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Perhaps the best and most sophisticated demonstration of conditional immortality, both rationally and biblically. See Hudson's book
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it says that immortality only comes to human beings as a gift through the gospel. Immortality is something to be sought after (
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An exhaustive study into the biblical definition of immortality and proof of conditional immortality.
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An excellent place to begin a study on conditional immortality from a
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The Fire That Consumes: The Biblical Case for Conditional Immortality
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Debt and Grace as Related to a Doctrine of the Future Life
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705:. Vol. 2. Washington, D.C.: Review and Herald.
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489:. London: Paternoster Publishing. pp. 130–135.
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