The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1912-04-25


showed from st. Paul's words that
without Gods purpose of a resurrection
those who have fallen asleep In death
would have perishcd as brutes.
You will recall ALSO that We demon
strated that 1t Is not the body. but
the soul. that Is promised resurrec
tion-that 1t was our Lords soul that
went to sheoi. to- hddes. to the death
state, and that God raised Him from
death on the third day. We noted
difficulty into which all Christendom
was plunged by the theory that it IL
the body that is to be resurrected.
What Went T. Hsavsnf
The ordinary thought in Christian
minds in respect to Jesus dsath asd
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 crucified: that He
took it to heaven forty days later
marred with the print of the nails IL
His hands and feet. the thorns upon
His brow and the spear mark in His
side. What ghastly thought!
Our Methodist friends have not yet
changed their statement of the matter.
namely. He ascended up on high. tax
ing His fleshly body with Him. and ali
that appertaincd thereto. and sat down
on the right hand Of God" This medi
eval statement correctly admits that
the feshly 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 piece with the theory
that the saints when they die 60 to
heaven, and then, later, come back and
get their bodies land all things apper-
tanning thereto"-the Inconvenience,
presumably. that they have been rid
of for centuries. How many trunk
loads of things appertaininS thereto
may be taken by some is not stated.
What Say the seripturss7
The Bible presentation of this sub
Aject is every way reasonable, con-
Ssistent and harmonious. st. Paul points
out that There is IL natural body and
there is IL spirit body" He does not
mean, and he does not say. that the
0 spirit body is a human bcd% Glorifed,
Quite to the contrary. He declares
that "fesh and blood cannot inherit
the Kingdom of Gcd' matter now
glorified it might he. y human being
would lie so totally different from
spirit being that. as st. Paul says. III
doth not vet appear what we shall he
in our change-and the Scriptures do
not even attempt to give an explanation.
The Eible merely declares that as we
now bear the image of the earthly
1Adam, we shall. by the glorious res
direction change be given Il share in
the nature and likeness of the Second
Adam, our glorious Lord: I'VE shall
be like Him, and see Him as He is
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.
Hs Appeared and Disappeared.
Two lines Of difficulties now present
themselves, one of which can be an
svered, and the other cannot. The
unanswerable difficulty is where nat
ural minded man undertakes to reason
the subject out ST. Paul explains this.
saving. ..The natural man receiveth not
the things Of the Spirit Of God. neither
can he know them. because they are
spiritually discerncd.
The Apostle proceeds (vcrscs 36-"o'
to tell us that all men are natural men.
except such as have been begotten ny
the Holy Spirit. All natural men WILL