Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1906-03-07

wholly good. Now, do yOu believe converted
man can live sinless liiei In other words wholly
goods Well, doubt It; don't think be can.
Al few days after this interview minister and
had a friendly talk, and during our conversation
asked him: What does Christ save soul FRONT
Answer, from sin. Do you believe in sinless lief
Answer, God wipes out the sin Of rebellion that the
world inherited under Adam, and through Christ q
reconciliation is made through the atOnement, en-
aiding man to God acceptably and now, as for
siness life, do not believe the claim warrented
by the scriptures
Thus did the ParsOn leave me. | made up my
mind to tackle the next man that ! thought was q
christian. I met this man in down town store.
Parson, would like to know, il, when man ID
converted, is the desire 70 sin actually and positive
IL taken ont Of the converted man, will, mind OF
natnrei Answer, don't understand being con
verted, destroys mans free will. said what does
Christ save a man 'front.' Certainly not from doing
good, and il not from doing good then IL must be
from doing evil and II from doing evil, hence life
in Christ or Christ like, must be wholly good; fOI
without holiness, no man can see God.
When You consider that the orthodox religion
sets up Q future life and treats man from double
nature Of good and evil, offering heaven for saliva
tiCn from sin, and hell as reward for freedom in
sim is it not at least. remarkable to make Christ
save q man while both elements remain in the man,
II Christ does not destroy the will or disposition
sin, wherein does the salvation offered by Chris
differ from that offered by zoroaster, Buddah OF
Mahametf
Imagine christian saying Christ can save SOU
from sin, il the devil will let him.
FNo%un
the devil over soul, when the devil says to Chris
you take the soul provided you do not interfere
with the free will. Immagine, II you can, Christ
compromising with the devil, when the apostle
John said 'sfor this purpose was Christ manifested
that be might destroy the works Of the DEVIL
Now to say 'sdestroyv only means to sset apart T.
break !" is to talk nonsense, for this logic kills th
doctrine set up by the apostles, to wit: Christ
God manifested 10 the fesh.v For il Christ wal
truly God, then he knew to seperate or to break
did NOT destroy but left the parts subject to being
reunited. It is nonsense to that Christ an(
the devil can occupy the soul at The time; and
1t il rank hypocracy say that Christ enthrOn
in the soul can not hold dominion over the soUl
that he will not does not destroy the will to sin
For il the disposition accompanied with the power
to sih remains in the soul the devil has not een de-
throned, and the carnal nature remains. In what
then, does Salvation consist, since good and evil
still remain TO control the iOrgivsni
The attacks made on the power Of Christ to save
: soul from sin, and from shining, BY the infide
world, might have ceased had not the church
taught The "back sliding doctrine, and furnished
the intidea with the proof BY their lives conduct
ana profession.
"A soul purged OF sin, cleaned, purified and made
into the likeness Of Christ Christ like Is the only
salvation promised Or given BY Christ. Now there
tore hear che conclusion Oithe whole matter, Christ
thb sinless, Christ, The God Creator Oi the soul
With power over the soul, 81 Christ, Philosopher
possessed of more good than evil, and who taught
salvation, that does not save.
The church has reached the parting Of ways.
4 re ALIGNMENT must be had. The apostolic relig
iDn must oyer,thsOw Che COLA seeking, place hunt
ing, goddess thronR, the social craze The moral n
sanity nchurch and state; who knOwsi but al that
may be found win b the pale shadow 81 the ono.
eIori6ed personality.
Woe unto y0u, nprlbes phariseg and hyp06Eitesl
iDr ye compass aea and land % make one PfoSelyto
and when Ne II made, ye make him two-ioId mors
die child Of he'll than yourselven.v
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st Scripture Ia confident way. How patiently
and politely the class would ait under his minleta