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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 4, 1871

Are We Immortal ?

“God created man in his own image.”—Gen. 1 : 27. God said, “In the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.”—Gen. 2 : 17.

“In this original state man was, indeed, subject to the possibility, but not to the necessity, of dying.”—Prof. J. A. Reubelt.

“Adam forfeited the blessing of immortality.”—Thomas Scott.

Man abideth not: he is like the beasts that perish.—Ps. 49 : 12.

“The immortality of the soul is neither argued nor affirmed in the Old Testament.”—Perowne.

“The doctrine of the immortality of the soul, and the name, are alike unknown to the entire Bible.”—Dr. Olshausen.

“In fact, no such doctrine is revealed to us.”—Abp. Whately.

“The Bible is silent on the point of an absolute and unconditional immortality for all men.”—Rev. H. H. Dobney.

“Search the Bible from beginning to end, and you will nowhere find sinners addressed as immortal beings.”—Rev. Thomas Davis.

“My sheep hear my voice; and I give unto them eternal life: and they shall never perish.”—John 10 : 27, 28. “I am come that they might have life.”—John 10 : 10. To them who seek for immortality God will render eternal life.—Rom. 2 : 6, 7.

“If there be one blessing more than another, which the Scriptures agree in ascribing to Christ as its author, and for which the believer is taught that he is wholly indebted to redemption, it is immortality.”—Rev. Dr. De Burgh.

“Whatever has been created, can certainly be annihilated by the power which created it. The continuance of the soul must therefore depend absolutely on the will of God.”—T. Dwight.

“We are candidates for immortality.”—Prof. Perowne.

“Christianity treats man not as immortal, but as a candidate for immortality.”—Rev. Dr. Parker.

“Let man’s union to God be lasting, and his immortality will be lasting.”—Henry Warleigh.

“Eternal life without the resurrection body, being neither possible nor desirable.”—Reubelt.