The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1864-08-26
MR.. NYE TO MR.. wERSTEfs,
LETTER VIII.


DEAR SIR As universal terms are tc
be taken in their unresticated sense Unless
proved to bear Il manner meaning, you
must show that the texts have cited ire
necessarily limited to part Of mankind
or admit that tney prove the final hell.
ness aud happiness OF all men. But this
part of your work has been wholly ne
elected, or performed in a very hasty and
superficial way. And il have again aud
again been forced forced to recall your
attention to arguments and texts which
have had no thorough examination at
your hands, the fault wholly yours. Nor
can you shirk the work now, wearisome
as ii doubtless proves,b complaints of the
frequent repelitions OF my arguments and
proofs.
Let mo select a few instances to show
how your work is done. You admit tia
in John /, %, tho term ab0eid denotes all
men. But you deny that the Lamb Of
God shall actually take away lhe sin oi
all men, and insist that the text simply
means that Christ made an atonement, or
instituted a provisional plan by which
the sin of the world might be taken away
Or by which it might remain forever and
not one man BE saved. But do you
prove your point? you nuke no at
tempt in that direction. Until, therefore
yoii give us someting beside your asser-
ton, or conjecture, i, the case, we must
take the words III their ordinary sense,
and held that the Limb of God will actu
ally bear away The sin of tile wori9.-You
allow that all "the nations, families and
the kindreds of the EARTH" include all
men, and that ali men are to be Blessed
in Christ. But this you think. does not
prove the final salvation Of any, since
man may be blessed ia Christ who IS at
the same time in unoelief and sin, and
therefore all men may be blessed in Christ
ahd Jet be damned forever more
You wholly overlook the proof, already
that this promise refers to
to spiritual good, ami not to temporal
blessings. All the nations, families, kin
dred OF the earth--all men-are to be
blessed in Christ Now your theories
Christ can have no place or
weight, in an argument of this kind, and
until you can prove from the Bible that
men while ii untelief and sin are, at the
same time, Blessed in Jesus Christ the
promise made to abraham will stand
as scriptural prophecy Of the
inal holiness and happiness of all n,en
You do not restrict tie terms ALL MEN
n Iohr l2. 80, but you assert that the ]
he text only means that moral inhuchces
hall go forth from Christ which tSi'ay, or :
nay rot, draw all men unto him l.
rot that fiat contradiction Of Chfisrs ,
'wn words ? Suppose that all men =
houlI resist Christ, and be finally iosl, /,
would Christ's prophecy be then fulfill, /
d, And l, if be lifted up from the q
arth will draw dHt,en unto me-" r
As the Bible teaches but one doctrine {
Aviation 10 the destiny of man, the texts $
ou quote which represent the Jews as a
efu>ng to come to Christ, and dying in l
heir sins, cannot refer to the final con. r
itlon of mankind. for the inspired dec
sration is that call Israel shall be saved" r
And since they cannot bs saved in unbe. O
ef, the text itself is ample proof that their
nbelief shall be taken away Nor are =
on at the liberty, upon your own unsup- e
orled assertion to limit the expression, i
all Israel" to the Jews who shall be liv- S
,g on the earth at some future day. For il
peaking Of the whole earth, "Thus saith I
ie lord, | Will be 10 them a God, and I,