The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1915-04-13

and shows that without Gods purpose
30 restore the dead to Life those who
have fallen asleep In death would have
perished as do brute beasts Then he
assures rs that Christ has risen and
become the First-fruits Of those that
slept" Others, indeed, were awak-
ened temporarily; for instance, the
daughter of Jairus. the son Of the
widow OF Main, and Lazarus the friend
OF jesus Yet none Of these instances
Is counted as q resurrection; for It n
said that Christ u the Firstfruits OF
them that slept. Their awakening was
merely Of temporary nature. and they
soon relapsed into the sleep Of death
They did not have full resurrection
0nost1sts-a raising up to perfection Of
life. such ar the redemptive work OF
Jesus guarantees to Adam and TO all
his race willing to accept the same I'M
der the terms Of the New Covenant
Jeremiah 81 :31-S4
The Scriptures clearly teach that Il
ID not the body, but the soul that Is
promised q resurrecticn-that It was
our Lords soul that went 10 Eheol, to
Hades, to the death state, and that
God raised Him from death ON the
third day. All Christendom has been
plunged into difficulties by the nm
scr1ptural theory that 1t is the body
which 10 to be resurrected We shall
now note few OF the difficulties into
which this error has plunged us "a be-
Nevers IN the words Of Christ, partic-
ulariy In connection with our Redeem
ex's resurrection.
What Went 10 Haa~snf
The ordinary thought In Chr1st1zn
minds In respect to our Lords death
and resurrection fs that when He seem
ed 30 die He did not die; that He, the
being, soul, could not die; that, In
stead, He went TO Heaven, and then
came back on the third day to get the
body which had been crucifed; that
He took It to Heaven forty days later;
mat he has had that body ever since;
and that He viii have it to all eternity,
marred with the print Of the nails In
BIS hands and His feet, with the print
Of the thorns upon His brow, and with
the Spear mark In His side. What a
CHASTITY thought
How strange that We should have
been misled into 80 unscriptural and
unreasonable theory Some endeav-
or to gloss the matter by suggesting
that our Lords flesh Is glorihed- that
u shdnes-the shining presumably max
ing the wounds ala the more conspfcu-
ous>
Our Methodist friends have not vet
changed their statement OF the matter,
namely. HE assembled up ON High,
taking bis fieshly body with Him and
all that appertained thereto, and sat
down ON the right hand Of God" This
medieval statement correctly admits
that the fieshly body was not the
Lords gior1fied body, but declares that
He, the soul, took it with Him as lug
gage. The statement, land all that ap-
pertained thereto" presumably would
refer to our Lords sandals, walking
stick. and such clothing as the soldiers
did not divide amongst themselves at
the time OF His cruci1xion-if indeed
lie had any othersI But our dear
Methodist friends wish to be sure that |
nothfng was left behind
An this Is Cd a piece with the theory |
mat when the saints die they go to |
Heaven, and return later to get their |
bodies "and all things appertaining |
Thereto inconvenience that they
have been rid of for centuriesl How
many trunkloads Of "things appertain-
ing thereto" may be taken by some. |
and how mixed an assortment By 9th
ers, rs not stated. Neither are partic-
ulars given respecting these whose
clothing. etc., have meantime worn out |
But we have had enough Of this, If it |
has helped us to see the absurdities
Of our theories received from the Dark |
Ages, IL 1t has awakened us TO thought |
End to Bible investigation on this Inn
portant and interesting subject
What Say the Soriptures9
me Bible presentation Of this mat
bar is IN every way reasonable, consist
euk and harmonious. st. Paul points
ont that there is natural body and /
there Is spirit body" He does not
mean. and he does not say, that the
spirit body Is human body giorified.
Quite to the contrary. he declares that
'46esh and blood cannot inherit the
Kingdom OF God"-no matter how glo-
Eined It might be. A human being Is
DO totally different from spirit being
mat. as st. John says, 'it doth not yet
w3ear what we shah be- IN our resur-l