The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1912-10-22

feet for four thousand years before
Christ, and to allow our entire race to
suffer under 1t for that time, would it
not be unjust to afterwards institute a
change, set aside the Law, the Curse,
the penalty for sin? Surely we all
agree to this!
Some. however, will say. Surely God
never made such penalty. Why
should He make penalty which would
cause the death of His Son, or the
death of anybody. to eradicate it, to set
It aside? We answer that God did
make such penalty; for it is manifest
that our entire race is a dying one,
which has been under the Reign Of
Sin and Death for six Great Days of
thousand years each. Moreover, the
Bible declares that God pronounced the
penalty-infiicted the death penalty as
we have it-for the very purpose and
object of the death of HIS Son, that
thus He might gire cridence, both to
angels and to men. that His Lao Is in
Vi0IaJle, but that His Justice is fully
equaled by His Lore
"Christ's Better Sacrifices"
If the Jewish Law gave hint that a
sacrifcial death would be necessary
for the cancellation Of human sin, it
also gave hint that the death of bulls
and of goats was not sufficient for the
cancellation of human sin; because the
sacrifices of the Jewish Atonement
Day merely covered sin for one year,
and did not actually cancel it at all
The sacrifice was of a proper kinda
life-but the life was not of sufficient
value. Why? Because the Law Of
Justice would not be satisfied to ac-
cept the death of a bullock and of a
goat as the equivalent for the forfeit
ed life of Father Adam. If an angel
had sinned and been condemned to
death, only the death of an angel of
the same grade and state would have
constituted full offset or Ransom for
his life; because the very meaning of
the word Ransom Is dnti-latr0n-G cor
responding price.
So neither could an angels death re-
deem a man, because it would not be
the giving of a price to correspond.
Neither could our Redeemer, In His
pre-human condition, as the Logos, the
Word, have given His life for Father
Adam and the race, because that would
not have been a corresponding price
a RansOm-price (Greek-GRti lutrOn)
To redeem Father Adam required the
death of a mGH-and nothing more,
nothing less, would do Therefore it
was that the Son of God left the glory
which He had with the Father as the
Logos and was made flesh, and became
The Man Christ Jesus, .that He, by
the grace of God. might taste death for
every man."
In harmony with this, st. Paul writes
to Timothy q Timothy Ii, 5, 81 that
The Man Christ Jesus gave Himself a
Ransom for all. Thus the Apostle
again declares. "As by man [Adaml
came death mot eternal torment, by
man also [Christl comes the resur-
rectiOn of the dead for as all In Adam
die even so all In Christ shall be made
alive."-I Corinthians Nv, 81, %.
In this last text notice carefully (and
also everywhere else in the Scriptures)
dell, not JOY and suffering. but life and
death life through Christ.
death by Adam. Notice also that the
penalty paid for Adams sin by The
Man Christ Jesus is not an eternal tor
ment penalty, nor purgatorial penal
ty, but death penalty. Christ died
for our sins. according to the Scrip
lures" q Corinthians XIV, 81
We notice again that 1t was only the
one man Adam who was originally
tried, sinned and was sentenced to
death: that all of our race suffered
death and its degradation by heredity
and not by virtue of death sentence:
hence 1t was possible that the death
Of The Man Christ Jesus should con
stitute full Offset to the demands OF
Justice against Father Adam, anG
would incidentally include all OF
Adams race.
The Real Sin Atonement-
God arranged Israei's typical Atone
ment Day as a type of the real Atone
ment Day, which began at Jesus bap
hsm and has continued ever since, and
will continue for another THOUSAND
years In the future The killing of the
bullock on behalf Of the priestly fam
lily found It's antitype in the death Of
Jesus, which began with His consecra-
! ton at Jordan and was completed at
| Calvary, three and a half years later.
As Man, Jesus offcrGJ up sacrlficial-
ly His human nature. the body which
He had taken for the special purpose
of sacrifice That sacrifice was salts
factory to God, as was indicated by
His raising up Jesus from the dead.