Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1890-05-08


Pushes On, Like .
Flock ofSheep.
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10 the Editor Of the Ledger.
MExco, No., May 3.--Now
comes, you say, . former Mexico
pastor and asserts, in your yester-
days daily, the existence Of the
devil and his bottomless abode.
He follows the evangelical ortho-
dox churches, and thinks he can't
be wrong. Our trouble with the
world to-day 10 that men follow
blindly the pathway Of hoary ego
rather than think for themselves.
For one, I would not give the
snap of my finger for anything
coming from the past, except 20
far at it comports with brightest In
telligence Of the present. We live
to learn. I do not care TO discuss
the existence Of his satanic majesty
further just now; but will say, in
passing, that the whole thing is .
paganistic emanation. According
to the best authority it came from
the conception that good and evil
are in the world. God is the au.
thor of good-the devil is the an.
thor Of evil, or rather q good God
and q bad God.
This orthodox devil, for whom I
have q sovereign contempt, 10 Q
rival of the God whom I adore.
Orthodoxy will advertise the
devil as in effect omnipresent, ubi-
quitous-ki killing a man in Cape Of
Good Hope and committing rape,
robbery, murder, arson in Rome,
London, New York City, Chicago,
st. Louis, San Francisco and Pekin
all at the same moment Of time. II
30, then he is certainly omipresent.
Now, this 10 an attribute Of God. II
satan have one attribute, who dare
say he has not omniscience omnip-
otence9 Don't you see? Then
you stand fiat-footed with tho
negroes Of Cote Dor. This IL their
idea: ga COED God Ishy and .
bad God Chooey." Out Of self.
respect let us abandon that COM
pany. Our friend rushes to aion
as safe anchorage but, alas, "He
missed the mark, both pluck and
plover; his gun kicked its holder
lover"
Language is like edged tools
dangerous to fool with.
There is a Greek word, kolasia,
that goes with aion. It is derived
from kolazoo. It's primary meaning
lis to cut off. Now, in Matt. 25:46,
there is a clear antithesis. The
righteous 60 to life-the wicked TO
death, cutting of, kolasin, a;o,s;on.
The thing done is everlasting, not
the act Of doing. Here is the grand
mistake made by most men they
apply the word everlasting to the
doing instead of to the act done.
Now, to make the absurdity still
palmer, just apply the word ever
lasting to the act of going into
heaven and then you have God
spending eternity in marching into
heaven those whom He has ran
somed. The true solution is, the
wicked are forever cut of-she
righteous are forever happy. That
ia the true antithesis.
A KoIasia in all its forms only 90.
/ ours in three other places in the
I'm. T.-Acts 4:21. Here II ID
used in the sense Of punishment Il
the Apostles. Again, End Peter
20, it is translated by the world
, cut of. Also, 1st John, Alb. Hert
kolasin is rendered in the King'l
TRANSLATION by the word torment
but later writer's translate it by th'
, word restraint, which clearly is tn
] better word, az all mankind are re
. strained by fear rather than tor
mented. Without pursuing tn
matter further this is the sum 0
what we have said:
Il He'll came from the valley Q
!, Hinnom, sort Of crematory q
8 Jerusalem; hades is only the grav
!. the concealed, the covered up
4 The devil Is fallen angel, II any
thing, and Jude says God has hin
. lin chains under darkness unto tn
Z great day, when all, including hu
n man rebels, will be judged. II il
: chains then he is not going aroun'
seeking whom he may devoul
That settles him pro tenn.
. 4 =
That aion with kolasin elimi
P mates all uncertainty from th
: meaning Of the words and make
J. the word everlasting apply to th
Q act done-the destruction, the cut
Q ting off-and not TO the time o
Il manner of doing the cutting of acl
Then the same words show ths
y the righteous are made eternall
4 happy, instead Of being eternsll
' getting ready 10 be happy. tn
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