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hath smitten, and he will bind us up. After
two days he will revive US, and on the third
day he will raise us up, and we shall live in
his sight."-Hosea, vI:2.
The old doctrine looks for the resurrec-
tion at the destruction of the earth, but the
new doctrine looks for it at the destruction
of the earthly part or body. "One genera
ton passeth away, and another generation
cometh, but the earth abideth forever
1t is not said in the scriptures that the
material body shall be raised. In John v,
| the subject is not the resurrection from one
world to another. but the inward resurrec-
| tion from the spiritual death in sin to the
| spiritual life in regeneration. "The heur is
| coming, and now is, when the
| dead shalt hear the voice
| of the son of God; and they that hear shall
live." If a material resurrection is meant,
then it must have happened at that time"
for it is said "the hour now is" And so,
the dead, spoken of in the after verses cf
the same chapter, refer to the spiritually
dead in sin, and not the physically dead.
"He that heereth my word, and believeth on
him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and
shall not come unto condemnation; bnt is
passed from death unto ife.'
The passage in Job, Sand though, after
my skin, worms destroy this body, yet in my
flesh shall see God" when correctly render
ed, very plainly has nothing to do with the
subject of resurrection. Job merely asserts
that, though his disease destroys his
body, yet, in spite of his trials
he sees and acknowledges the
hand of God, even in his discipline.
The passage in Daniel, "And many of them
that sleep in the dust of the earth, shall
awake, some to everlasting life and some to
shame and everlasting contempt" proves too
much for the theory of physical resurrec-
tion. Both good and evil ere spoken of, and
yet only many, not all, are to be raised. II
so, who die third class? The good and the
evil are both included in the many who
shall be raised. The whole subject is the
inward resurrection from evil to good.
So the famous passage in l Corinthians
teaches spiritual resurrection, not ma
terial one. There is q natural body and
there is spiritual body" Both are now ex-
listing together. "Not that which is sown"
shall rise again; for the natural body is sowu
in the grave, while the spirit in Its spiritual
body, rises.
The natural body is sown; the spiritual
body is raised. The spiritual body is not to
be made out of the material body by any
changes. Material substances and spiritual
substances are totally different in kind, and
the natural can never be made into the spir-
itual. There is no way in which man can
go out of the physical world, except by go
ing out of the physical body, which keeps
him in this world.
There are not, in any of Gods works, in
nature, any things analogous to the idea of
physical resurrection. Every organism
passes through distinct stages of organiza.
ton aud life. But it never returns to its
former stages after leaving them..
The caterpillar becomes a butterfly,
but the butterfly never returns to
its former condition as caterpillar.
as tadpole, or pollywog.
Again, there are many unreasonable ideas
in the theory of physical resurrection. If
the body ever once losses its organization
and identity, it can never again exist, as
that body. Again, men are eaten by can
nibals, and thus the same particles are in
several mems bodies
As q mans spiritual body is full and
perfect body, always within the material
body; and as death merely strips off the
material body, and leaves the man in his
spiritual body, he will not, in the spiritual
world, have any need of q physical body, if
he could have one. He will be, in every
way. freer, and better off, without it.
All the men spoken of in the scriptures, as
in the spiritual world, are spoken cf as real
men, in perfect bodies already resurrected.
John saw, in the spiritual world, a great
multitude, whom no man could number.
Bet they were men. They had bodies they
spoke they had palms in their hands.
So Jesus said to the repentant thief on the
cross, To-day thou shalt be with me in
paradise" Thou shalt be with me, not
some formless soul, some vapory ghost, but
thou, thsself, with all thine identity as a
full man. The physical body of the thief
did not rise that day. But the spirit rose in
its spiritual body, and the spirit is the man
himself.
Our loved ones in the other world are
real persons in spiritual bodies, and we shall
meet them there as such, and shall know
them and associate with them amid vastly
better opportunities for the satisfaction of
all our spiritual longings and aspirations.