Articles focus on conditional immortality.
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The second coming of Jesus Christ is all that we are waiting for. So many of us are in the dark when it comes to the coming of our LORD. How does it play out? When will be the apocalypse? And how will the battle of Armageddon look like? How will the end times begin? …
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Absent from the Body – Present with the LORD 2 Corinthians 5:8 Text in question: 2 Corinthians 5:8 “We are confident, yes, well pleased rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord.” Proof texts: 1 Corinthians 15:51–54 The apostle Paul appears to tell us here that something better than our current …
Brings up the next question. What is a soul and can a soul die? There are expressions about the immortal soul, they’ve gone to heaven, they are in purgatory, or the worst…they may be in hell. The Bible says the soul is not immortal. Ezekiel 18:4, “The soul that sins-” Shall what? “The soul that …
Abaddon – A Hebrew word for destruction. It is used in parallels for both Sheol (the intermediate state) and Qever (the grave). Both are places of destruction, not life. Job 26:6; 28:22; 31:12; Psa. 88:11; Prov. 15:11; 27:20. The name of the angel of the bottomless pit (Rev. 9:11). abyss – A Greek work for …
Immortality Part 6 – Conditionalist: Word List for Further Study Read More »
Matthew 10:28 is a watershed text. It serves as a rope, and on either side of the rope is a group of well-meaning Christians tugging over the issue of human nature and destiny. On the one side are those who teach innate immortality. These draw support from Matthew 10:28a, where Jesus compares the body, which …
By: Dr. Glenn Andrew Peoples “Conditional Immortality” is an unfortunately cumbersome piece of jargon that refers to a fairly simple belief: That human beings are mortal, and can only receive immortality on the condition that God gives it to them as a gift through faith in Jesus Christ. It begins with an understanding of the nature …
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Some recent online discussions have cantered around what is meant by the term “conditional immortality” or its synonym “conditionalism.” These are essentially anthropological terms. They describe the nature of humanity as the Bible represents it. They affirm that human beings have the potential to become immortal, but that immortality is not innate: it is not …
As we have seen in the previous articles, the dead do not have consciousness of any kind; they know nothing and they feel nothing. People who die do not go to heaven or hell where they live on in a state of consciousness. They go to the grave where their bodies disintegrate because the life …
Immortality Part 2 – How are Immortal-soul Proof-test to be Interpreted? Read More »
1. Gen. 15:15—“Thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace.” This did not mean go to heaven, for Abram’s fathers were idolaters, hence were not in heaven on any supposition. Genesis 49:29 explains this passage. It reads: And he charged them, and said unto them, ‘I am to be gathered unto my people, bury me …
Immortality – Part 1: Scripture Used for Immortality of the Soul Ideology Read More »
Construction of a Soul For a moment here let’s go back to the book of Genesis where God created man. “And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.” (Gen. 2:7). It is very important for us …
