Martin Chemnitz likewise confesses his faith in eternal life through Jesus Christ. In speaking of the List things, it directs our gaze primarily to Judgment Day and the events clustering around it. The Scriptures describe man's being in a variety of ways. Since all these insights are Scriptural, they need to be affirmed and defended, as they have been throughout the history of the church. The Scriptures declare that sin is the cause of death - temporal, spiritual, and eternal.
Natural man is corrupted by sin in body and soul and is completely subject to death.
The Scriptures affirm the continued existence of all men with their personal identity intact between death and the resurrection, and thereafter. They teach that upon death believers are in the hands of God and that they are with Christ. Those who have rejected Christ will be condemned by the judgment of His Word. To reject the teaching that death terminates the existence of man so as to preclude the possibility of the persistence beyond death of his personal identity before God. To reject the teaching that at death man is annihilated in such a way as to preclude even for the grace and power of God the possibility of his physical resurrection, or of his final and eternal judgment.