The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1912-04-16

showed from st. Pauls words that
without Gods purpose Of resurrection
those who have fallen asleep in death
would have perished as brutes.
You will recall also that we demon
strated that it is not the body, but
the soul, that is promised a resurrec-
tion-that it was our Lords Soul that
went to sheoL, to hGdeS, 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 is
the body that is to be resurrected.
What Went to Heaven?
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 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 crucifed; that He
took it to heaven forty days later
marred with the print of the nails III
His hands and feet, the thorns upon
His brow and the spear mark in His
side. What CHASTITY thought!
Our Methodist friends have not yet
changed their statement Of the matter.
namely, "He ascended up on high, tax
ing His heshly body with Him. and all
that appertained thereto, and sat down
on the right hand Of Cod" This medl-
eyal 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 a piece with the theory
that the saints when they die go TO
heaven, and then, later, come back and
get their bodies "and all things apper-
tanning thereto"-the Inconvenience,
presumably, that they have been TIC
of for centuries! How many trunk
loads of things appertaining thereto"
NAV be taken by some is not stated.
What Say the scriptures!
The Bible presentation Of this SUBJ
iect is every way reasonable con-
sistent and harmonious. st. Paul points
out that There is a natural body ana
there is a spirit body" BE does not
mean and he does not say, that the
spirit body is a human body glorhed
Quite to the contrary. He declares
that "fesh and blood cannot inherit
the Kingdom of God'-no matter how
glorifed it might be. A human being
would be so totally different from
spirit being that. as St. Paul says III
doth not yet appear what we shall be
in our change-and the Scriptures 90
not evenattempt to give an explanation
The Bible merely declares that as we
now bear the image of the eartnv
(Adam), we shall. by the glorious res
direction change. be given share ID
the nature and likeness of the Second
Adam. our glorious Lord: I'VE snail
be like Him. and see Him as He IS
and be it note1. 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.
He Appeared and Disappeared.
Two lines of difficulties now present
themselves, one of which can be an
svered. and the other cannot. The
unansverable difficulty is where nat
nral minded man undertakes to reason
the subiect out. St. Paul explains this
saving The natural man receiveth not
the things OF the Spirit of Cod neither
can he know them, because they are
spiritually discerned."
The Apostle proceeds (verses 3o-oo'
70 tell us that all men are natural men,
except such as have been begotten by
the Holy Spirit. All natural men WILL
in their resurrection, receive earthly OF
human bodies, while all spiritual ones
New Creatures in Christ, will receive
spirit bodies.
Coming to the point of what IS to Dc
resurrected, we note that our Lord ap
peared in a body Of flesh, and showed
the disciples the print Of the nails ano
the hole made by the spear. But we
perhaps, failed to note that only twice
did He thus appear, and but for a re"
moments each time. His other SIX OF
seven appearances during that tort!
DAYS were also very brief, and In Varl
Gus bodies-once as a gardener, another
time as a traveller, His third time as
stranger on the shore, and to Saul O.
Tarsus as a spirit being of more thai
angelic Misunderstanding above th'
brightness Of the sun at MONDAY
Now we see more distinctly why on
Lord did as He did His disciples were
natural men and therefore could no
appreciate spiritual things. The Lore
adopted the only reasonable way o
helping them to understand that 81
was no longer dead-that He had risel