The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1912-04-18

}Sccs:.ese1s.e-1a& Ivy day we discussed
\Ga2I2k kO2otll)j the fact Of the res
direction and show
ed from st. Paul's words that without
Gods purpose Of resurrection those
who have fallen asleep in death would
have periShed as Drutes. We followed
with the Apostle the assurances that
Christ did rise from the dead and be-
come the First-fruits Of all those who
have gone into the sleep OF death. 9th
ers, indeed, were awakened Temperate
ly-as. for instance, Jairus' daughter,
Lazarus the friend Of Jesus, and the
son OF the widow Of Main.
Yet none of those instances is count
ed as n resurrection, for it is said that
Christ is the FirSt-fruits Of those who
slept Their awakening was merely OF
temporary nature. and they soon re-
lapscd into the sleep Of death They
did not have a full resurrectiou-an
uSf0S'S-a raising up to perfection of
HE, such as the redemptiyc work of
Jesus guarantees to Adam and to all
his race willing to accept the same I'M
der the terms Of the New Covenant.
You VIII recall that on last Lord 5
day we demonstrated from the Scrip
lures that 1T Is not the body. but the son.
that is promised rcSurrertion-that it
was our Lords SOIL that went to shcOI
TO hadcs, to the death state, and that
God raised Him up from death on the
third day. We noted a difficulty into
Which all Christendom was plunged by
the unScriptural theory that it is the
body that is to be resurrectcd. We now
continue to search and note we'll fur
ther difficulties into which this error
plunged us as believers in the words Of
Christ. particularly in connection with
our RCdecmer's resurrection.
What Went to Heaven7
The ordinary thought in Christian
minds in respect to Jesus death and
resurrection is that when He seemed to
die He did not die; that He, the being,
the soul, could not die; that, instead.
lie went to Heaven, and then. on the
third day, came back to get the body
which had been crucilied: and that He
took 1t to heaven forty days later; that
lie has had that body ever since; and
That lie will have it to all eternity.
married with the pCint OF the nails in
His hands and feet, the thorns upon
lis brow, and sthe spear mark in His
side. What a CHASTITY thought How
strange that we should ever have been
misied into SO unscriptural and unrca-
SOnIble Il theory! Some endcavor to
gloss the matter by suggesting that our
Lords flesh IS glorified-that it shines
;he shining presumably making the
wounds all the more conspicuous.
Our Methodist friends have not vet
changed their statement Of the matter.
namely, lie assembled up on high, tax
ing lis Aeshly body with Him, and all
tEAt apDertained thereto, and sat down
on the right hand Of Cod" This me-
dicval statement correctly admits that
the hcShiy body was not the Lords,
but that lie, the soul. took it with Him
as luggage. The statement, land all
that &pDertained thereto" presumably
would refer to cur Lords sandals,
walking stick and such clothing as the
soldiers did not divide amongst them
at the tirde Of His crucilixion-if in
iced He had any others. But our dear
Methodist friends want to be sure that
nothing was left behind.
All this is Of piece with the theory
that the saints when they die go to
heaven, and then, later, come back ana
get their bodies, "and all things appcr-
tanning thereto''--tbo Inconvenience
that they have been rid Of for cen.
;urlcs. How many trunliloada OF
"things appcrtaining thereto" may 10
taken by sopc, and how mixed an as.
∨nient by others Is rot stated Nci-
Their are particulars given respecting
those whose clothing, etc, have mean
time worn out. But we have had
enough Of this, If it has helped us to
gee the absurdty Of our theories re-
rcircd frOm the Dark Agcs"-tf It has
awakened US to thought and to Bible
Investigation on this important and in
tcrcstjng subject
What Say tho Scriptures7
The Bible presentation of this sub
wort IS every say reasonable, consist
ont and harmnMiOuS. st. Paul points
OFT that 'thcrr Is n natural body and
there is q spirit bcdy." He does mob
moan and he G@cH not say that the
spirit bo0r e hIman body glorGcd.
Quite to ~" rD".rary. He declares
vat "Fl"'ir 1uI L'ood cannot inherit
'hc kinGGo'N O. tUI"~-no matter how
}lorifed il might &c. a human being
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