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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 28, 1868

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 31, No. 20.

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BLASPHEMOUS ARROGANCE.

By J. H. W.

A WRITER in the Banner of Light says:
“If consciously I have lived so long superior to death, I surely am a life-principle, immortal as all other principles are in the universe, and as such in essence, species, and conscious identity, without beginning; for no principle is creatable. If superior to material change, I am an immortal future; I am an immortal past. If I am one, I am both; for eternity is all around, an inseparable unit. A future immortality only is not immortality; for what begins must end! As I live in the living present, essentially the same through all changes, I am past and I am future, ‘without beginning or ending of days.’”
This is the legitimate tendency of the doctrine of the inherent immortality of man. Claiming the eternity that belongs to God alone, they most emphatically endorse the Serpent’s falsehood, “Ye shall not surely die—ye shall be as gods.” J. H. W.