Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1912-04-13


"Why Christ Arose
from the Dead"
his text, III Christ
lPASl0R RUSSEll] be not risen, then
Is our preaching
vain, and your faith also vain; yea,
and we are found false witnesses Of
God. Then they also which
are fallen asleep In Christ are perish
cd" Il Corinthians xv, "a, 10, 49, He
Bald--
The faith oncs 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 a belief in the resurrection, be-
cause they find It stated 10 the Bible,
yet they are continually in difficulty
in their endeavor to make the Scrip
tural teaching on the subject square
with some Of the unscrlptural theories
received into the Church, and incor'
porated into many Of the creeds during
the Ozark Ages"
81. Paul warned the Church against
these human philosophers, and called
them science, falsely so called" which
makes void the Word Of God These
errors have been instrumental In dlyid'
ing the filth Of Gods people into six
hundred denominations, with six hun
dred different professions II Gods
people could all come back to the sim
pllcity Of the Bibles teaching In re-
spect to the resurrection Of the dend,
all Of these differences would speedily
disappear Gods Word would be seen
to be beautiful and harmonious, satls'
factory to the consecrated intellect, as
none of our seetarlan crccds are.
Really the doctrine Of the resurrec'
tIon OF the dead has been repudloted
by all denominations. not willingly, not
Intentionally. but perforce as It were.
An opposite theory received and In
henched In the minds gives no place
for the doctrine OF the resurrection, as
the Bible presents t. Consequently
we have twisted the doctrine OF the
resurrection and reclte, 81 believe In
the resurrection Of the body"
Yet even this perverted view Of the
resurrection Is not satisfactory to those
who hold It. They wish many time
that the doctrine OF the resurrection
were not IN the Bible, so much dlf.
ference does It cuuse For Instance,
how Inconsistent Il seems that they
should say, II believe In the resurree-
tlon Of the body" and then say, as
many do, Dying Is but going home, get
ting rid OF the mortal 6esh and being
freed from its limitations II Il is a
blessing TO die aud get free from the
limitations OF the body, how could Il
be blessing to be relncarcerated IN
the body, aud be obliged TO keep II
through all eternlty9 Such is the in
consistency OF the resurrection, how.
ever from the general view
Tho Bible Resurrection Reasonable.
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 invariably
refers TO the resurrection OF the SOUL
Il is the soul that dies; as we read,
''The soul that slnneth, II shall die"
Adam was created n living soul, but
his living soul came under the death
sentence because he disobeyed God.
II was bis soul that was redeemed
from death, not his body. ~ win re.
deem thy ne 0ook up the word lifo to
see II lt IN from the Hebrew word
meaning soM and n SO, add The word
soul after the word ne, In parcnthesisl
from destruction Psalm elf. 4.
10 accomplish this redemption we
read that Christ Jesus poured out His
soul unto death" lie made His soul
an Offering for Hln." Moreover we ure
particularly told that Il was the soul
Of Jesus that was raised from the
dead; "rhou wilt not leave My soul In
shcoi' st. Peter quotes this statement
us nrophetlcal OF the resurrection Of
Jesus that Ills soul was not left IN
Aades; God raised Jesus from the dead
ON the third day With what body do
they conner IL totally different Ques.
tlon Some Of the dead souls, In the
resurrection, win come forth with splr.
Il bodies, and others With human bod.
les, according to the Bible hut tho
important point Is. that II is the soul,
the being that comes forth. that Is rea.
urrected-not the body. n the soul
dies as the Bible declares, then mani.
festly the soul should be resurreeted.
The dlncul,y with as has been that
we "have made void the Word OF
Cod" by our "tradltlonsr We recelv.
cd from the Grcclau philosophers a ira.
dltlon which Socrates aud Plato both
advocated, namely, that when q hu'
man being dies he does not really die.