Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1905-12-28
the WAGES OF SIN IS DEATH.
AND NOT ETERNAL TORMENT.


EDITOR NKws:-If you will allow
me space in your columns / would
like to say a few words on the above
named subject.
The teaching Of orthodox that the
wages Of sin 10 eternal torment 10 in
direct conflict with the above tex,
and many others. God said to Ad'
am 10 the garden of Eden in regard
TO the forbidden fruit ain the day
that thou eatests thereof thou shalt
surely die.
Now, we have only one text OF
scripture that contradicts the above
quoted text, and probably there are
not many Bible students would like
to give him as authority; that IL
Satan. Satan said to mother Eve
thou shalt not surely die" Strange
10 say, almost the whole Christian
world is preaching the same old lie
that Satan told Mother Eve in the
garden OF Eden. Surely II eternal
torment 10 the penalty for sin then
God done Adam an inexcusable
wrong in not stating the fact to
him; but instead telling him the
penalty would be death.
And after he had transgressed
God said TO Adam (Gen. 3:lN for o.
dust thou art and to dust thou shal,
return"
But. says the objector, it was spir
itual life that Adam lost and no.
physical life. Forgetting that Ad
am was not a spiritual being b,
had no spiritual life to lose, bu
was created a carnai being. made
out OF the dust of the earth, ant
when God blew into his nostril'
the breath of life he, the man, made
of the dust of the earth, became &
living soul, because Of the breatl
of lille. The thought that man hat
soul is wrong thought. Man lie
soul.
"The soul that sinneth, il shal
die" "Have any pleasure in TIT
death OF the wicked, saith the Lore
God; and not that he should return
from his ways and liver" FIX. 1902
The Apostle Paul says: 9TH
wages OF Gin is death" Rome 6:23.
Now, IL death 10 the penalty TO
Sin we can understand wha
Christ's mission into the world was
ITO redeem that which was lost.
What was lost? The whole human
race, lost in death. Not In eterna
torment. "As in Adam, all die, ever
80 in Christ shall all be made alive.
Cor:l522. So we see by the deatl
OF Jesus every son and daughte
of Adam 10 guaranteed redemption
from death, the penalty of sin. W.
see that the redemption was a
far reaching az was the condemua
ton, that 10 to the whole race o
Adam. "And he is the Precipitation
for our sins THAT 10 the churche
sins) and not for ours only, but 70
the sins of the whole world" Johl
20. Wherefore, az by one man siI
entered the world, and death by sin
and 90 death passed upon all mer
for that all have sinued." There
fore, as by the offense of one judg
ment came upon all men 10 con
domination even so by the right
Ieousness of one, the free gift cam
upon all men, unto justification o
life" Rome 5:l2.le.
Now, Mr.. Editor, / can't take spac
or time to quote one hundredtl
part of scripture bearing on thi
question, but believe have quote
sufficient TO establish the fact ths
the penalty for ain 10 death, and nc
life 10 any condition.
II seems to me that II eternal toI
ment 10 the wages of sin, the
Christ in order to be q propitiatio
for the sins Of the whole worl
have had TO suffer In their stes
eternal torment; death on the eros
would not have been q just equiv
client, because under Gods Law
was an eye for an eye and q toot
=. for tooth. Justice 10 the foundi
ton of His throne. So Christ b
aufferinR death in Adams 0tea