Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1912-04-25


As19R RUssELD) the fact Of til,
e resurrection, a nc
showed from st. Paul's words that
without Gods purpose Of a resurrection
those who have fallen asleep in death
would have persisted as brutes.
You will recall also that we demon.
strated that it is not the body, but
the soul, that is promised resurrec.
tion-that it was our Lords soul tina,
went to sheol, to hades, to the death
state, and that. God raised Him from
death on the third day. We noted d
difficulty into which all Christendom
was plunged by the theory that it is
the body that is to be resurrected.
What Went to Heaven2
H The ordinary thought in Christian
minds in respect to Jesus death and
resurrection is that when He seemed
to die He did not die; that he. the be.
ing, the soul, could not die: that, In
stead, He went to heaven, and then on
the third day came back to get the
body which had been crucifed; that He
took it to heaven forty days later
marred with the print of the nails In
His hands and feet, the thorns upon
His brow and the spear mark in His
side. What CHASTITY thought!
Our Methodist friends have not vet
changed their statement Of the matter
namely, "He assembled up on high, TAX
ing His feshly body with Him, and all
that appertained thereto, and sat down
on the right hand Of Cod This medi-
eyal statement correctly admits that
the aeshly body was not the Lords,
but that He, the soul, took it with Him
as luggage. The statement, "And all
that appertained thereto" presumably
refers to sandals. walking stick, etc.
All this is Of a piece with the theory
that the saints when they die go to
heaven, and then, later. come back and
get their bodies land all things apper-
tanning thereto"-the inconveniences,
presumably, that they have been rid
Of for centuries! How many trunk
loads of things appertaining thereton
may be taken by some is not stated
5S@S What Say the Scriptures
& The Bible presentat ton of this sub
ject is every way reasonable, con-
sistent and Harmonious. st. Paul points
out that There is natural body and
there is a spirit body He does not.
mean, and he does not say. that the
spirit body is a human body glorifed.
Quite to the contrary. He declares
that flesh and blood cannot inherit
the Kingdom Of f.od' no matter how
glorified it might be- A human being
would be so totally different from a
spirit being that, as st. Paul says, ut
doth not yet appear what we shall be"
lin our changeand the Scriptures do
not evenattempt to give an EXPLANATION.
The Bible merely declares that as we
now bear the image OF the earthly
(Adam), we shall, BY the glorious res
change. be given~a share In
the nature and likeness Of the Second
Adam, our glorious Lord: We shall
be like Elm. and see Him as He Isl
and, be it noted, we must change from
flesh and blood conditions to spirit CON
ditions by resurrection power, in order
that we may see Him as He is.
5 He Appeared and Disappeared.
Two lines Of difficulties now present
themselves, one Of which can be an.
swered, and the other cannot. The
unanswerable difficulty5is where a nat
,lral minded man und ertakes to reason
the subject out. st. Paul explains this,
saying, The natural man receiyeth not
the things Of the Spirit of God, neither
can he know them, because they are
spiritually discerned. !"
The Apostle proceeds oversees S6-50)
to tell us that all men are natural men,
except such as have been begotten by
the Holy Spirit All natural men will,
In their resurrection, receive earthly or
human bodies, while all spiritual ones,
New Creatures in Christ, will receive
spirit bodies. NJ
3 Coming to the point OF what Is to be-
resurrected. we note that our Lord ap-S
peared in a body of flesh, and showed.
the Disciples the print of the nails and
the hole made by the spear But we.
perhaps, failed to note that only twice
did He thus appear, and but for a few
each time. His other six OF
seven appearances during that forty
days were also very brief, and III ynri-
GUS bodies once as a gardener, another
time as a traveller, His third time as
stranger on the shore, and to Saul of
Tarsus as 4 spirit being Of more than
angelic brightness shining above the
brightness Of the sun at noonda q
4 Now we see more distinctly why our
Lord did as He did His disciples were
natural men and therefore could not
appreciate spiritual things. The Lord
adopted the only reasonable way Of
helping them to understand that He
was nc longer dead thst He had risen
from the dead