(Excerpt - EJ Waggoner- )
Immortality and Eternal Life.
God will render eternal life to them who seek for glory and honor and immortality. Christ "hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel." 2 Tim. 1:10.
2Ti 1:10 But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel
Life and immortality are two different things.
Whoever believes on the Son of God has eternal life.
"This is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent." John 17:3.
We have eternal life as soon as we know the Lord; but we can not have immortality until the Lord comes, at the last day.
"We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump; for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality." 1 Cor. 15:51-53.
Rom_2:7 To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life
We are to seek for immortality; that of itself is proof that no man has it now.
Since Christ has brought it to light through the gospel, it is evident that immortality can be found in no other way than through the gospel. Therefore those who do not accept the gospel will never have immortality.
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