Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1912-10-21

necessary, therefore, that, in order t
become the Messlanic King, Jesui
must first be the Redeemer Of men
He must first provide the sacrifice fol
,ins. Then, applying It to the salts
faction Of Justice, afterward, by virtue
Of the right and authority thus secured
He could undertake the uplifting ant
blessing OF all mankind,
The AntitypioaI Blood AtOnement'
The great lessons taught by lsraeFs
experiences Of more than sixteen cen
turtles were:
Q) That all are sinners,
(2) That no sinner can justify himself.
(3) That an Atonement for Sin is nee
essary before Divine favor can be fully
obtained for Israel and all mankind.
() That since the penalty Is death,
only by sacrinclal death can sinners
be released from the death penalty.
We all know the arguments used by
those who oppose the Bible doctrine of
Blood Atohement for Sin, They claim
that It Is unnecessary, that God could
just as easily as not cancel all sin with
out requiring the death Of either bull
lock or a goat or Of The Man Christ
Jesus, or anybody else.
But are not such arguments illogicalf
Is 1t not illogical to suppose that the
great Supreme Judge Of the Universe
would make n Law and n penalty for
It, innlct the penalty justly, and after
wards set aside the penalty with
out reason7 Surely no earthly Judge
would do so, and surely Heavenly
Judge could not do so without infrac-
ting the principles of His own Govern
ment; for If 1t is right to impose a
death sentence as a penalty for sin,
and to allow that sentence to be in eff
feet for four thousand years before
Christ, and to allow our entire race to
suffer under It FOR that time, would 1t
not be unjust to afterwards institute
change, set aside the Law, the Curse,
the penalty for SIM Surely we all
agree to this!
Some, however, will say, Surely God
never made such a penalty. Why
should He make a penalty which would
cause the death Of His Son, or the
death Of anybody, to eradicate 1t, to set
It aside? We answer that God did
make such penalty; for 1t is manifest
that our entire race is n 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-innlcted 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.
UiOldble, but that His Justice is fully
equaled by His Lore,
"christ's Better Sacrifices"
IF the Jewish Law gave a hint that
sacrlnclal 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 1t at ALL
The sacrifice was Of proper kinda
llfe-but the life was not Of sufficient
value. Why2 Because the Law Of
Justice would not be satisfied to ac-
cept the death Of bullock and Of
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 a full Offset or Ransom for
his life; because the very meaning Of
the word Ransom is dHti-lutrOn-G cor
responding price,
So neither could an angels death re-
deem man, because 1t would not be
the giving Of 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 n corresponding price
Ransom-prce (Greek-dnt-lurOn).
TO redeem Father Adam required the
death Of a mar-and nothing more
nothing less, would do Therefore it
was that the Son Of God left the glory
which lie 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 Il Timothy ii, 3, @ that
The Man Christ Jesus gave Himself a
Ransom for all Thus the Apostle
again declares "As by a man [Adaml
came death lnot eternal torment, by
a 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."-l Corinthians XIV. 21. 30.
In this last text notice carefully (and
also everywhere else In the ScrIptures)
that the contrasts are not heaven and
hell, not JOY and suffering, but life and
dcdth-rcsurrection 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 a purgatoriOl penal
ty, but a death penalty. Christ died
for our sins, according to the Scrip.
tures.' Il Corinthians XIV, 81
We notice again that it was only the
one man Adam who was originally