Sunday, April 06, 2008

Top 16 CI Verses

Here are the verses I find most often used by the 'conditional immortality' (CI) camp:

Genesis 2:17
But you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it you will surely die.
God didn't say they'd die and suffer eternal torment. He said the penalty for sin was death. If ET was part of the punishment, was God very honest in His description?

Psalm 21:9
At the time of your appearing you will make them like a fiery furnace. In his wrath the LORD will swallow them up, and his fire will consume them.
Both phrases here convey and 'end' to the wicked.

Proverbs 12:28
In the way of righteousness there is life; along that path is immortality.
Immortality is not natural to humanity. It is only found in 'the way'

Proverbs 24:20
For the evil man has no future hope, and the lamp of the wicked will be snuffed out.
First part dismisses UR. Second part dismisses ET.

1 Timothy 6:15-16
The King of kings and Lord of lords, who alone is immortal
The Bible clearly states, here, that only God has natural immortality

Ezekiel 18:4
The soul who sins is the one who will die
Sin results in death for the person/soul

Matthew 10:28
Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather, be afraid of the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell.
God is capable of killing both the material and immaterial aspects of a person

Luke 13:3
I tell you, no! But unless you repent, you too will all perish.
The word 'perish' suggests and end

John 3:16
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
Eternal life is only found in Jesus

Romans 2:7
To those who by persistence in doing good seek glory, honor and immortality, he will give eternal life.
Immortality is something we must seek to gain

Romans 6:23
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
The result of sin is death, not eternal torment. Eternal life is a gift, not a characteristic of our nature.

1 Corinthians 15:53
For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality.
We have to be clothed with immortality, it is not natural to us

Philippians 3:18-19
Many live as enemies of the cross of Christ. Their destiny is destruction.
Destruction implies an 'end'

2 Thessalonians 1:9
They will be punished with everlasting destruction and shut out from the presence of the Lord and from the majesty of his power
Destruction implies an 'end'

1 John 5:11-12
And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life.
Eternal life is only found in Jesus. Those not 'in Christ' don't have eternal life

Revelation 21:8
But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars—their place will be in the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death
The end, for the wicked, is a 'death.' Death implies an end unless otherwise stated.

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