What is the “second death”?

Thomas R. Valletta

“The second death, therefore, whatever its nature or extent, is a feature of the final judgment, at which each shall stand in his resurrected body of flesh and bones to receive the sentence of honor or of shame. … We are without scriptural warrant for assuming that the second death is another separation of body and spirit, or that the spirit shall undergo dissolution and cease to be. The spirit of man is eternal; and the resurrected body shall be everlasting. … In what then does the second death consist? … The second death therefore is final consignment to the dominion of Satan, and, of necessity, banishment from the presence of God and Christ” (Talmage, Vitality of Mormonism, 302).

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