The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1881-11-05


les and request for me to answer,
which l now make the effort to do. !
l hope, however, the gentleman ma
king the request rs well as all your !
readers will take their bibles and ex.
anime carefully the proofs furnished
and thus get up d spirit of inquiry
and bible research,
Query LIST. as Immortality natural
and inherent or is it the gift of God?"
Immortality or immortal life is the
Gift of God on certain conditions.
In proof of which we quote as fol-
lows:
Except We eat the flesh of the son
of man, We have no life in you."
John 9th chap. SO verse.
II give unto them (my Sheep
eternal life and they shall never per-
ish." John, 10th chap. ~ and 2Sth
verses.
sAnd this is the record that God
has given to us, eternal life, and this
life is in His Son." 1st Epistle Of
John 9th chap. and 18th verse.
"He that hath the Son hath life
and he that hath not the Son hath
not life" Verse ~.
"For the wages of sin is death; but
the gift of God is eternal life through
Jesus Christ our Lord" Romans 6
chap. 29rd verse.
Query End. do sinners possess
Immortality"
The wicked have not eternal life
and as consequence are not immor-
tai.
In proof of which we quote as fol-
lows:
"Whosoever hateth his brother is
a murderer and we know that no MUIR
derer hath eternal life abiding in
him." LIST Epistle Of John 3-15 verse.
''He that believeth on the Son hath
everlasting life and he that believeth
not the Son shall not see life John
Bird chap. Seth verse.
Now the above scriptures being
true it follows that mankind are not
born immortal To these may be adj
ded the following; ITO them who by
patient continuance in well doing
seek for glory, honor, immortality,
eternal life" Rom. End chap. 7th
verse.
This corruptable must put on in
corruption and This mortal immor-
tality." LIST Cor. chap. 18th, 80 and
54th verses.
This is positive proof that man
kind has not immortality, for If he
had it already he would not be seek
ing for it, neither can he put it on.
Why seek for that we have already?
Why put on that we have already
on? Those who believe and teach
that men are born mortal beings be-
lieve and teach contrary to the clear
est teaching Of the scripture.
Query 3. "When does man become
immOrtal?"
Sinners never become immortal,
and the righteous only have the
promise Of immortality, eternal life
and that not until the day of the res
direction. "Them that sleep in the
dust shall awake, some to everlast-
ing life, &C." Dan. 18th chap. End
| verse.
"All that are in their graves shall
| hear his voice and come forth; they
that have done good unto the resurrec-
ton of life" John chap. 9th, % verse.
These / deem sufficient for the
present and hence we have the fol-
lowing all in the most positive Ian
guage of the New Testament.
LIST. Immortality or eternal life is
gift Of God through Jesus Christ
offered to man on conditions, there
fore man is not naturally and inher-
emily immortal.
2nd. The wicked (thosc who re-
ject Christi are not immortal and
have no eternal life.
Bird. Immortality or eternal life
will be bestowed on the children of
God at the resurrection.
Query 4th. "What is the condition
of the dead between death and the
resurrection, are they conscious or
unconscious"
What is it to be conscious? Web
ster says it is possessing the power
or faculty of knowing ones thoughts
or mental operations. Have the dead
this power, this faculty, have they
cognizancc of mental operations, in a
word do the dead think? The APP
plication of chloroform suspends the
action of the brain, prevents thought
and destroys consciousness. Wounds
have been known to produce the
same effect. I have now case in
point reported by Sir Ashley Cooper,
quoted by Mr.. Fillmore in his history
of immortality; he says a man press
ed on board of one of his Majestie's
ships in the Revolutionary war while
on board this vessel he received fall
from the yard arm and when picked up
was found to be insensible, and for a
period of thirteen months and some
days his mind remained in a state of
perfect oblivion. He had drunk as
it were the cup of Lethe, he had suf-
fered complete death as regards his
mental and almost his bodily power,
but removing small piece of bone
with the saw he was at once restored
to all the functions of his mind and
almost all the powers of his body
Now If "a small pressure upon the