p. 29 | Sodom in the Judgment by R. F. C.

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 26, 1865

Sodom in the Judgment.

By R. F. C.

THERE are some who hold the doctrine of unconsciousness in death, and also deny the resurrection of the wicked. If there is to be no resurrection of the wicked, they can have no interest at stake in a future judgment. Yet our Saviour says, "And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear you, when ye depart thence, shake off the dust under your feet for a testimony against them. Verily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment, than for that city." Mark vi, 11.

From this testimony and a similar one, in Matt. xi, 20-24, we learn that Sodom and Gomorrah, Tyre and Sidon, Chorazin, Bethsaida and Capernaum, were to be brought to an account for their evil deeds, at a future judgment, and that the punishment awarded to those more ancient and less enlightened cities would be more tolerable, or less severe, than that of those who had been favored with the preaching of Christ and his apostles. Can this be reconciled with the non-resurrection theory, without admitting a conscious soul-entity separate from the body? R. F. C.