 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… or “natural immortality of the soul.” It is dependent upon the grace of God and received through the resurrection. Here is Roberts’ succinct statement:64) HAROLD …
61405 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 881.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… by nature inherits eternal life. The doctrine of the natural immortality of the soul, when advanced by Christian thinkers, is the outcome, not of reflection …
61406 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 881.2 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… by nature into this life, but raised to it by the power of God. What Christianity offers is not the promise of immortality through the possession by man of some …
61407 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 882.2 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… human nature as “the true child of Mary, through whom He took human nature from Adam.” The portrayal to this point lays the foundation. Now comes the crucial section …
61408 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 883.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… of natural life.” And now comes this key thought by Atkinson—man was not made immortal. Such an impression was a concept introduced by Greek philosophy in direct …
61409 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 883.4 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… “man’s natural life.” Later, in the New Testament the “last Adam” is contrasted with the “first man,” Adam—a “living soul”—while the “last Adam” is “a quickening spirit …
61410 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 885.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… the nature of that “second death,” Dr. Atkinson says: “It is well to notice that it was not said to Adam, ‘In the day that thou eatest thereof, thou shalt suffer eternal …
61411 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 885.4 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… exalted nature, and the first in whom moral evil manifested itself. We read of his creation and life before his fall, his fall itself and his final annihilation …
61412 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 886.5 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… the nature of man and the meaning of death. Here is God’s original explanation to man of the fact of death.
61413 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 888.2 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
That is Dr. Atkinson’s simple but adequate recital of the origin, nature, and destiny of man, in contradistinction to the popular notion of an indefeasibly immortal soul and endless torment for the incorrigible sinner.
61414 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 889.2 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… in nature, and that it is this view of man, and not the Christian, that the scientific evidence refutes.” 1) DERWYN R. G. OWEN (1914-), Anglican, was trained at the University …
61415 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 890.2 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… and natural impulses. It regards the body as the tomb or prison of the soul from which it longs to get free. Finally, it tends to suppose that the soul, even in its …
61416 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 891.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… human nature is inherently immortal.” Owen also says that “many of our hymns are nothing but thinly disguised Orphic poems.” Then he states:5) Ibid., p. 28.
61417 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 891.3 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… human nature is a unity; in the New Testament it teaches that man’s ultimate destiny involves the ‘resurrection of the body.’” The Greek, or religious, concepts …
61418 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 894.3 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… man’s nature and destiny. But man determines his own “destiny” by his own choices: “It is true that the doctrine of the immortality of the soul as a substance is …
61419 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 898.4 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
“Paul holds that the life to come is a gift of God, not (as the Greeks held) a natural possession of man. Not the immortality of the soul but the resurrection of the body is his concern and hope.” 48) Ibid., p. 54. (Italics supplied.)
61420 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 899.2 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… a natural possession: “As ‘God alone hath immortality,’ immortal life for St. Paul, as for all the New Testament writers, is the gift of God in Christ. We are not immortal …