Mortal or Immortal

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Apr 28, 1909

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 36, No. 17.

Mortal or Immortal

Would we not reasonably expect that if man were immortal, we would find a revelation of it in the Bible — God's revealed will concerning men? He is in that word called "mortal," but never once is "immortality" predicted of humanity or even assumed. We may search that wonderful Book from Genesis to Revelation, and the one long, sad record is that the children of humanity have died. On the other hand, we are expressly told that "God only hath immortality," a blessed boon which He proposes to give to man, but not until character is assured and Christ shall come the second time; and then "this mortal shall put on immortality, and this corruptible shall put on incorruption."