Conditional Immortality and Eternal Punishment
By Editor
THE Christian Union of August 1, in speaking of Orthodoxy, says: "Dr. Dale, of England, late lecturer at Yale Theological Seminary, is orthodox, and he believes in conditional immortality, not in eternal punishment. Now it is not the orthodoxy of Dr. Dale that we question, but the statement of the Christian Union. If a man believes in conditional immortality, that is, that those who do not accept of Christ will never possess it, he certainly does believe in eternal punishment. He may not believe in eternal torment, or eternal punishing, but he believes in eternal death; and as death is the wages of sin, and as there will be no resurrection from that death, it is therefore eternal death, or, eternal punishment. And this is in harmony with another scripture statement, "Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction." Those who believe in conditional immortality are the only ones who do believe in scriptural eternal punishment.