The Parker post., 1912-05-11
EVERYBODY GOES
TO HELL, HE SAYS
WeIl-KnoWn Bible Student Has Orig
inal Ideas on Final Destination-De.
clares That He'll Is a Grave, and
That There Is No Fire There.

Alfred l. Ritchie, a bible student of
wide reputation in the United States
and Canada, declares that everyone
goes to hell Mr. Ritohie has some
interpretations on the bible that ap
pear sensational and along a new line
In recent interview he gave ont
some interesting information regard
ing various prominent bible subjects
that require more than ordinary con-
sideration to obtain their full mean
ing.
81 have a new cure for infidelity,'
declared Mr.. Ritchie. ''To prescribe
the remedy we must find the cause,
which l believe is the inability of the
people to understand how God of all
Love and Wisdom and Justice, an
having all Power, could permit pres
ent conditions and conduct human af
creeds in Christendom. Unbeliever
choke at the idea of the great Crea
or providing am eternity of any kind
of ,orture for His own creatures, eC
peciaIly if He was gifted with tn
fOreknOWledge that most of the human
family go there, and that He had al
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Power to do as He pleased. Truly
the general religious teaching ON thit.
line is foe to reason and the moth
of doubt.
The Bible GIorifies God.
"The bible, taken as whole, pre-
sents no such idea of our blessed
Heavenly Father, but praises, glorifie
and exallts His holy character. And Sc
when understood, it will be as natural
for average human beings to emulate,
love and praise God as it has been
in all human history for them to wor-
ship as leaders and heroes those whc
have shown greatness of character,
either in power or wisdom or benevo
lence. When rightly shown the char
acter of our God will compel the ad
miration and loyalty of the masses
finitely more than the character of
Caesar, OR a Napoleon, or an Edison,
or a Bryan, or a Roosevelt. What
is the reason that the character
God is so little reverenced, that th:
Holy Name of Himself and the Saw
iour are made the commonest ''cuss
words? We answer that it is because
His character is blasphemed by the er-
roneous ''hell' teaching of deceived
Christianity.
"Well did Pastor Russell, of the
Brooklyn, N. Y, Tabernacle say IF
the bible does teach that eternal tor
ture is the fate of all except saints
it should be preached, yea, thundered
weekly, daily, hourly! If lit does not
so teach, the fact should be made
known, and the foul stain dishOnOring
Gods Holy Name removed! I under
stand free copy of this pamphlet
Food for Thinking Christians, (which
examines every mention of hell in the
bible, can be had by addressing him.
Everybody goes to hell! Why? Be
cause hell is the grave, or a death
condition, to which good and bad alike
go to remain until the time of
resurrection, Judgment, and reStora-
ton to perfection of all the obedient.
The Hebrew word sheol is positively
the only hell word in the Old Testa-
ment It's Hebrew definition is the
unseen state, or the place of the dead
1t occurs sixty-fiNe times, and nowhere
is the word fire associated with it,
No Work in SheoI.
Solomon said, There is no work
nor device, nor knowledge i'm sheOl.
and he adds, whittier thou goest
Why? Because all i'm hell are dead.
Referring to the resurrection, the Re-
al reference reads -or the grave) de-
liver4d up the dead (not the liWing)
which were in Them
"Sheol is translated twenty-nine
times as HE'LL three times as pit.
and thirty-three times as grave Ian
the revised version, sheol is translat-
ed as hell only twenty times out of
the sixty-five times, and it's Greek
equivalent, 'hadeS, occurring eleven
times in the New Testament, is not
translated as hell at all, but is left
Intramslated, because the bible revis-
ers knew that it did not mean eternal
torment.
''Only sixteen out of siXty-six bible
books use the word hell, in the Eng
li6h translation. st. Paul wrote four
teen books of the New Testament