The Plymouth pilot. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1851-1852, 1851-09-24

fact that man is naturally immortal, il
must follow as matter of course that
his positions are correct, and my argu-
ments must fall TO the ground, and vice
versa. The 'indianian" has marched up
to the Bible to prove the affirmative of
this question, and with all due reverence
for :hat Book Of Books, we follow him
there, and examine some passages, in re-
latiOn TO the point at issue, and after
wards notice the proofs which he has
proposet':
'And God said let us make man in our
own image, after our likeness" &c.
Gen. |: 26. "Amd the Lord God formed
man of the dust Of the ground, and
breathed into his nostrils the breath of
life, aad nan became a living soul."-
Gen. 2: Z. The Spirit of God hath
made me, and the breath of the Almighty
hath given me life. JOB 49, 4. Here
are declarations showing how man was
made and what his component parts
were, and we here are emphaticallv told
that man was made of the dust, and
when so made he is called man; now
mark the language, ''and breathed into
his nostrils the breath of life, and man
became a living soul" not living soul
made and put i'll the man, but this man
made of the dust, when alive was called
"a living soul wonld here remark that
the Bible is declared to be Revelation,
therefore, it is undoubtedly to be read
and understood as other books, if we
would spare ourselves of great perplcxi-
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occasioned by undertaking to spiritual
ize plain positive declarations, trying to
make them mean something different
from what appears on the surface, or de-
priving words Of their primary signifi
cation. 1T is true there are figures and
metaphors made use of, but there is no
difficulty in ascertaining them. 1t would
seem strange If the Great Creator could
not tell in plain language what he wished
70 communicate TO mankind, we do not
see any necessity for departing from the
word itself TO hear what the creature
man may say in contradiction to what
God has said. But of the tree of the
knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt
not eat Of il; for in the day that thou
eatest thereof thou shalt surely die-dy-
ing thon shalt diez1margin.-Gen. ,: II.
And the serpent said unto the woman,
Ye shall not surely die. Gen. 5: 4.
"And unto Adam ne said because thou
hast hearkcned unto the voice Of thy
wife, and hast eaten Of the tree Of which
commanded thee saying. thou shalt not
eat Of it, cursed is the groupd for thy
sake, in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all
the days of thy life. Thorns also and
thistes shall it bring forth to thee, and
thou shalt eat the herb Of the field. In
the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread
till thou return unto the ground; for out
of it vast thou taken; for dust thou art, ,,
and unto dust shalt thou return. Gen.
3: I7-l9. If the "breath of life" was
the immortality, then every beast, fowl,
and creeping thing have it. '.And all
flesh died that moved upon the earth, |
both Of fowl, and of cattle, and of beasts, |
and Of every creeping thing that creepeth |
upon the earth. and every man; all in |
whose nostrils was the breath Of life.oI
Gen. Z: 81, %. "For that which befal- I
leth the sons of men, befalleth beasts;
even one thing befalleth them; as the one
dieth. so dieth the other yea, they have !
all one breath; so that u man hath no |
pre-eminence above u beast; for all is
vanity. All 20 unto one place; all are
of the dust, and all turn to dust again" II
-Eccl. 3: 10, 20. "But man dieth, anu
wasteth away; yea, man glveth up the |
ghost, and where is he: AS the waters |
fail from the sea, and the flood decay
eth and drieth up: So man lieth down, |
and riseth not, till the heavens be no
more, they shall not awake. nor be raised |
out of their sleep. that thou wouldst |
hide me in the grave. that thou wouldst |
keep me secret, until thy wrath be past,
thu. thou wouldst appoint me a set time,
and remember me: II man die shall he |
live again? all the days of my appointed |
time will wait till my change come.
Thou shalt call, and will answer thee;
thou wilt have a desire to the work of
thy hand job IA: 1918 inclusive.
From the foregoing declarations we learn
that SO far as the creation and death of
man and beasts there is no difference;
but man has the promise of rcsurrec-
ton from the dead which the beasts
have not.
We will now notice some of the texts
referred To by "An Indianian." His |
breath goe,h forth, he roturneth TO his
earth; in that very day bis thoughts per
ish.--Ps. lI6: 1. IAN lndanian" un-
dertakes To set this evidence aside. by |
as we think a very futile argument; there !
is nothing said in the declaration that
warrants any such conclusion as he pro
posed, there is no distinction made. but |
of mankind in general. For the living |
know that they shall die; but the dead
know not enythlng, neither have they
any more reward; for the memory of
them Is forgotten Also their love, aud !