In 1837 he found a copy of a pamphlet by Henry Grew on a train, concerning the doctrines of conditional immortality ( the non-immortality of the soul ), and hell.
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The minority Christian doctrine that sinners perish and are destroyed rather than punished eternally is referred to as Christian mortalism; annihilation for those not awarded immortal life, conditional immortality for those who are.
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In 1868 he was elected Hulsean lecturer, taking as his subject Immortality or rather conditional immortality; stating " The immortality of the soul is a phantom which eludes your eager grasp . ".
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Modern proponents of conditional immortality include some in the Anglican church such as N . T . Wright and as denominations the Bible Students, Jehovah's Witnesses, Christadelphians, and some other Protestant Christians.
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Christian mortalism and annihilationism are directly related to the doctrine of conditional immortality, the idea that a human soul is not immortal unless it is given eternal life at the second coming of Christ and resurrection of the dead.
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It is appointed as the portion of those who are worthy of it, and they shall enjoy it as a natural consequence of their worth . " This view seems to parallel the doctrine of conditional immortality now held by many Christians.
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When this failed he became a leader of the Evangelical Adventists and their American Millennial Association ( 1858 ), opposing sanctuary as well as those who believed in conditional immortality and the re-establishment of Israel before Christ's Second Coming.
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This version of the Green Goblin appears to be effectively immortal, having resurrected and'evolved'multiple times thus far despite the fact that he has been killed in multiple ways; the extent of and limitations to this conditional immortality is currently unknown.
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Modern proponents of conditional immortality include some in the Anglican church such as N . T . Wright and as denominations the Bible Students, Jehovah's Witnesses, Christadelphians, Living Church of God, The Church of God International, and some other Protestant Christians.
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Atkinson was most notable for his advocacy of soul sleep and conditional immortality . within the Cambridge Inter-Collegiate Christian Union ( CICCU ) and the " Inter Varsity Fellowship " in the 1920s where he influenced, among others, John W . Wenham.
