p. 16 | A Wrong Conclusion by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Nov 25, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 46.

A Wrong Conclusion.

By Editor

Says the Individual of November 4:—

"The efforts of the annihilationists to do away with 'the resurrection of judgment' or condemnation (more properly) and go back of the essential influence of resurrection on the body—in making it by the very act of raising it up an eternally existing entity—are futile. They have been driven lately to the utter denial of resurrection to the lost—'the dead' of the condemnatory judgment. They must do this, or accept the fact that resurrection implies eternity to all raised."

By "annihilationists," we take it, is meant those who believe that the wages of sin is death, extinction of existence. There is a class who hold "to the utter denial of resurrection to the lost," but "they have not been driven lately" to that unless by lately is included at least a quarter century. It is bald assumption to declare that the resurrection of the body makes it "an eternally existing entity." The theory has no basis in Scripture. The Word declares that "there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust." Acts 24:15. The latter class will be raised to condemnation. John 5:29. The Scriptures expressly tell us what that condemnation is, death, the second death, everlasting destruction, etc. See Rom. 6:23; 2 Thess. 1:7-9; Rev. 20:14, 15; Mal. 4:1.