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he says: Our Lords human body was
however, supernaturally removed from
the tomb, because, If it had remained
it would have been an insurmountable
obstacle to the faith Of the disciples
who. were not yet instructed IN spiritual
things, because the Spirit was not yet
given. We know nothing about what
became of 1t, except that it did not de-
cay or corrupt" Listen to this:
Whether it Chat is, the body OF
Christi was dissolved into gases, OF
whether it is still preserved some
where as a grand memorial of Gods
love, of Christ's obedience, and of our
redemption, no one knows, nor is such
knowledge necessary" Sahemi shame
shame! To say that the body of Christ
did not rise is rank inAdelity and un-
belief of a positive statement of Scrip
ture and strikes at the foundation Of
the Christian religion. Hear Russell
again just a little farther on: Hen &c
it will not surprise us if in the king
dom, God shaG show to the world the
body of flesh, Vrucified for all in giving
Himself a ransom in their behalf, not
permitted to corrupt. but to preserve,
as an everla sting testimony of infinite
love and obedience"
Pastor" Russell says that in the
resurrection of Christ that Christ was
a spirit being and that He was no
longer a human body in any sense.
Millennial Dawn, Vol. L. p. 231. he
positively declares that Jesus was a
spirit, after He arose from the grave.
Now let the reader turn and read
Luke 24:36-43. after Christ arose He
said: "A spirit hath not flesh and
bones as ye see me have" He ate
bread and fish at the seaside. Can an
immatertal spirit eat material food as
Christ did here? Can a spirit have
flesh and bones?
There shall be a resurrection of both
the just and the unjust. I Cor. Is
describes the resurrection Of the just
who live by faith, the saved. 1t is
not an absolutely new body that is
given to them: it is the old body re-
deemed (taht is brought back) made
over anew, and glorifed, like the body
Of Christ. God will do this very thing.
For our citizenship is in heaven:
whence also we wait for a Savior, the
Lord Jesus Christ: who shall fashion
anew the body of our humiliation, that
1t may be conformed to the body of his
glory according to the working where
by he is able to subject all things unto
himself" (Phil. $40, 21.)
This doctrine is of the greatest i'm
portance Pastor Russell denies the
resurrection of the body as we have
shown above. He teaches that both
Christ and Christians are spirit be-
ings" after the resurrection. We are
told that Christ could assume any sort
of body for a time. His body was
nailed on the cross, what became of it ?
Literally it was "spirited away" hid
den by angels is keeping it for 2 mem
orial to show US in the future.
The body in which He appeared TO
Thomas and told him to put his fingers
in the prints of the nails, and thrust
his hands into His side and prove that
it was the same body that was cruel
fed John 2O:2D that was not His
real body at all according to Pastor
Russell. When Jesus said: See my
hands and my feet, that it is I my
self; handle me, and see7 for a spirit
hath not flesh and bones. as We see me
have"-that was not a material body
only a phantom. 1t would be difficult
to see if that were true, in what, re-
spect the Lord Jesus had any resur-
rection at all. What was it that was
raised again the third day? Mr..
Russell does not believe a person exists
apart from the body. He believes when
a man dies, he ceases to exist, nothing
survives There is no spiritual entity
to be brought back. Pastor Russell
asserts that the body is not resurreCt-
ed Now what was raised? In what