p. 2 | 2201.-Mortal or Immortal by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA · Sep 4, 1907

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 33, No. 36.

2201.—Mortal or Immortal.

By Editor

(1) Was man or angel created mortal or immortal? If immortal, when did man lose that condition? (2) "This mortal shall have put on immortality." 1 Cor. 15:54. When is this condition bestowed upon man and angels? G. W. B.

1. Man was created neither mortal nor immortal, but a candidate for immortality. God certainly did not create a dying man or one subject to death. He certainly did not create an immortal being whose character was untested. Man was created so that he could become immortal by perfecting an incorruptible character. He became mortal when he sinned.

2. Man in Christ will be made immortal at the last trump, when Christ shall come. See 1 Thess. 4:15, 16. The righteous dead are raised immortal and the living righteous changed. God gives the incorruptible character an incorruptible body. It was bestowed upon angels, if it has yet been bestowed when they passed the great test of character and proved true to God.