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14681 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 269.6 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

… an argument and is unworthy of the name of sound exegesis. The literalistic “problem” of the passage collapses under the weight of its own inconsistencies …

14682 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 280.2 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

… legitimate argument can be made on the Position of the comma in Luke 23:43. Rather, it is to be placed where it comports with the demands of Scripture.1) The dating …

14683 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 312.3 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

… the arguments in favor of Pauline authorship as more weighty than those for all other candidates put together.

14684 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 443.3 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

… Augustine’s argument that if we do not make aionios kolasis mean endless punishing, we have no assurance that the aionios zoe that follows means endless …

14685 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 500.3 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

… the argument of man’s inner aspirations. The fact that the vast majority once believed the world to be flat did not make it so. Universal hunger for Immortality …

14686 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 563 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

5. THREE MAIN ARGUMENTS OF INDEFEASIBLE IMMORTALITY

14687 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 563.2 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

We may summarize Plato’s three main arguments for the immortality of the soul as the postulates of:

14688 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 569.4 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

… his arguments chiefly to justify his beliefs. And there is no avoiding recognition of the fact that he supports his views as concerns the judgment by recourse …

14689 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 571.2 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

… cosmological argument based on the belief that all motion requires a “good soul” as its source. The existence of a second maleficent world-soul, identified …

14690 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 573 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO: Pagan Philosophy’s Basic Arguments for Immortal-Soulism

14692 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 577.6 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

Cebes points out the logical and inevitable conclusion to this immortality argument in these words:

14693 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 578.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

Recollection of former existences is thus an added argument that is used.

14694 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 579.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

… that argument was final.25) Ibid., p. 26. 26) Ibid., p. 27.

14695 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 579.6 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

The argument is next presented that “after a man is dead, the visible part of him”—the “body,” or “corpse”—is subject, in due time, to “dissolution and decomposition …

14696 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 581 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

15. SOUL AS INSTRUMENTAL “HARMONY” ARGUMENT DISMISSED

14697 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 581.2 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

… ’ summarizing argument:43) Ibid., pp. 36, 37. 44) Ibid., p. 43.

14698 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 582.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

This argument quashed the harmony contention with Socrates’ companions. The harmony obviously could not exist before the instrument (92). 46) Ibid., pp. 43, 44.

14699 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 582.2 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

… ) closing argument is this: Since “the soul is immortal” (106), it is therefore “imperishable.” This brought the candid admission from Cebes: “Beyond all question …

14700 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 585.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

… the argument appearing in Lazes 893-896. But in Phaedrus the soul is set forth as a mystical composite, having higher and lower elements, whereas in the Phaedo …