The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-10-14
ERRORS OF DEATH
Continued From PAGE Six,

Kingdom. I have sufficient faith to
ask you to grant a poor thief a bless
Ing when you reach that Kingdom.
MiSpIaeemsnt of Comma by Transla.
tors.
Jesus reply should be carefully stud
led. In substance it was, Poor thief, I
appreciate your words; and when My
Kingdom shall be established, I will
remember your kindness and will re-
ward it. Notwithstanding this dark
day with it's unfavorable setting, I am
really a King, and these experiences
are necessary for Me, that I may enter
int My Kingdom. Thus Jesus said,
Be 1t as you have asked-I will re-
member you when | come into possess
sion Of My Kingdom. Verify I say
unto you this day, thou shalt be with
Me In Paradise"
The difficulty has been with the
wrong thought of the translators, and
the displacement Of the comma.
Punctuation Is a modern convenience
In all languages. There is none in the
original Scriptures. The translators
put the comma wh@'e they thought 1t
should be. but evidently they made a
great mistake. 1t would be thoroughly
inconsistent to say that Jesus went to
Paradise, when He had not yet ascend
ed to the Father, and when the prom
lsed Paradise is to be established in
the earth after the Second Coming OF
Christ, as a result Of His Millennial
DISQUALIFICATION 21:4-5.
Placing the m where we have
done leaves the passage thoroughly In
accord with all the Bible. That pas.
sage, properly understood, leaves not
a shadow Of scriptural support to the
thought that a prayer a moment before
death would change the everlasting
destiny of anybody.
Both Thieves In Bible He'll.
Let us get back to the Bible. Let us
get rid Of the foolishness of the creeds. |
Let us remember that q dead man ia
dead, as the Bible declares. His sons
come to honor, and he knoweth 1t not;
they come to dishonor, but he per-
celveth 1t not Of them There Is nei-
ther device o knowledge nor wisdom
In Sheol [Hades, the tombl, whittier
thou goest"-whither all go.
But nothing In the Bible suggests
that man dies in the same sense as the
brute. There Is no hope for a future
life for the brute, but Gods Word
stands pledged for a future life for hu-
mainly. There shall be a resurrection
of the dead, both of the just and Of
the unjust" call that are in their
shall hear the voice Of the Son
of Man and come forth"
The Bible tells that unless Christ
had redeemed the life of mankind by
the sacrifice Of His own life, there
would have been no resurrection of
the dead. But from the foundation of
the world God purposed a resurrection;
and that Jesus should eventually be
the Lamb of God, to take away the sin
Of the world. GAS by a man TAdam1
death, by a man TJesus] comes
the resurrection of the dead: for as all
In Adam die, even so all in Christ shall
be made alive"-"every man in his own
Corinthians 1928.
Jesus Himself, we read, was the first
to rise from the dead-to be fully re-
leased from the power Of death. Laz-
arus, Jalrus' daughter, etc, were not
resurTected in full, but merely awak-
ened temporarily. They fell asleep In
death again, and will have in their
due time the Divinely appointed
opportunity for a resurrection.
According to the Bible, the Church
Will be the next in order, and will
a resurrection to spirit nature,
to that Of Jesus; hence the
Apostles desire to share in Christ's
resurrection by having a share In His
'acrifciaf death. For If we be dead
With Him, we shall also live with
Timothy Oil.
Next after the Church win come the
resurrection of the Ancient Worthless,
II whom John the Baptist was the
asst. Their resurrection was referred
by st. Paul in Hebrews II, where
le declares that "God has reserved
'ome better thing for us 1.-THE church,,
hat they without us should not be
made perfect"
Each In His Own ordor.
st. Paul declares that In the resur-
every man will come forth In
- own order, or band, or company.
Vhen the due time shall come for the
weakening Of the generation which
rucifed Jesus, quite probably both the
hteves Will come forth from death at
about the same time. Both thieves
vii receive the blessing purchased for
hem by the Redeemer's death-to be
brought to a knowledge of the Truth.
o be helped up out of ignorance, su.
'erstition, blindness - by rewards,
tripes, punishments-if they will, to
luman perfection, lost in Adam, re-
by Jesus.
But there will be a difference be-
ween the conditions Of the two
hieves. Both will be In Paradise; for
he whole earth is to be a Paradise.
he hardened thief may have had q {
ess favorable birth, or a less favor !
BILE environment in life. Only the
ord, the great Judge. Is able to know
ow much excuse should be made for I
Inn and how much penalty should at :
ach to him. {
The penitent thief will be much more 9
avorably conditioned, not merely be !
he spoke ON kindly words TO !
be Master in His hour of tribulation '
ut especially because those words In. t
fcate that his heart was In a more 4
lst and tender condition. Addition 7