The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1
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Froom, LeRoy Edwin
Branson, William HenryCampbell, MichaelChristian, Lewis HarrisonDamsteegt, Pieter GerardDick, Everett NewfonEdwardson, ChristianHowell, Warren EugeneMinisterial Association of the General ConferenceNix, James R.Read, Walter EdwinSpalding, Arthur WhitefieldSpicer, William AmbroseRobinson, Dores Eugene
By LeRoy Edwin Froomen
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Citation: Froom, L. E. (1966) The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1. Review and Herald Publishing Association, Washington, D. C..
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enThe Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1
- Contents- Acknowledgments
- Table of Contents
- Charts
- Dedication
- From Author to Reader
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Prologue
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Part I-Biblical Norm Set Forth in Old Testament-Earliest Comprehensive Evidence on Life, Death, and Destiny
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CHAPTER TWO: Man Created in the Image of God
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CHAPTER THREE: Prohibition, Probation, Temptation, and Fall
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CHAPTER FOUR: The Gospel of Genesis 3:7
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CHAPTER FIVE: The Penalty of Death for Disobedience
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CHAPTER SIX: Redemption in the Period of the Sacrificial Altar
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CHAPTER SEVEN: Eternal Destruction Is Decreed—Doom of Wicked
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CHAPTER EIGHT: Prophetic Witness Concerning the “Last Things”
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CHAPTER NINE: Technical Terms and Usages Preclude Innate Immortality
- An Examination of Nephesh, Neshamah, and Ruach
- I. Must Understand Key Old Testament Terms Through Usage
- II. Meaning of Nephesh in the Hebrew of the Old Testament
- III. Nephesh as Translated in the English Versions
- IV. Ruach and Neshamah Have a Variety of Meanings
- V. Relation of “Spirit” or “Breath” to Life and Death
- VI. Fundamental Distinction Between Man and Beast
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CHAPTER TEN: Weak Arguments Formulate Unworthy Platform
- I. She’ol’s Most Suitable Rendering Is “Gravedom”
- II. Origin of “Gehenna” (Ge Hinnom) Symbol of Final Destruction
- III. Three Supporting Citations Break Down Under Scrutiny
- IV. Isaiah’s Parabolic Taunting Ode on King of Babylon
- V. Ezekiel’s Parabolic Dirge Over Pharaoh of Egypt
- VI. Saul Deceived by Necromancy of Medium of Endor
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Part II-Comprehensive Witness of the New Testament-Consummating Testimony of Christ and the Apostles on the Origin, Nature, and Destiny of Man
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CHAPTER ELEVEN: Christ’s Infallible Testimony on Life Versus Death
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CHAPTER TWELVE: Coordinates All Aspects of Life, Death, and Destiny
- I. Significance of Christ’s Life and Death in Plan of Redemption
- II. Pivotal Place of Christ’s Teachings on Life, Death, and Destiny
- III. Sets Pattern for Eschatological and Chronological Sequence
- IV. Transcendent Events Mark “End of the World”
- V. Apostles’ Descriptions Agree With Christ’s
- VI. “Sleep” of Death Followed by Resurrection “Awakening”
- VII. The Resurrection Provision Pivotal in Christ’s Teaching
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CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Christ’s Great Parable of the Lost Opportunity
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CHAPTER FOURTEEN: Gravity of Ascribing False Teachings to Christ
- I. Josephus Illuminates Dives-Lazarus Story
- II. Literalism Violates Consistency, Vitiates Christ’s Witness, Overturns Scripture Testimony
- III. Gravity of Ascribing False Teaching to Christ, Embodiment of Truth
- IV. Major Area of Disagreement Between Christ and Pharisees
- V. Conclusion: Immortal Soulism Collapses Under Scrutiny
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CHAPTER FIFTEEN: Christ’s Majestic Answer to the Penitent’s Plea
- I. Problem Text (Luke 23:43): Penitent Thief—“Today”—and “Paradise”
- II. Three “Heavens and Earths”—Past, Present, Future
- III. Penitent Neither in Kingdom Nor in Paradise That Day
- IV. Meaning Completely Altered by Position of Comma
- V. Determining Evidences on the Technical Side
- VI. Most Sublime Episode of Christ’s Redemptive Career
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CHAPTER SIXTEEN: Christ Portrays Doom of Wicked as Utter Destruction
- I. Seventeen Graphic Illustrations of Doom of Wicked
- II. Christ’s Meaning of “Eternal” Fire, Punishment, Damnation
- III. Christ’s Explicit Teachings on “Hell” Examined
- IV. “Hades”—True Understanding Based on NT Usage, Not Pagan-Romanist
- V. Problem Text (Mark 9:43-48): “Their Worm Dieth Not”
- VI. Sin’s Punishment Does Not Continue Through All Eternity
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CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: Theologian Paul on Life, Death, and Immortality
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CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: Paul’s Leading Problem Passage (2 Corinthians 5:1-9)
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CHAPTER NINETEEN: Paul’s Other Problem Passages
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CHAPTER TWENTY: Unique Witness of Epistles of Peter and John
- I. Peter’s Portrayal of Cataclysmic End Events
- II. Problem Text (1 Peter 3:19)—Preaching to “Spirits in Prison”
- III. Christ Truly “Died” According to Prediction, Fulfillment, Attestation
- IV. Problem Text (2 Peter 2:4)—Fallen Angels Detained in “Tartarus”
- V. John’s Epistles: Life in and Through Christ Is Central Thought
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CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE: Revelation-Inspiration’s Supreme Portrayal of Human Destiny
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CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO: Apocalypse Reveals Final Fate of Wicked
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CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE: Greek Terms and Usages—“Psuche” (Soul); “Pneuma” (Spirit)
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CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR: Terms and Usages: “Aion” and “Aionios”
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CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE: Terms and Usages: “Immortal,” “Incorruption,” “Immortality,” “Eternal Life”
- I. “Immortality”—Springs From God, Bestowed on Man
- II Athanasia, Aphthartos, Aphtharsia—Restrict Innate Immortality to God
- III. The Five English Uses of Immortal/Immortality Examined
- IV. Problem: “Eternal Life” and “Immortality”—Differences, Similarities, and Relationships
- V. Eternal Life—Present Possession, but in Christ
- VI. Immortality—God’s Alone, Man’s to “Put On” at Advent
- VIII. Believers Predestined Heirs of Eternal Life Hereafter
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CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX: Technical Terms: Sleeping, Waking, Resurrection
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CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN: Terms and Usages: Final Disposition of the Wicked
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CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT: Summing Up the Case for Biblical Conditionalism
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Part III-Historical Development of Innate, Immortality Concept (900 B.C. to the Time of Christ)-Rise of Platonic Postulate and Penetration Into Jewry
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CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE: Greek Philosophy Reaches Summit of Pagan Thinking
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CHAPTER THIRTY: Sophists React Against Conflicting Speculative Schools
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CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE: Plato—Pagan Fountainhead of Innate-Immortality Streams
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CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO: Pagan Philosophy’s Basic Arguments for Immortal-Soulism
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CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE: Immortal Human Souls Part of World-Soul
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CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR: Skeptical Reactions Erupt Against Platonism
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CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE: Pathetic Despair Predominant Among Roman Thinkers
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CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX: Alexandrian Jews Forsake Ancestral Platform
- I. The Tragedy of the Great Departure
- II. Character and Significance of Apocryphal and Pseudepigraphal Teachings
- III. Historical Background of Jewish Captivities and Decline
- IV. Triple Exposure to Immortality Postulate in Three Captivities
- V. Alexandria-Intellectual Center of Learned World
- VI. Process Whereby the Jews Changed Their Anthropology
- VII. Source of Revolutionary Concepts of Unseen World
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CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN: Alien Note Injected Into Inter-Testament Writings
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CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT: Innate Immortality Established by Last Century B.C
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CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE: Majority Adhere to Historic Conditionalism
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CHAPTER FORTY: “2 Esdras” Maintains the Conditionalist View
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CHAPTER FORTY-ONE: Neoplatonism’s Development—Jewish, Pagan, and Christian
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CHAPTER FORTY-TWO: Philo Judaeus Fuses Platonic Philosophy With Judaic Doctrine
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CHAPTER FORTY-THREE: Dead Sea Scrolls-Permeated Throughout With Conditionalism
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Part IV-Historical Conflicts Compass the Early Centuries (A.D. 150 to A.D. 500)-Positions of Subapostolic and Ante-Nicene Fathers, and Post-Nicene Developments Eventuate in a Theological Trilemma
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CHAPTER FORTY-FOUR: Subapostolic Writers Consistently Conditionalist
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CHAPTER FORTY-FIVE: Immortality Bestowed at Advent, Wicked Destroyed
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CHAPTER FORTY-SIX: Immortality a Gift; Death Is Utter Destruction
- Hermas—Portrays Issues of Eternal Life and Utter Destruction
- I. Two Destinations Portrayed in Multiple Forms
- II. Polycarp—Resurrection Is Immortality’s Sole Gateway
- III. Conditional Resurrection the Determining Factor
- IV. Epistle of Mathetes to Diognetus—“Immortal Soul” and “Eternal Fire” Problems
- V. Summarizing Conclusion Concerning the Apostolic Fathers
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CHAPTER FORTY-SEVEN: Justin Martyr Augments Subapostolic Conditionalism
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CHAPTER FORTY-EIGHT: Justin on Final Annihilation of the Wicked
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CHAPTER FORTY-NINE: Tatian, Theophilus and Melito—Continue Conditionalist Witness
- I. Tatian—The Soul Is “Not Immortal” but “Mortal”
- II. Tatian’s Confession of Faith on Soul, Here, and Hereafter
- III. Theophilus of Antioch—Man Created a Candidate for Immortality
- IV. Immortality Conferred on Righteous; Destruction Is Fate of Wicked
- V. Melito of Sardis—Death a Long Sleep; Immortality Regained Through Christ
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CHAPTER FIFTY: Gnostic-Manichaean Perversions Compel Restatement of Truth
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CHAPTER FIFTY-ONE: Irenaeus of Gaul—Conditionalist Champion on Western Outpost
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CHAPTER FIFTY-TWO: Irenaeus Voices Preponderant Belief of Church
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CHAPTER FIFTY-THREE: Novatian of Rome—Conditionalist Opponent of Cornelius
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CHAPTER FIFTY-FOUR: Arnobius of Africa—Last Ante, Nicene Conditionalist Spokesman
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CHAPTER FIFTY-FIVE: Athenagoras—First Ecclesiastic to Assert Innate Immortality
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CHAPTER FIFTY-SIX: Tertullian—Projector of Eternal-Torment Corollary
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CHAPTER FIFTY-SEVEN: Tertullian Holds Wicked Ever Burn but Never Consume
- CHAPTER FIFTY-EIGHT: Universal Restoration Substituted for Eternal Torment
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CHAPTER FIFTY-NINE: Rise and Spread of Neoplatonic Restorationism
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CHAPTER SIXTY: Origen—Projector of Universal Restoration Theory
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CHAPTER SIXTY-ONE: Origen’s Multiple Departures From the Faith
- I. Adopted Heathen Transmigration Fallacy
- II. Allegorizing Substituted for Literalism
- III. Spiritualizes Second Advent, End of World, and Millennium
- IV. Holds Every Immortal Soul to Be Restored
- V. Recapitulation: Twin Fallacies of Tertullian and Origen
- VI. Subsequent Churchmen Are Divided Between the Conflicting Schools
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CHAPTER SIXTY-TWO: Lactantius—Emitting Light Amid Encroaching Darkness
- I. Historical Setting of Interest in Man’s Nature and Destiny
- II. Immortality—Lost Through Sin; Restored Through Christ
- III. Christ the Source of Our Immortality
- IV. Immortality Not Inherent, but a Gift
- V. Conditionalism Placed in Eschatological Setting
- VI. Immortality’s Place in the Prophetic Outline
- VII. Pitfalls Lurk in Abbreviated Epitome
- VIII. Significance of Lactantius’ Conditionalist Witness
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CHAPTER SIXTY-THREE: Athanasius—Then Conditionalism Into Eclipse
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CHAPTER SIXTY-FOUR: Augustine—Immortal-Soulism’s Hour of Supremacy
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Appendixes
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Bibliography
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Subject Guide