Immortality Through Christ Alone
By Editor
An article against our views of "immortality through Christ alone," is before us, in which the writer says:— "These false teachers further say that life and immortality did not exist before Christ brought it to light; but the very words which they quote meet their own error. For if life and immortality (incorruptibility) did not exist before, then it follows that there was nothing of it to be brought to light by the gospel." That is to say that Jesus Christ did not come to bring to light and offer to us something which we did not possess, and could not obtain without him, but only to tell us of something which we possessed already! and which the most incorrigible sinner also possesses. A wonderful boon, indeed, is the gospel, according to such teaching. Immortality is brought to light in the gospel, and we shall receive it as a gospel benefit "when Christ who is our life shall appear," at the resurrection of the just, provided that we seek for it by patient continuance in well-doing. Rom. 2:7. They who claim that the immortality of man does not depend upon our acceptance of the gospel, rob Christ of his chief glory.