Immortality
Rev. Justin Smidstra examines the biblical doctrine of immortality, contrasting fallen humanity's vain pursuit of endless life with the true immortality that belongs to God alone and is graciously given to the elect through Christ. Drawing on passages from 1 Timothy and Hebrews, he expounds immortality as deathlessness and imperishability—not mere endless existence but the complete separation from decay and corruption that characterizes the eternal triune God.
"It is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment" (Heb. 9:27). Unbelieving man suppresses this knowledge. But he can never shake off the fear of death. More than anything, man wants to live, and to keep living forever. Fallen man dreams of immortality. Not true immortality, but endless life after the imaginations of his own heart. In every age he chases after this dream. He looks to all sorts of things to lengthen his days and deliver him from death: idol gods, a mythical...
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