The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1910-04-18


Of faith7to ChristendoIn.
Thinking minds are rejecting the
doctrine Of eternal torment aud gener:.
ally ut the same time rejecting the
Bible and denying that It Is the In.
spfred Word Of God. These dear
friends are stumbling into lniidelityi
and think that Higher Criticism and
Darwin's Evolution theory are new
light. What they need IL to see that
the true light Is in the Bible and that,
wearing our grandfathers' spectacles.
we inherited the Word Of God and
wrested it to our own injury and to
the loss Of our peace of mind and fell
lowship with the Father and with the
Son and with the holy Spirit.
The Key to the Scriptures.
Whoever gets tile proper understand.
ing of our text has in his possession
the Key to the Bible. II he will use
1t, passage after passage will open for
him and the whole Word Of God be.
comes new and glorious revelation
Of Justice. Wisdom. Love and Power
Divine. Jonah was in the fish's belly
he was buried alive. 1t is this that
is referred TO in Sonr,text. The words
hell.belly signify 0rGpe-bellv or belly
graue Thetcontezt shows NIL this,
telling us additionally that sea=weeds
were wrapped about the Prophets
head and that God heard his prayer
and delivered him from the hell-Dellv,
or beHHOrqre. ougthe third day by
causing the flsh to yomit hlmaupS &c
you have areference Bible note that
lnsthe mnrein thereiis reference TO
the words Of oupatext. saying. He
brew, the grave. sspAh! says one, The
translatorss merely made mistake
and translated it BeIIwhen they should
have translated it grare.t Yes Il IAN
swer, and they made the same mis-
take in every casein which they used
the same word sheol throughout the
Old Testament. Is. Skeol is trans
lated grave more tfmes,than It is trans.
lated hellin our Common Version; but
itshould be translated craze every time.
There we have the Key to the Bible.
The hell OF the Bible. the penalty for
sin, is death. the grave. the tomb. 1t
IS not an everlasting hell, for special
Scriptures declare that sheOt DELI shnll
be destroyed. II will ransom them
from the power Of the OrGre tsheoD: |
will redeem them from death; o death,
will be thy plaques; o grave (sheol.
helD i will be thy destruction" Hosea
kill, 14). st. Paul quotes this prophecy
in conjunction with his great discourse
on the resurrection. 70 death. where
is thy sting? o grave MadesD where is
thy victory" q Corinthians XIV. So.
We see, dear friends. what our dear
Redeemer suffered on our behalf TO re-
lease us from the penalty for sin. He
did not go to eternal torment for our
sins. he did go into Sheoi. into hafes,
into the Craze. Christ died for our
sins. according to the Scriptures" Il
Corinthians xv, 81. Thus God has pro-,
yided for the resurrection Of the dead
all mankind, "both Of the Inst and Of
the unjust" The inst are the Church,
the saints. The unjust include all 9th.
ers. The blood of Jesus will avail for
the release Of every member Of the
race from the great penalty Of death.
Now 1t operates under n special call
to the sanity few who are invited to
become jolpt-heirs with the Redeemer
in his great Kingdom which shortly Is
to bless all the families of the earth
not only those then living, but also al
who have gone down to the tomb. The
general resurrection will not be an in-
Simultaneous one. as in the case Of the
saints. 1t will be q gradual one in
two senses.
~ All will not come forth at once,
but, as the Apostle declares, EVERY
man in his own order" company or
band q Corinthians ", 23l.
(2) It will be gradual IN the sense
that the awakening, from the tomb will
be but the beginning Of the resurrec.
ton OF the world. During the thou
sand years Of Chrlst's reign all who
win give heed to, Ills instructions and
assistance may rise gradually up,
upland by the close Of the Millennium
they will reach the full perfection and
image Of God lost by Father Adam
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