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401 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 308.2 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
Storrs’s purpose in his Sax Sermons is set forth in the subtitle—to present an answer to the question “Is There Immortality in Sin and Suffering?” Sermon I states the question specifically.
402 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 308.3 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… .” 34) Storrs Six Sermons p. 21.
403 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 308.4 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… this Storrs plunges into the usual “arguments in proof of man’s immortality” such as that the soul is “indestructible, and therefore immortal” Declaring that …
404 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 309.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
“there is no truth in the oft repeated assertion that all nations and people have believed in man’s immortality, or an endless conscious survivance of a fancied entity called the soul.” 38) Storrs op cit., p. 27.
405 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 309.2 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
Storrs further declares: “The attempt to prove the immortality of the soul, from its supposed indestructibility, is without force or truth, and with it falls …
406 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 309.3 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
Storrs next turns to the Biblical evidence on “eternal,” “Immortal,” and “immortality,” making the usual Conditionalist argument, and concludes with:40) Ibid., pp. 38-43.
407 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 309.5 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… :4 ”) Storrs states that the Old Serpent— “commenced his attack on our race by saying they should ‘not surely die,’ if they did disobey God. He was successful in that …
408 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 309.6 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… sin!” Storrs then comments: “This doctrine has kept more away from God, and driven them into infidelity, than any other doctrine that was ever promulgated I am …
409 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 310.4 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
Storrs then turns to the “terms employed to denote the punishment of the wicked“: “Perish—Utterly perish—Utterly consumed with terrors—Destroy—Destroyed …
410 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 310.5 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… .” Then Storrs states, concerning John 3:16 : “Here perishing and life are put in opposition, and the term perish is explained by the apostle himself, to mean death …
411 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 310.6 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
Clearly, perishing is to cease to exist. Storrs next answers stock objections in the usual Conditionalist fashion, maintaining that the fate of the wicked is “deprivation of life.” His “Concluding Remarks” are definitive:50) Ibid., p. 58.
412 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 311.2 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
Storrs adds that sinful men are afflicted with a “fatal disease” (sin), and that it— “will result in death, or in utter extinction of conscious being, unless it is …
413 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 311.3 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… reply Storrs cites church historian Mosheim, who declares that in the “third century” some of the Fathers “degenerated much from primitive simplicity,” and …
414 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 311.5 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… views, Storrs states that “truth lies scattered among all denominations; none of them have the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. Some have more than others …
415 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 312.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… before?” Storrs replies that he lays “no claim to being the discoverer of it.” Citing other Conditionalists before him by name, he comes to Henry Grew’s tract …
416 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 312.3 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
In Sermon VI Storrs brings his series to a close, stressing again that—
417 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 313 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
VI. Fitch—Storrs’s First Ministerial Convert to Conditionalism
418 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 313.5 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… Storrs, becoming Storrs’s first ministerial convert to Conditional Immortality. On January 25, 1844, Fitch wrote to Storrs as follows: “Dear Br. Storrs:—As you …
419 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 314.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… to Storrs that he was “fully convinced” and “could no longer withhold” its proclamation without “displeasing my blessed Lord and Master.” He was more concerned …
420 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 314.2 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… George Storrs, and wrote a treatise titled Immortality the Gift of God through Jesus Christ (1842). The purpose and scope of the treatise is set forth in the …