There are Blogs about “Immortality,” posted on February 17, 2012, but the reasoning mind struggles to understand spiritual truths until it receives a larger portion of God’s saving Grace through prayer. This message is from the writer of the third Gospel of the New Testament, and published in The Gospel of God’s Love, page 158.
“I was with you today as you listened to the discourse of the preacher upon the subject of Immortality, and saw that you realized that he did not have a true idea of what the term means, and thought how much you would like to tell him of your knowledge of the subject. Well, I understand just how you felt about the matter, and am in sympathy with you in your desire, and hope that sometime you may have the opportunity to converse with him on this subject and give him your conception of the truth.
“It is the subject of so many sermons and theories, yet few have a true understanding of what immortality is. Most understand it only in the sense of continuous life, and then in addition try by argument and inference to attach to it the idea of “never ending” – that is, of the continuous life being so established that it can never be ended – and in this they satisfy their longings and desires. But you see that this inference is merely one that is drawn from the desires of the preacher, and that they have no true besis upon which to found their conclusions. Even as to the ordinary things of life, they would not be willing to risk an important decision upon a basis no better established.
“As is said in the message that you have received from Jesus, immortality can be derived only from that which is immortal, and all arguments that merely tend to show that a thing “must” be immortal because of the desires or intentions of God do not suffice. It is utterly impossible to derive immortality from anything less than which is immortal in itself, and to attempt to do so by argument or inference is merely a fruitless exercise in logic.
“Only God is Immortal; and that means that His very qualities and nature are immortal. Among the qualities of His being is the supremely important one of Love. Without it, God would not be; His existence would be less than a God.” to be continued…