Immortality Only through Christ

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Dec 8, 1898

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 24, No. 49.

Immortality Only through Christ.

When men contend that man is an immortal being, they logically assume that he can not die. This assumption carries with it the conclusion that Christ, when He became a man, could not die, and therefore did not. Then if He did not die, He did not make an atonement for sin; for “the wages of sin is death.” 1 John 3:4. Now this is just what the enemy of souls would like to have men believe, and this is the reason he has so persistently instilled into the minds of men the false idea that they are immortal. He overcame Eve with that falsehood, “Thou shalt not surely die,” and has found it a capital snare ever since for those who do not have implicit faith in the plain Word of God. But man is not immortal (Job 4:17; 1 Cor. 15:22, 53, 54; 1 Tim. 6:15, 16); for “the soul that sinneth, it shall die” (Eze. 18:4, 20), and “all have sinned” (Rom. 3:23). And Jesus Christ did die (Acts 3:14, 15; 1 Cor. 15:3; Heb. 2:9, 14), and He did make an atonement for sin (Rom. 5:6-12, 18, 19). “To Him give all the prophets witness, that through His name whosoever believeth in Him shall receive remission of sins.” Acts 10:43.