sermon: Christ's Death and the Immortality of the Soul
The Purpose of Christ's Death
John W. Ritenbaugh
Given 27-Mar-04; Tape #657
Description: John Ritenbaugh focuses upon the big lie ('you will not surely die'--Genesis 3:4) of inherent immortal life (an immortal soul) and self-deification. This dangerous false belief, sadly held by the majority of Christian-professing denominations, has led to an acceleration of sin and the danger of eternal oblivion. Sin kills, and we are not immortal. Contrary to Socrates and Plato's misconceptions about inherent immortality, only God can give eternal life, and it has specific conditions (overcoming sin and growing spiritually). Death is not a friend or a liberator, but as Jesus understood at the time of his crucifixion, a bitter enemy, a tool of Satan, and a cruel instrument of separation. Only through God's divine act of resurrection can we hope to attain eternal life. We desperately need to do a thorough self-examination, properly discerning Christ's sacrifice, and strive mightily to overcome sin, the destroyer of life. (66 minutes)
Keywords/Topics: Apostasy, Barna poll, Beginnings of Apostasy, Death the 'liberator', Death's own turf, Death, Discerning the Lord's body, Eternal life, First of the firstfruits, Gnosticism, God level life, Immortal soul, Inherent immortality, Make all things new, Nothingness, Oscar Cullman, Passover, Plato, Playing piano analogy, Phaedo, Practicing piano analogy, Resurrection a divine act of creation, Second Death, Self deification, Self evaluation, Self examination, Sin, Socrates, Victory over death, Souls
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