The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-04

| piCSC11CS VI heaven on 6drTh LhaI
makes sure a heaven hereafter.
! EvERYB0DY'S Bible BOX.
Odd Christ die for every man or
only for the Church? If we say that
He died for the world does not that
mean every individual member of the
race? IN. A. RI
i Answer.-The Scriptures are very ex-
i pl1c1t on this very point, and the earn
est student is not left to guess and
speculate as to the truth. They tell
US that all the world was condemned
to death through the disobedience of
the first man Adam. (Romans V, Is; I
| Corinthians XIV, 81 22.) And just as
the death sentence passed upon all of
| the human race, so the Lord God has
arranged for the redemption of all,
| every member of the race. Through
f, the payment of the ransom price all the
| family of Adam will be purchased and
| released from all the claims which Di-
| vine justice may hold against the race.
AS Adam sold all under sin, so Jesus
| Christ bought all who were thus sold,
is the Scriptural proposition In view
/ of this general redemption of the
whole human family we read that "all
VINO are in their graves shall come
| forth at the voice of the Son of Man.
| John V, %, 29.) AS proof of the fact
that Jesus Christ by the grace of God
| tasted death for every man." note the
! following emphatic texts-"The man
Christ Jesus who gave Himself a ran
som for all to be testified in due time"
For He Chrisb is the Precipitation for
| our sins, and not for ours only, but
also for the sins of the whole world
l Timothy ii, s; John ii, 2.
Q--Do the Scriptures ever refer to a
dead man as a dead soul? e. A W)
AnSWer-rTh term in he
Testament is from the Hebrew word
nephesh, and in the New Testament is
from the Greek psuche, and in both in
stances signifies in the original mean |
ing of the terms, a breathing creature, |
or In other words a living being. In |
numerous places in the Scriptures the
possibility of the death of the soul is |
found. An excellent method of ascer- |
tanning just what the Bible does teach |
on the subject of the soul, is to take
some good Bible concordance. and |
there are several fine concordances to |
be obtained at any public library, and |
carefully examine every passage I'M |
der the heading of the word soul Fol- |
lowing are several citations from the
Bible which will throw light on this
subject-Psalm xviii so; Ezekiel xviii, |
4; Judges xvi 30. Margin; Psalm xxx
3; James V, 20. In many texts of the
Bible the translators failed to give the
proper rendering for the Hebrew word |
it should be soul in these citations-I
Leviticus xxi. IL; Numbers vi, 6: tx,
s. z, 10: xix, L. From these it will be
apparent at once to all that the Scrip
lures do refer to dead men as dead
souls. A dead soul is no longer a living
being but is dead being a being that
has ceased to breathe. lie process of
creation is reversed when death takes,l
place.
Q.-Is there any place in the Bible
where. the thousand years are mention
ed besides the twentieth of reveIa-
ton? Is. A. d.
Answer.-The thousand years reign of
the Messiah are referred to by all of
the holy prophets of the Bible. (Acts
iii. 19-2D. However, this period of
time in which all of the world of man
kind is to be blessed, while specifically
mentioned the thousand years five
times in this chapter (the fifth verse is
Spurious) is no where else so mentioned
excepting in an indirect way. For in
stance the Apostle Peter in referring to
the day of judgment says that one
day is with the Lord a thousand
years. and a thousand years as
one day. Gil Peter ill., 3D.
This thousand year day will be the
Judgment day for the world for as ST
Paul says God has appointed a day
in which He will judge the world in
righteousness by that Man whom He
hath ordained, whereof He hath given
assurance unto all men in that He hath
raised Him. from the dead (Acts xvii.
81. The great day of the Lord will be
the time wherein the world will be
granted a full and glorious opportunity
of salvation See I Corinthians vi, 2:
Job V, %, IS, r. V.
Q.-What is meant by the Second
Death mentioned in the book of Rev
elation? Oh. S. P.)
Answer.-Second death implies second
life. The first death, that which came
upon the human family through dis
obedience in Eden, extended to every
member of the human race. According
to Gods providence, fore-known and
fully declared, Christ died for the sins
of the whole world; and in due time
every member of Adams race is to be
recovered from that sin and its death .
penalty which for six thousand years
has been upon the race. In other
words. as Adam brought mankind coll
1ectively under the first death, so ]
Christ will release all mankind from
that penalty and give the race individ-
ually a full opportunity to attain per- {
lection and eternal life. Whoever sins
wilfully and deliberately against that $
light will come under the sentence of
death again; this time it will not be
Adamic death, but Second Death. The
between the two is that the
latter will be everlasting; there will be '
no redemption and no resurrection from
it. The first is termed sleep in s
the Scriptures, while the second is de-
clared to be '.perditfon.'' destruction I
destroyed as brute beasts" in other
words humiliation. 4
Q.--How can the righteous inherit {