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61441 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 924.2 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… is naturally mortal. Immortality as a natural quality of man is not a Christian doctrine, though it is possibly a Platonic doctrine....
61442 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 924.3 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… his natural finitude.” 50) Paul Tillich, Systematic Theology, vol. 2, pp. 66, 67. (Italics supplied.)
61443 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 927.2 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… whole natural order, including the physical world, would be redeemed and changed.” 58) Edmund Parry, Confessing the Gospel Mark Preached, pp. 121ff. (Italics supplied …
61444 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 930.2 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… human nature. Man is a mortal being. There is nothing in him that is immortal or ‘deathless.’ In this respect, man is no better than the animal ( Ecclesiastes 3:18 …
61445 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 930.5 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… a natural result of what we call death. Rather than being the gift of God in redemption, it is inferred that this is a portion of the basic nature of man.
61446 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 931 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
XVI. Ceylon’s Niles-Not “Natural Immortality” but “Resurrection”
61447 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 931.4 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… the natural immortality of Jesus.” But the resurrection of Christ was not, Niles holds, a “natural but a supernatural event.” Jesus came “back again among men.” Hear …
61448 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 932.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… the natural immortality of Jesus. But what the Gospels assert is not simply that Jesus is alive, but that Jesus is here, back again among men....
61449 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 932.2 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… a natural event, that is, an event which could happen again and again in nature. But that is not at all what happened: only Jesus has risen; his resurrection is …
61450 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 933 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… by nature No disembodied exist. Ult. extinction 2 870 Craig, C. T. 1953 America Methodist Dean (Drew) No natural immort. Immort. at res. 3 872 DeWolf, Harold L. 1953 America …
61451 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2
… the nature of man practically all declare, in variant phrasing, that man has no natural, inherent, innate immortality; no separate, independent, imperishable …
61452 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 937.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
Heller cites approvingly the modern “unified psychosomatic” concept of being-that “the soul is not a detachable part of man’s nature capable of independent life and activity.” Of the traditional position he says significantly:4) Ibid., p. 219.
61453 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 938.3 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… physical nature is involved. We would do better to speak of the ‘resurrection of man,’ or, to use the Scriptural phrase, ‘the resurrection of the dead,’ for the proper …
61454 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 939.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… “by nature.” He is dependent “upon God for the gift and continuance of life.” He “receives from God the gift of immortal life through faith in Jesus Christ.” Then comes …
61455 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 939.2 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… the nature and capacities of man, but in the character and saving power of God. The Christian’s hope of eternal life rests not on the immortality of his own …
61456 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 939.3 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… a natural and inalienable property.” Repeating for emphasis that the Bible “holds that man is mortal,” Heller states: “God, by the exercise of his own power, will …
61457 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 943.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… the natural immortality of the soul the Christian message asserts the reality of death.” Then follows this arresting statement:31) Ibid., pp. 15, 16. 32) Ibid., p. 22 …
61458 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 943.2 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… soul naturally survives death, but that ‘this mortal must put on immortality.’” 33) Ibid.
61459 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 943 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
3. HOPE IN “RESURRECTION,” NOT IN “NATURAL IMMORTALITY.”
61460 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 943.3 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… a natural unfolding of man’s constitution, and that the Christian hope is in resurrection, a being raised from the dead, rather than in a natural immortality …