The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-11-25

:, ors ,bodi such wisdom and
,iebteonsness as approached God, and
IN which God was reflect ted, !. e. ~
man were given the gifts OF the
knowledge Of God, the fear OF G ~
confidence in God and the IKE. ,., 4 tn
agrees with the Bible, (Col. III ~
"The new man which is belng renew
ed into knowledge, after the l!!aSo ~
Him that created him." ana !Epn. ~,
24l Put on the new man, which alter
ga hath been created in righteous
ness and holiness of truth" IL Gou
were bodily corporal and also I'M
| changeable and everywhere present.
| then must He needs be visible. MI:
| Shackow. however, will hardly admlI
that he has seen God. The mormon
! doctrine Of God is both unscrlptufa
and absurd, it is fundamentally wrong.
On creation. Mr.. Shackow flippantly
| remarks. at strikes us as strange
that God could make so much out OF
nothing and then need a little dust
| and a rib to finish it up with" he
| evidently believes in the eternity OIL
matter. So there must be two eter.
nails: God and the thing God made!
Another absurdity: Mormonism does
| not distinguish between immediate
and mediate creation" BY the form
err. we mean 1.-THE act by which God
brought into being that which had no
| pre- existence except in His thought.
It is a truth to be believed. (Heb. X1,
81 "By faith we understand that the
worlds have been framed by the word
| Of God, so that what is seen hath not
been made out of things which ap-
| pear"
Mr.. Shackow further says: "The
| doctrine Of original sin and sprinkling
| Of infants are relics Of the dark ages.
From this I infer that he is a spiritual
| descendant Of the Anabaptists Of old
who emerged from the dark ages as
barnacles on the hull of the Protestant
cause. Like them, he is wiser than
Gods revealed truth, and so stupid
that he cannot read the universal his
tory Of man omen, women and chill
dren) emblazoned on the pages Of all
history. T will cite but a few Scripture
proofs: (Gen. ii, II I'm the day that
thou eatest thereof, thou shalt surely
de-" (Rom. vi, 23) "The wages of sin
is DEATH" (Rom. V, 12) Through n
man sin entered into the world, and
death through sin; and SO death pass
ed upon all men, for that all sinned;"
Cps. II, s. Behold I was shapen in
in1quity and in sin did my mother
conceive me-" Cps. xiv, 2-3) "The
Lord looked down from heaven upon
the children Of men, to see if there
were any that did understand and seek
God. They are all gone aside, they
are all together become filthy; there is
none that doeth good, nc, not one"
q Cor. XIV, 22) For as in Adam all
die, so also in Christ shall all be made
alive"
1t is clear that he who denies uni
versal, original sin, robs Christ of His
glory as the Savior Of all men. Yes,
the Lutheran church blesses God for
Jesus Christ whom she acknowledges
as her only Lord; and she has not
yet grown weary Of preaching Christ
crucifieh, unto the Jews (even as the
Mormons, Boosting that they alone
are Gods chosen people, "a stumbling
block. n unto the Greeks foolish
ness" For this reason, also, she uses
Gods saving means of grace mi of
which Is holy baptism, which she ap-
plies to all nations with all their peo-
pie as Jesus commanders: Matt.
xviii, 19) For the promise is unto
you, n to your children, and all that
are afar off, even as many as the Lord
our God shall call" (Acts ii, 38-39)
There are other points in Mr..
Shackow's communication that might
be referred to and showed up in all
their heretical fallacy by the light Of
Gods word, but both time and space
forbid. With the concluding part of
his article we nave no interest. Mr..
Shackow there ~endeavors to apologize
for his particular branch Of Mormon
ism; to show that Josephites are more
faithful followers of the prophet
Smith and true to his book than the
Brighamites of Utah. Both are fun
~damentally in error, as judged by the
Bible. Polygamy, which is so promi-
nent a feature in the Utah system,
(they have never r~epudiated the doc
trine. though protesting to have abol-
ished the practice of it!) is after all
subordinate to the main doctrines Of
this latter day cult. Both are leading
people astray and endangering their
lives for this world and the next.
What u time needs is more rightly
called preachers with deeper vision of
the old revelation Of God in Christ
Jesus and with wider vision of he
subtle dangers Of the false philoso-
plies and doctrines of men, so zeal
ously ~propagated by self elected
prophets. The text of my sermon to
conference prov. xxx, 1S-"Where
there is nc vision the people perish.")
is still a word in season. And while
the sermon may not have been so per-
feet as desired, nor so powerful as