The Only Proof of Immortality

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, Cal. · Dec 23, 1889

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 15, No. 49.

The Only Proof of Immortality

THE Disciple, a monthly publication of San Francisco, says: "Where the Bible speaks we speak; and where the Bible is silent we are silent. We state our doctrines in the exact words of sacred Scripture." But the same issue has an article on "Immortality," in which not one word of Scripture evidence is given, but instead "intuitions," "universal instincts," "universal longings," "theistic evolution" (whatever that may be), and finally on our unconscious co-ordination of the whole aggregate of our experience; "not on any one train of reasoning, but on the converging of all our lines of thought toward one center."

And this is about all the proof men have of the present immortality of man. But man's intuitions and longings are too unsatisfactory for a foundation. There is one proof hinted at by the writer which is all-sufficient, and that is faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and the resurrection from the dead. On this alone can men rest with assurance. 1 Cor. 15: 51-55; 2 Tim. 1:10; Col. 3:3.