The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1910-07-25

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soue extent has neuiraiiscd The clleet
OF our errors.
4 Starting from their mlSundefsthnd-
ling 81 Bible TEACHINGS respecting The
.wages OF sin. Brother Luther and his
noble companions battled RtIas CIV for
many truths, hut mad one great blum.
der. When they concluded that Plir:
t'gatory was contrary 20 .tlie Scriptures
and threw it away. nor seeing Tie
Bible; hell. the tomb. they adopted an.
other hell and thereby went from bad
to worse on this subject. They said.
The heather and the masses Of the
civilized are surely not saints-surcly
they do not follow In the footsteps OF
Jesus surely. therefore. they cannot
be of his spiritual flock. Concluding
,thdt these could not he taken to heav-
en-, they said, We must take them out
of Eursatory anyway, wherever VIC put
them. because we have found out that
there Is no such placeas Rurgatory.
After Conferences. seriously dtslik-
Ing to make out Gods character worse
than they formerly supposed, they
said under their breaths. We must
take them out OF Pprgatory md quick
ly put them into hell of eternal tor.
turc and say as little about the mat
ter as possible. Tliey were grcatly
relieved when long-headed Brother
John Calvin explained 70 them about
the mere handful going 10 heaven and
the great mass going TO eternal tor
ture." he explained that God had fore
ordained and predestinatcd these aw.
full rcsults-tlat he might show. his
wisdom and his power. AS to a
Love divine. all love cxcclling,'. -
Brother Calvin seems never to have
thought of that. Brother Wesley and
Others since, though less logical and
Theological, did stand up for and de-
clare the Love Of God, even though
rather absurdly they claimed that he
was neither wise enough nor powerful
enough to do more than rescue mere
handful of Adams race from the eter-
nal torture to which they thought God
damned them all because Of the DISC
bcdience In Eden. 4'5 ::
"Ail In Adam-All In Christi
In the light OF our better Bibles and
Bible Study Helps and minds freed
from the ignorance and superstitions
of the past we may understand the
Apostles words and find In them, not
only justice and love. but harmony and
beauty. Instead of all mankind going
to eternal torment for Adams sin, nil
go into the Bible hell, the grave, on
account Of his sin-and nil Of the men.
tai, moral and physical blemishes ,of
our race IRE part Of this heredity.
There woGld have been no hope Of n
future life. good or bad, had not God
in his mercy provided the Savior-tLe
Life Giver," MS the Syrlac renders the
word. In Gods due time lie set before
his Son the opportunity Of becoming
mans Reueemer. The Logos was mtde
flesh John !, 14) and obcdicntly gave
himself in death-"tasted death for
every man. AS by one mans diSobfii-
enco the sentence Of death passed upon
all Of the race. even so by the oJcdichct
of the man Christ Jesus unto death
justification 10 life passed for allEot
that race. Now we see the wise fea-
son for permitting the sentence to pass
through one mans dis6bcdience to
NIL of his posterlty. 1t was in or.
der that one sacrifice for sin might
make possible the reconciliation OF the
entire race. S ASS ia ~
Now read our text and drink In its
depths and beauty and force. The
resurrection of mankind from the sin
and death and tomb condition TO the
full perfection and Image of God from
which the race fell is the salvation
which God has provided for all. Who
ever will fail to attain the full recov-
cry from sin and death conditions will
have himself TO blame because Of re-
lection of the glorious arrangements
which God made In and through Christ.
"The First Resurrection"
God divides the salvation of .mau-
kind into two PARASITIC Church to
spirit nature and the world to perfect
ed human nature. The first he is ac-
comprising during this Gospel Age;
the second he will accomplish through
Christ and the Church during Mes
siah's reign Of thousand years. 4
The Church. the little flock" of
saints. called. tried. tested. in the mar.
row way during this Age. are to con-
stitute the "FIrst Resurrection" class
and to become 'the Bride of Christ"
"the Church Of the First Borns."
These are 10 be associated with the
great Redeemer In his future work.
These shall be like him, changed from
earthly to heavenly nature and made
sharers Of his glory, honor and i'm
mortality. The Kingdom Of God un-
der the whole heavens will be inaugu-
rated after the Qualification Of the
Church and then will begin the bless.
ing. the salvation. the uplifting, the
resurrechng. of mankind In general
from sin and death condltions-not to
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