Evening journal., 1912-04-06

errors which have gradually crystal
ized around the central truths Of Gods
Word. One of these errors is the sup
position that the resurrection OF the
dead, which the Scriptures hold torth
as the hope of the Church and OF the
world, is to be a resurrection OF tue
bodies which go down into deatn.
This mistake has given ground Tor
tniidelity TO sneer at this precious doc
trine of the Bible. We are asked
How could the dust which once con-
stituted the bodies of thousands OIL
millions of humanity ever be re-col-
Iected and rearranged so that wei
could say that those bodies we're
resurrected? The infidel urges that
many of humanity have been eaten
by fishes and animals. and many other
corpses have been absorbed by vegl-
tation. which in turn has been eaten
time and again by man and beast, en-
tering into many organisms. the
proposition Is manifestly unan-
swerable. vet it does not refute the
Bible teaching Of the resurrection, but
merely our creedal misapprehensions
of the Bible teaching. What the Bible
does teach is that the real man is the
soul, the being. and that he persists
while gradually his body keeps chang
ing-sloughing off.
Il was Mans Soul That Sinned--It
Was Mans Soul That Died.
Scientists estimated that the human
body undergoes complete change
every seven years. so that man fifty
years old will have lost seven differ
ent bodies through natural wastes.
None of those bodies was the man
himself for he is the soul, the intel
ligent personality, which used those
different bodies. According TO the
Bible, the process of reiuvenation
would have continued everlastingly
had man. by obedience, continued in
Divine favor and in enjoyment of the
everlasting life promised. II was SIN
therefore, that brought the death PEN
aIty-the death of the soul II was
Adams soul that sinned, il was
Adams soul that died-"In the day
that thou eateth thereof thou shalt
surely die" THE soul that sinneth
it shall die
The result Of this Divine sentence
upon man would have been extinction
--he would have been on the same
plane as The brute, without a provi-
sion for eternal life, had not God in
great mercy provided a redemption
that Jesus Christ by the grace OF
God should taste death for every
man" The death which Jesus expert
enced was exactly the same kind as
the one which destroyed Adam-the
soul of Jesus died. as the ransom
price for the soul Of Adam (includint
Adams posterity) Thus we read o.
Jesus: "He poured out His soul unto
death: He made His soul an oherinl
for sin"
II is by virtue Of this corresponding
price which Jesus paid that ultimatel.
Adam and all Of his postcrity, ever
soul OF man, will be granted releas
from the death penalty-a resurrec
t'on from the dead-not of the dea'
bodies, but of the dead souls. In tn
resurrection God win give to eacl
soul body as it has pleased Him.
I Cor. xv, 3S.
The few during this Age who hav
become followers OF Jesus, begottel
of the Holy Spirit, will be granite
remainder of mankind. not havin
been begotten Of the Holy Spirit, vii
in the resurrection be garnted hu
man bodies, the same as they previ
ously had; and their raising up vii
bring them eventually to all the pei
lection Of the first Adam. unless the
IGIucE lHt ~ cLt vi 1Nhs Ah W hAN
event they will die the Second Deatl
from which there is to be no resui
rection.
II is because God has provided fc
such a resurrection of the souls {
men that the Scriptures speak of hJ
manity as not being dead in the sam
sense that the brute beasts are dead
actually. On the contrary. they spea
OF the souls of men as being asleep
awaiting the resurrection, when the
shall be quickened to life. in conluu'
tion with the bodies which God wi
supply at that time-earthly bodies
mankind in general, heavenly bodi'
for the sanity few
Jesus Soul ReSurrecied.
st. Peter. on the Day of Pentecos
declared that the Holy Spirit then b
slowed came as result Of our r
deemers death and resurrection al
ascension On High. It proved that /
had appeared in heaven on behalf
those who desired to be His follower
His Bride class. st. Peter argu
backwards TO prove that while Il
sacrifice Of Jesus. finished at Calvar
was TO pay for Divine reconciliatio
nevertheless there could have been l
reconciliation IL Jesus had remains
dead Hence he laid stress upon Il
fact of His resurrection, and he r
minds us that this was foretold. II
Prophet David declared. Thou W
not leave My soul in sheol. nor suff
Thine Holy One to see corruption.
Acts ii, q
st. Peters quotation of this, in Z
Greek, substitutes the word hsdes {
sheol, showing that the two wor
have the same meaning-the ton
the state Of the dead. ST. Peter poir
out that the Prophet could not ha
used the word respecting himself
cause his soul was left in hades. a
his flesh did see corruption. st. T
ter said, David has not ascended
to heaven, and his sepulcher is vi
us 10 this day" (Acts H. 34l
proceeds TO point out that the wor
were prophecy of the resurrecti
OF Jesus, that His soul, poured out
death as the redemption price
Adams soul and for the race. "
not left in death. in sheol in had
but He was raised from the dead.
ST. Paul tells us that "He was 7
Il TO death in 1esh. but quickened
snirit - He declared that Jesus,
VI His resurrection. was exalted TO
higher than human nature, to
higher than the angelic nature
q above anEels and pricipalities a
powers-the divine nature.