Immortality Only Through Christ
If this life is, through God, only in Christ and those who are His, as the Bible expressly declares, it therefore certainly follows that those out of Christ do not possess it. "Ye will not come to Me [says Jesus], that ye might have life." "He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life; and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life." John 3:36. What then becomes of the doctrine of man's immortal soul, or that entity within man which possesses indestructibility, which will live on and on through endless eons of joy or misery? If the essential part of man is capable of living of itself a life without end, it possesses eternal life wherever it may exist; it is either eternal life in blessedness or eternal life in misery. And if this be the case with the natural man, the words of Christ are meaningless. Modern theology claims that man has life in himself, that he is fated to live an endless life whether he will or not. The Bible declares that man is mortal; that immortality and eternal life are gifts of God; that if man is to possess this life at all, it must be through faith in Christ. The former doctrine is based upon that first falsehood, "Ye shall not surely die;" the latter is based upon the words of divine Inspiration. Jesus Christ is not only the Way and the Truth, He is also the Life; and he that hath the Son, hath the life; but he that hath not the Son hath not the life.