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6501 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 592.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… own choice to become a sharer in the divine life,” and this calls for the “exercise of the creative power.” This is a special provision, or “creation,” on which “rest …
6502 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 715 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
1. MAN’S FREE CHOICE AND MORAL ACCOUNTABILITY
6503 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 715.2 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… free choice and moral accountability with which our first parents were endowed. These basic endowments are foundational to the entire question of the …
6504 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 717.3 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… of choice. This was conditional to his continuing “access to the tree of life.” It comprised the principle of “probation.” And this principle is constantly reiterated …
6505 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 727.6 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… own choice. Their exclusion from heaven is voluntary with themselves, and just and merciful on the part of God.” 48) The Great Controversy, 542. 49) The Great Controversy …
6506 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 755.2 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… of choice and the freedom of the human will, Temple refers to man’s “response to and communion with the eternal God, which makes these capable of receiving …
6507 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 759 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… wrong choice. Page 759
6508 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 762.7 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
Thus each soul, endowed with the power of sovereign choice, has, according to Bishop Gore, “the awful capacity to make or destroy himself.” These were Dean Bennett’s recorded positions on the nature and destiny of man.41) Ibid.
6509 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 765 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
3. WRONG CHOICE LEADS TO DESTRUCTION
6510 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 765.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… wrong choice, Matthews holds, is destruction: “But we shall be giving only a mythological version of the truth if we think of God as dealing out destruction …
6511 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 788.3 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… “ultimate choice.” It is in this setting that Findlay says:
6512 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 792.2 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
Professor Baillie thus comes to the question of choice between two “alternatives”—namely, innate or “conditional” immortality—and makes this important statement:
6513 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 792.3 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… this choice is likely to be determined by our judgment on a single issue. The conditionalist holds that complete annihilation is the natural fate of souls …
6514 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 818.2 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… . The choice is set before man here and now. Though the announcement of impending judgment may not at first sight appear to be ‘good news,’ yet it is integral to …
6515 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 822.6 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
After referring to man’s sovereign freedom and power of choice and the fateful results of that choice, Dr. Snaith says concerning the destiny of the incorrigibly wicked:
6516 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 830.3 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… man’s choice,” Dr. Vine stresses the fact that man is an “integrated unit”—“from his birth to his death man is a natural unit.” He was brought into being “by integrating …
6517 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 882.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… of choice, and knew the difference between what is “morally good” and “morally evil.” Man is “therefore as different from the lower animals which preceded him …
6518 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 885.5 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… evil choice in his will. Indeed it is impossible to conceive of the entrance of moral evil into God’s creation apart from the existence of such a personality …
6519 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 885.6 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
Suggesting that the serpent may have appeared to Eve as a “shining angel,” and conversed in that form, Atkinson remarks concerning the tempter’s question, and Adam and Eve’s “wrong moral choice”
6520 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 887.2 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… moral choice. They sold themselves to do evil, became guilty before God and separate from His fellowship, and justly deserving of eternal death. But having …