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| unconditional immortality: Life in Christ William Robert West, 2015-09-29 What do you believe about souls? There are many very different doctrines taught in the world today concerning souls that are believed to be in all humans. By most a soul is believed to be something that is wholly apart from the person a soul is in; that a soul is something that is that is believed to be complete in its self without the person; it will live after the person it is in is dead; it is believed that a soul will exist forever without the person; it will never be dead; therefore, a soul cannot be resurrected from the dead. It is believed that a soul must live someplace forever, and it will live either in Heaven or Hell even if there is no resurrection. The doctrine of unconditional immortality of a deathless soul being in a person, and that soul leaving that person at the death of the person makes it impossible for Christ to have give His life to save that soul from death; if a soul had immortality it would already have life and could never not have life; all Christ could do is give it a reward or punish it. |
| unconditional immortality: Rethinking Hell Joshua W Anderson, Christopher M Date, Gregory G Stump, 2014-11-27 Many Christians believe that people who are not saved before they die will be punished in hell forever. But is this what the Bible truly teaches? Do Christians need to rethink their understanding of hell? In the late twentieth century, a growing number of theologians, biblical scholars, and philosophers began to reject the traditional doctrine of eternal conscious torment in hell in favour of a minority theological perspective called conditional immortality. This view contends that the unsaved are resurrected to face divine judgment, just as Christians have always believed. However, due to the fact that immortality is only given to those who are in Christ, the unsaved do not exist forever in hell. Instead, they face the punishment of the 'second death' -an end to their conscious existence. This volume brings together excerpts from a variety of well-respected evangelical thinkers, including John Stott, John Wenham, and E. Earle Ellis, as they articulate the biblical, theological, and philosophical arguments for conditionalism. These readings will give thoughtful Christians strong evidence that there are indeed compelling reasons for rethinking hell. |
| unconditional immortality: Unconditional Immortality William Robert West, 2008-03 UNCONDITIONAL IMMORTALITY AND THE RESURRECTION ARE TWO VERY DIFFERENT GOSPELS Galatians 1:6-9: There is a dividing line between unconditional immortality and conditional immortality so sharp that two are completely different Gospels as far apart as night and day. Both cannot be true. One is a delusion [2 Thessalonians 2:11] A working of error [American Standard Version]. Do you believe a lie? Unconditional immortality is very different from anything preached in Paul's day [Galatians 1:6]. It takes away a need for the death of Christ, and the need of the resurrection. |
| unconditional immortality: A Resurrection to Immortality William Robert West, 2011-04-14 Life is the most important possession we have. Without it, there is nothing. Only by the resurrection at the second coming of Christ will anyone have life after death. After the resurrection, the fate of those who are in Christ: [1] Eternal life [Romans 6:23] [2]Shall inherit eternal life [Matthew 19:29] [3] After the judgment they shall go away into eternal life [Matthew 25:46] [4] Will have eternal life [John 3:5] [5] Christ will raise them up on the last day [John 6:40] [6] Will be immortal after the resurrection [1 Corinthians 15:5156] [7] Will have incorruption [1 Corinthians 15:42] [8] Will have glory [1 Corinthians 15:43] [9] Will be like Christ We shall be like him; for we shall see him even as he is [1 John 3:2] [10] Are heirs according to the hope of eternal life [Titus 3:7] [11] Will have a spiritual body [1 Corinthians 15:44] [12] And as we have borne the image of the earthly (The earthly flesh and blood body of Adam was made to live on this earth but it cannot inherit the kingdom of God 1 Corinthians 15:50), we shall also bear the image of the heavenly (Shall be like the spiritual body of Christ for life in Heaven) [1 Corinthians 15:4756] [13] Will never perish [John 10:28] [14] Forever with the Lord [1 Thessalonians 4:17] [15] Many mansions in my father's house: In my Father's house (Who is in Heaven, Matthew 5:16; 5:45; 5:48; 6:1; 6:9; 7:21; 10:3233) are many mansions...I go to prepare a place for you. |
| unconditional immortality: Immortality in Christ; or Eternal Death. Being two lectures ... in reply to the Rev. A. P. Linton, M.A., and the Rev. A. M. Symington, B.A., etc afterwards SMITH-WARLEIGH SMITH (Henry), 1875 |
| unconditional immortality: And Was Made Man Robin Le Poidevin, 2023 The idea that God became human in Christ seems paradoxical: surely nothing can be both divine and human? Robin Le Poidevin deploys the resources of contemporary metaphysics to show how even the apparently unchangeable aspects of the divine might be relinquished by God the Son. |
| unconditional immortality: The Perishing Soul; Or, The Scriptural Doctrine of the Destruction of Sinners. With a View of Ancient Jewish Opinion and Christian Belief During the First and Second Centuries J. M. Denniston, 1874 |
| unconditional immortality: The Perishing Soul J. Denniston, 2023-12-31 Reprint of the original, first published in 1874. |
| unconditional immortality: The perishing soul according to Scripture; with reference also to ancient Jewish belief, and the Christian writings of the first two centuries J M. Denniston, 1874 |
| unconditional immortality: A Catholic Reading Guide to Conditional Immortality Robert Wild, 2016-10-21 Like many other people, the long tradition about hell has been a source of serious confusion and distress for me. Over the past six years or so I was relieved to discover two other alternatives that are also part of the Christian tradition, though less prominent--universalism and the subject of the present book, conditional immortality. Universalism--that everyone would eventually be saved--did not, in the final analysis, seem to really come to grips with the overwhelming scriptural testimony that some kind of radical fateful decision is possible to people. Conditional immortality--that people who absolutely refuse God's plan for them will be taken out of existence--seems to me the best scriptural understanding of what the Lord meant by losing one's soul--not everlasting punishment but the withdrawal of existence. This book is an attempt to explain this theological theory. It is not presented as a definite dogma or teaching of the church, but as one of the possible results of a persistent and irrevocable decision against God. |
| unconditional immortality: What Wondrous Love David H. Thiele, 2014 What Wondrous Love delves into the controversial topic of unconditional love, examining the history of the concept, its infiltration into the theology of the church, and its dangerous effects. Although some may feel that author David Thiele downplays God's love, in reality he points readers to a truer understanding of God's love and His nature as revealed in Scripture and expounded upon in the Spirit of Prophecy, reminding all that Jesus came to this world to fulfill every condition of the righteous law of love. In so doing, we are granted the opportunity to overcome sin as Christ did and be reunited with our heavenly Father when Christ returns - What Wondrous Love, indeed!--Page 4 of cover. |
| unconditional immortality: Christianity and the Problem of Evil Larry Lacy, 2021-12-16 This book deals with the problem of evil that the Christian faith faces. Is the Christian faith (which affirms that there exists a God who is omniscient, omnipotent, and perfectly good) improbable, given the horrendous evils encountered by some in this life; and is the Christian faith improbable, given the evils the Christian faith affirms for some in the age to come--eternal judgment and eternal punishment? Some reflective persons see the problem of these eschatological evils as the most serious challenge to the reasonableness of the Christian faith. I argue that once we become clear about what the New Testament teaches about each of these eschatological evils, a way is opened up to show that it is not improbable for us that each of these teachings of the New Testament is fully consistent with the perfect goodness of God. I then argue that the doctrines of eternal judgment and eternal punishment, properly understood, open up an important resource for dealing with the problem that the grave evils of this life create for the Christian doctrine of the omniscience, omnipotence, and perfect goodness of God. |
| unconditional immortality: Prosthetic Immortalities Adam R Rosenthal, 2024-09-17 Examining the links between today’s ideas of radical life extension and age-old notions of immortality From Plato’s notion of generation to Derrida’s concept of survival to such modern phenomena as anti-aging treatments, cryogenics, cloning, and whole-brain uploads, Adam Rosenthal’s Prosthetic Immortalities shows how the dream of indefinite life has always been a technological one: a matter of prosthesis. He argues that every biological instance of perpetual life, from one-celled organisms to rejuvenating jellyfish to Henrietta Lacks’s “immortal” cancer cells, always results in the transformation of the original being. There can, therefore, be no certainty of immortality. Yet, because finite mortal life is already marked by difference, division, and change, as Rosenthal concludes: “the problem of immortality will not cease to haunt us.” Prosthetic Immortalities examines the persistence of humans’ aspirations of deathlessness, showing that the link between immortalization and prostheticization is not unique to a single period but is, rather, a ubiquitous element of the discourse of immortality, encompassing both modern technoscientific efforts and religious discourses of an afterlife. Rosenthal asks to what extent the emergence of a virtual, posited, immortal presence follows from the tenets of empirical science—and not simply from the discourse of biology but also, and more radically still, from biological organization itself. Rosenthal ultimately argues that the discovery of biological immortals—lifeforms that naturally have indefinitely long lifespans, such as cancer cells and bacteria—present novel conceptual difficulties for traditional philosophical approaches to mortality and selfhood, asking whether it is life itself that first births immortalizing prostheses. |
| unconditional immortality: Will Sin and Suffering be everlasting? Notes of a calm inquiry as to the truth of a commonly taught doctrine Joseph STRATFORD, 1869 |
| unconditional immortality: The Thiselton Companion to Christian Theology Anthony C. Thiselton, 2015-02-06 Covering everything from Abba to Zwingli, The Thiselton Companion to Christian Theology offers a comprehensive account of a wide sweep of topics and thinkers in Christian theology. Written entirely by eminent scholar Anthony Thiselton, the book features a coherence lacking in most multiauthored volumes. Drawing on his encyclopedic knowledge, gained from fifty-plus years of study and teaching, Thiselton provides some six hundred articles on various aspects of theology throughout the centuries. The entries comprise both short descriptive surveys and longer essays of original assessment on central theological topics -- such as atonement, Christology, God, and Holy Spirit -- and on such theologians as Aquinas, Augustine, Barth, Calvin, Kng, Luther, Moltmann, and Pannenberg. The book also includes a helpful time chart dating all of the theologians discussed and highlighting key events in Christian history; select reading suggestions conclude each of the longer entries. Equally valuable for research and teaching, The Thiselton Companion to Christian Theology will be a go-to reference for pastors, students, teachers, and theologians everywhere. |
| unconditional immortality: A Reply to the Rev. J. Kork's Pamphlet, entitled "The Warning, or the Future Punishment of the Impenitent considered." By W. G. M. William Glen MONCRIEFF, 1849 |
| unconditional immortality: The Rainbow, a magazine of Christian literature , 1877 |
| unconditional immortality: Light , 1893 |
| unconditional immortality: Epicurus and the Singularity of Death David B. Suits, 2020-02-06 In his Letter to Menoeceus, the ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus states that 'death is nothing to us'. Few philosophers then or since have agreed with his controversial argument, upholding instead that death constitutes a deprivation and is therefore to be feared. Diverging from the current trend and sparking fresh debate, this book provides an imaginative defense of the Epicurean view of death. Drawing on Epicurus's Principal Doctrines, Lucretius's De Rerum Natura and Philodemus's De Morte, David Suits argues that the usual concepts of harm, loss and suffering no longer apply in death, thus showing how the deprivation view is flawed. He also applies Epicurean reasoning to key issues in applied ethics in order to dispute the claim that there can be a right to life, to defend egoistic friendship, and to consider how Epicureanism might handle wills and life insurance. By championing the Epicurean perspective, this book makes a valuable contribution to the contemporary philosophical debate about death. |
| unconditional immortality: Dialogues on Future Punishment William Glen Moncrieff, 1848 |
| unconditional immortality: The Expositor , 1911 |
| unconditional immortality: Chasing Immortality in World Religions Deborah M. Coulter-Harris, 2016-07-25 Humans have been chasing immortality since the beginning of history, seeking answers to sickness and aging, death and the afterlife, and questioning the human condition. Analyzing ideas from ancient Sumer, Egypt, Greece and India, as well as the Abrahamic religions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, this study explores how early religious models influenced later beliefs about immortality, the afterlife, the human soul, resurrection, and reward and punishment. The author highlights shared teachings among the most influential religions and philosophies, concluding that humankind has not substantially changed its conceptions of immortality in 6,000 years. This continuity of belief may be due to chromosomal memory and cultural inheritance, or may represent a fundamental way of conceptualizing the afterlife to cope with mortality. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here. |
| unconditional immortality: The Scripture Doctrine of Future Punishment Henry Hamlet Dobney, 1856 |
| unconditional immortality: On the Scripture Doctrine of Future Punishment Henry Hamlet Dobney, 1850 |
| unconditional immortality: The Indian Evangelical Review , 1879 |
| unconditional immortality: Theological works John Howard Hinton (the Elder.), 1864 |
| unconditional immortality: Christianity and False Evolutionism Alvin Sylvester Zerbe, 1925 |
| unconditional immortality: The Theological Works of the Rev. John Howard Hinton ...: Systematic and controversial divinity John Howard Hinton, 1864 |
| unconditional immortality: The Problem of Immortality Emmanuel Pétavel-Olliff, 1892 |
| unconditional immortality: Notes of lectures on future punishment Henry Hamlet Dobney, 1844 |
| unconditional immortality: New Englander and Yale Review Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight, 1879 |
| unconditional immortality: Science and Christianity J. B. Stump, 2016-09-08 Science and Christianity is an accessible, engaging introduction to topics at the intersection of science and Christian theology. A philosophically orientated treatment that introduces the relationship of science to Christianity and explores to what extent the findings of science affect traditional Christian theology Addresses important theological topics in light of contemporary science, including divine action, the problem of natural evil, and eschatology Historically oriented chapters and chapters covering methodological principles for both science and theology provide the reader with a strong foundational understanding of the issues Includes feature boxes highlighting quotations, biographies of major scientists and theologians, key terms, and other helpful information Issues are presented as fairly and objectively as possible, with strengths and weaknesses of particular interpretations fully discussed |
| unconditional immortality: The Doctrine of Immortality James Herman Whitmore, 1876 |
| unconditional immortality: The Monthly Religious Magazine , 1855 |
| unconditional immortality: The Monthly Religious Magazine and Theological Review Frederic Dan Huntington, Edmund Hamilton Sears, Rufus Ellis, James William Thompson, John Hopkins Morison, 1855 |
| unconditional immortality: The Religious Magazine and Monthly Review , 1855 |
| unconditional immortality: The Church Club Lectures Church Club of Delaware, 1895 |
| unconditional immortality: The Belief in God and Immortality James Henry Leuba, 1916 |
| unconditional immortality: Lucan Matthew Leigh, 1997 The Pharsalia, Lucan's epic on the civil war between Caesar and Pompey, is a document of fundamental importance for students of the history and literature of Rome in the early imperial period. Whether one is a historian of the Republican opposition to Nero, or a literary critic teasing out the ideological implications of intertextuality, it is impossible to ignore this poem. Taking as his guiding theme the unusual prominence of spectacle and spectators in the Pharsalia - the tendency of either the narrator to represent complicity with or apathy towards the action of various charactyers as that of one who watches and does not engage, or of individual characters to celebrate the actions which they undertake by turning them into theatrical displays for others to watch - Dr Leigh demonstrates the importance of this phenomenon for narrative, and intertextual concerns as well as for history and socio-political matters. He shows how Lucan can take devices characteristic of Virgilian narrative and transform them to launch an attack on the Augustan ideology of the Aeneid and produce a savagely Republican anti-Aeneid which represents the civil wars as the death of Rome. By studying the tension between the narrator's impassioned interventions and his characters' often manic zeal to transform civil war into performance, this work discovers a Lucan who is as funny as he is serious, as reflective as he is committed. |
| unconditional immortality: 2017? How to Survive Kevin Staffa, 2008 |
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UNCONDITIONAL Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of UNCONDITIONAL is not conditional or limited : absolute, unqualified. How to use unconditional in a sentence.
UNCONDITIONAL | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary
We demand the immediate and unconditional release of all political prisoners. He got an unconditional release from prison. They have my unconditional support. The shares, which …
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Whether it’s love, support, or surrender, if something’s unconditional it’s absolute and not subject to any special terms or conditions: it’ll happen no matter what else happens. Breaking apart the …
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Unconditional definition: not limited by conditions; absolute.. See examples of UNCONDITIONAL used in a sentence.
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1. without conditions or limitations; total: unconditional surrender. 2. (Mathematics) maths (of an equality) true for all values of the variable: (x+1)>x is an unconditional equality. Collins English …
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Definition of unconditional adjective from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. without any conditions or limits. She gave her children unconditional love. They appealed for the immediate …
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