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Immortality! O, blessed, glorious hope! This mortal must put on immortality! And beware, lest, you adopt the term immortality from philosophy rather than from Scripture, and thus deprive it of all the blessed glory for the denotation of which it is used exclusively in Holy Writ. Alas! this has been,
Rev. Justin Smidstra, pastor of First Protestant Reformed Church in Holland, Michigan "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
Immortality signifies that which cannot be subject to death and is applicable in the first place only to God, who only hath immortality, (I Tim. 6:16) and to them who by His grace triumph over death. It was only after His resurrection that the apostle could say of Christ, that death had no more d
5 By using the term 'physical immortality' I am distinguishing from a common usage of the term "immortality" in the New Testament when this word appears in isolation, such as in I Timothy 6:16. In these contexts it is clear that the inspired author refers to both physical and spiritual immortality,
It may not be superfluous to insert a paragraph here about the so-called "immortality of the soul." Above I spoke of "the heresy" that man's soul is immortal. And a heresy it certainly is, for the which there is no item of proof in the Word of God; which, on the contrary is condemned by Scripture th
Then there is the word "to perish," which does not at all mean to put out of existence; for one who is rendered extinct cannot then enter into peace. "But "the righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart, and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from
Eternal life is resurrection life and cannot possibly be realized except through the death and resurrection of the Son of God. Since it is based on the righteousness of Christ, it is everlasting. It can never be lost therefore. We as believers, then, even now in principle, enjoy the beginning of eve
Jesus Christ first accomplished and entered into immortal life for man by His resurrection from the dead. "Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him" (Rom. 6:9). The life into which God raised Jesus Christ was a new kind of life for man, a life never lived
Though his body will weaken and crumble, though he is very really mortal, still he is eternal. At this conception, the temporal was touched by the heavenly, the temporary by the eternal and never can he walk except toward glory. He is the Church of God, the diadem of Christ. He is marching to heaven
When we get older we’ll think of immortality, of the things of the hereafter”. The thing is that perhaps the time will never come when they call themselves old. Thought never comes of the fact that we are given but one short life to remember our Creator, Eccl. 12. Our life may well be compared to a