Conditional Immortality
The Basic Case for Conditional Immortality
1. ET & UR don’t fit with the Biblical data
2. Only God is immortal by nature
3. Immortality is a gift found only ‘in Christ’
4. The Bible describes an ‘end’ to the wicked
Top 16 Verses
Genesis 2:17
But you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it you will surely die.
Psalm 21:9
At the time of your appearing you will make them like a fiery furnace. In his wrath the LORD will swallow them up, and his fire will consume them.
Proverbs 12:28
In the way of righteousness there is life; along that path is immortality.
Proverbs 24:20
For the evil man has no future hope, and the lamp of the wicked will be snuffed out.
1 Timothy 6:15-16
The King of kings and Lord of lords, who alone is immortal
Ezekiel 18:4
The soul who sins is the one who will die
Matthew 10:28
Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather, be afraid of the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell.
Luke 13:3
I tell you, no! But unless you repent, you too will all perish.
John 3:16
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
Romans 2:7
To those who by persistence in doing good seek glory, honor and immortality, he will give eternal life.
Romans 6:23
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
1 Corinthians 15:53
For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality.
Philippians 3:18-19
Many live as enemies of the cross of Christ. Their destiny is destruction
2 Thessalonians 1:9
They will be punished with everlasting destruction and shut out from the presence of the Lord and from the majesty of his power
1 John 5:11-12
And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life.
Revelation 21:8
But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars—their place will be in the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death
What are the Dangers of this Doctrine?
1. ET & UR don’t fit with the Biblical data
2. Only God is immortal by nature
3. Immortality is a gift found only ‘in Christ’
4. The Bible describes an ‘end’ to the wicked
Top 16 Verses
Genesis 2:17
But you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it you will surely die.
Psalm 21:9
At the time of your appearing you will make them like a fiery furnace. In his wrath the LORD will swallow them up, and his fire will consume them.
Proverbs 12:28
In the way of righteousness there is life; along that path is immortality.
Proverbs 24:20
For the evil man has no future hope, and the lamp of the wicked will be snuffed out.
1 Timothy 6:15-16
The King of kings and Lord of lords, who alone is immortal
Ezekiel 18:4
The soul who sins is the one who will die
Matthew 10:28
Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather, be afraid of the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell.
Luke 13:3
I tell you, no! But unless you repent, you too will all perish.
John 3:16
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
Romans 2:7
To those who by persistence in doing good seek glory, honor and immortality, he will give eternal life.
Romans 6:23
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
1 Corinthians 15:53
For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality.
Philippians 3:18-19
Many live as enemies of the cross of Christ. Their destiny is destruction
2 Thessalonians 1:9
They will be punished with everlasting destruction and shut out from the presence of the Lord and from the majesty of his power
1 John 5:11-12
And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life.
Revelation 21:8
But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars—their place will be in the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death
What are the Dangers of this Doctrine?
posted by matthew at 3:29 PM
1 Comments:
The dangers of conditional immortality? That we realise that nothing is us is immortal and we have to completely trust God to remember us :-) We are but dust. Formed from the dust
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