"The wages of sin is death" (Rom. 6:23) - P. T. Messanger. So quotes the Materialist, seeming to think he has scored for his teaching "that the impenitent who fail to appropriate Christ, are eternally lost, they simply cease to exist." But how he makes out that a thing that is "lost" or "eternally lost," ceases to exist, he does not tell us. Is it true? No!

The Bible says, in the final reckoning, "He that is righteous, let him be righteous still and he that is holy, let him be holy still" (Rev. 22:11). Does this mean "simply cease to exist?" No. Well the same verse says, "He that is unjust, let him be unjust still; and he that is filthy, let him be filthy still." Does this mean: Let him "simply cease to exist?" Tut! Tut! It does not.