The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1910-05-12
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.
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away lfom GOd, they are weary of
feeding on the husks of words which,
no matter how beautiful they may be,
rail to bring any proof of their truth.
When the infallible Principle Of
Christian Science Is absolutely fol-
lowed, we shall reach the Fathers
house, solve all life's problems. and
realize in full the meaning of the an
gelic chorus, GLORY to God in the
highest and on earth peace, good will
toward men"
AS to Chastlsemen7.
At this point some one might ask,
IL what you say is true, what are you
going to do with the Biblical prom
Use, Whom the Lord loveth he chas-
teneth2' shall not change a word of
the Bible in order to explain this, but
will call your attention to something
you all know, namely, that the Bible
which we read is translation into
English from the original tongues,
made by a number of men chosen for
that purpose by King James Of Eng
land The Greek verb paideuo, trans
lated ny these men into English as
''chasten," means to instruct or direct,
and nothing else. Liddell and Scott in
their Greek Lexicon given as the first
meaning of this word, "To rear or
bring up children" Joseph Henry
Thayer, Professor of New Testament
Criticism in the Harvard Divinity
School, says that in classic Greek it
means ito train children" In his
Memorabilia" Xenophon uses this
word in the passage, He trained both
soul and body"
While the preponderance of opinion
amongst commentators is that paideuo
in New Testament usage means to
chasten, Liddell and Scott, Thayer and
Cremer all state that chasten. is not
the original meaning of this word, but
is later or derived meaning, and
Cremer adds the statement that it is
an ecclesiastical one. The facts are,
that l Timothy, 1920, Timothy, 2:25,
and Titus, PIP, the verb paideuo in
the King James version Is resps ctive-
ly translated learn" 0iterally, be
taught, instruct" teach" In He
brews, 1873 the noun paideutas is rem
dered by Cremer as instructor or
teacher. 1t seems unreasonable to as
sumo that among contemporary writ
ers upon the same subject, a given
word could have been used with such
widely different meanings. OF course
words change materially from cen
fury to century, but this would not ex-
plain the variation in the use of the
word between the epistle to the He
brews, written in "a A. D., respective
ly, When this passage, Whom the
Lord loveth he chasteneth," is render
ed into English as it is literally writ
ten in classic Greek, would read,
Whom the Lord loveth he instruct
eth," aud it thus becomes another
proof of the Christian Science teach
ing as to the abnormal nature of SIM
which Christ destroyed in conformity
with the law of God.
Temptation Never from God.
In order that there may be sin there
must be temptation, and in order that
there may be temptation there must
be sin, and they both must proceed
from the same source. Is this source
God or mankind? If it be God, we
are lost! If it be mankind, we are
saved Let this question be answer
ed for us by James and John. James
writes, LET no man say when he is
tempted, / am tempted of God: for
God cannot be tempted with evil,
neither tempteth he any man: but
every man is tempted, when he Is
drawn away of his own lust, and en-
ticed Then when lust hath conceived,
bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is
finished bringeth forth DEATH" John
writes, whatsoever is born of God
land as God is the only creator, none
is truly born nor may be unless he is
born of God doth not commit sin; for
his seed remaineth in him: and he
cannot sin, because he is born of
God" Dare we, in the face of James
statement that lust is the origin OF sin,
and Johns statement that "whosoever
is born of God cannot sin, be-
cause he is born of God" ever again
associate the name or nature of God
with sin?
Paul says that God is no respector
of persons" Do we believe this? Most
of us will say to ourselves, "Oh, yes"
but let US see if we do. So long as we
believe sin, disease, and death to be
real, just so long do we believe that
God, either directly or indirectly is
responsible for them. AS we look
around us and see one man afflicted Ct
say it advisedly) with millions OF
money, another with the direst pow
erty; one having perfect health, an
other with ill-health one with joy I'M
SD6dkdUle, anu dAOIuCl VIII IhioOly
aud poverty, the despair, or the i'll
health, can we from the bottom of our
hearts say we believe that God is no
respector of persons?' Some one near
to us is stricken with mortal illness,
and we kneel and pray that the illness
may be taken from the loved one; that
the person may live. If this Illness
is from God, it is good; and why do
we pray that he or. she may be reliev-
ed from tiff 1t is good? If we be-
lieve that God sent the sickness, and
yet pray that it be removed, that the
afflicted person may live, has not the
physician who is attending that patti
ent--if he believes that God sent the
disease-just as much right to pray
to God, at the same time, that the Ill
ness may continue in order that he
may live?
Scientific Prayer.
Mankind says God is immutable and
hpn millions