Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1912-04-10

vain: yea, and we are found false wit
nesses of God. Then they also
which are fallen asleep in Christ are per-
ished." q Cor. Nv. ii. 10. 49, He said:
The faith once delivered to the saints |
by Jesus and the Apostles in respect |
to the resurrection OF the dead has |
been very generally lost. Christian !
people profess belief in the resurrec-
ton. because they find il stated in the !
Bible. yet they are continually in diff !
Guilty in their endeavor to make the !
Scriptural teaching on the subject
square with some of the unscriptural
theories received into the Church and
Incorporated into many Of the creeds.
st. Paul warned the Church against
these human philosophers and called
them science, falsely so-called." which
make void the Word OF God. These
errors have been instrumental in divid-
ing the faith of Gods people into coo
different denominations. with COO diff
ferent professions. If Gods people
could all come back to the simplicity
OF the Bibles teaching, all of these diff
ferences would speedily disappear.
Gods Word would be seen to be beau
tiful and harmonious and satisfactory
to the consecrated intellect.
Tho Bible Resurrection Reasonable.
Really the doctrine OF the resurrec-
ton of the dead has been repudiated
by all denominations, not willingly.
not Intentionally, but perforce. as it
were An opposite theory received
and entrenched in the minds gives no
place for the doctrine of the resurrec-
ton as the Bible presents it. Conse-
quently we have twisted the doctrine
Of the resurrection and recite. Il be-
lieve in the resurrection of the body"
Yet. even this perverted view of the
resurrection is not satisfactory to
those wko hold it. They wish many Il
time that the doctrine OF the resurrec-
ton was not in the Bible, so much
| difference does it cause. For instance,
how inconsistent it seems that they
should say. Il believe in the resurrec-
ton OF the body" and then say, as
many do. Dying is but going home
getting rid OF the mortal flesh, and
being freed from its limita tons. If ii
is blessing to die and get free from
I
it be blessing to be reincarcerated in
the body, and be obliged to keep it
through all eternity?
There is nothing inconsistent in the
Bible presentation OF the resurrection.
Not from the Bible, but from men.
| comes the suggestion of the resurrec-
ton Of the body The Bible iBvaria bly,
refers to the resurrection OF the soul.
1t is the soul that dies; as We read
THE soul that sinneth IL shall die
Adam WAS created a living SOUL but
his living soul came under the death
sentence because he disobeyed God
IL was his soul that was redeemed
from death, not his body. Il will re
deem thy life QoOk up the word life tC
see if it is from the Hebrew word
meaning soul, and if so. add the WORD
SCHt after the word life. in parenthe
sis) from destruction.-Psalm Gill, f.
To accomplish this redemption we
read that Christ Jesus poured out
His soul unto death" He made Hi.
soul an offering for sin" Moreover
we are particularly told that it was
the soul of Jesus that was raised from
the dead: 81 will not leave Thy sou
in sheoL" st. Peter quotes this state
ment as prophetical of the resurrection
Of Jesus that His soul was not lief
In hddcS. With what body do the,
come? Is a totally different ques
ton. Some OF the dead souls. in TIL
resurrection. will GENE forth with spir
= il bodies, and others with human
bodies, according to the Bible. But tn
important point is that it is the sO1
the being, that comes forth. If the sou
! dies, as the Bible declares, then man
festly the soul should be resurrected.
J. Bible Made Veid by Tradition.
: The difficulty with us has been tina
we have made void the Word % God
v by our traditions" We received frOr
!. the Grecian philosophers a traditio
which Socrates and Plato both az
yocated, namely, that when a huma
being dies he does not really die. Th
soul. 1t is claimed. cannot die, bu
whenever the soul gets out Of the bod,
the body dies. How strange 1T seem
that we all accepted this philOsoph
without a word of Scripture. but wit
hundreds of Scriptures to condemn /
1t behooves us to take a decided stan
either with the Grecian philosopher
SD their theories, or with the Bibl
The two are in conflict and whoevs
attempts to hold both Is In confusion
Il II the dead are not dead. then no hi
man being Ia dead; and IL no one