The Washington times., 1915-04-05


.* History will be pre-
sented this week at
@SI0& RUsSED the IS,.Tss PanamsiPaf!5o ,,nnsi hao
position in San Francisco. beginning
Monday. We report the Pastors Easter
discourse from the text, with what
body do they Gomez" q Corinthians
1880 He said in part:
In our context st. Paul shows that
without Gods purpose of a resurrection
those who have fallen asleep In death
would have perished as do brute beasts.
Then he assures us that Christ has
risen from the dead and become the
First fruits of them that slept" Others.
indeed, were awakened temporarily; as,
for instance, Jairus' daughter, the son
of the widow of Main, and Lazarus, the
friend of Jesus. Yet none of these in
stances Is counted as resurrection;
for It is written that Christ Is the First
| fruits of them that slept Their
awakening was merely of temporary
nature and they soon relapsed into the
death sleep. They did not have a full
| resurrection-snastas raising up to
perfection of life. such as Jesus re.
demptive work guarantees to Adam and
| to all his race who are willing to ac-
cept It under the terms of the New
| ovenant.-Jeremiah 1881 "a
| The Scriptures clearly teach that not
| the body. but the soul, is promised a
resurrection-that it was our Lords
soul that went to Sheol. Hades. the
| death state, and that God raised Him
| out of death on the third day. Al
Christendom has been plunged INTO az.
fculties by the unscriptural theory that
the body is to be resurrected. We shall
now note a few of the difficulties Into
which this error has plunged US as
believers In the Scriptures. particularly
| in connection with our Redeemer's
! resurrection.
What Say the Scriptures?
| In Christian minds the ordinary
thought respecting our Lords death and
resurrection is that when Jesus seemed
| TO die He did not die; that He, the
being, the soul. could not die; that: in
| stead He went to Heaven, and then
came back on the third day to get the
forty days later He took 1t to Heaven
that He has had that body ever since
and that to all eternity He will have II
marred with the , PRINT f OF ,.h the e., mans s,t. m
of the thorns upon His brow, ana with
the spear wound in His side.
What a ghastly thought! How strange
that we should ever have ,si been nislea q
theory. Some endeavor to gloss the
| matter by suggesting that our Lord s
flesh Is glorifed-that 1t shines-the
shining presumably making the wounds
all the more CONSPICUOUS; 49,, .,r,
Our Methodist friends have thus
stated the matter: He ascended up or
High taking His feshly body with Him
and all that appertained thereto, anc
sat down on the right hand OF COO;
This medieval statement correctly az
mits that the fieshly body was not tht
Lords glorified body. but declares tha'
He, the soul, took it with Him az tug
gage. The clause, "and all that apper
tained thereto presumably would re
fer to our Lords sandals. walking stiGt
and such clothing as the soldiers % ale
not divide amongst themselves az Tn
time of the crucif1xion-if lhoeea h'
had any others! But our dear Metho
dist friends wish to be sure that moth
ing was left behind. go
All this is Of a piece with the theo,
that when the saints die they go u
heaven. but come back later to get thei
. bodies "and all that appertained there
to'-the Inconvenience that they hav
been rid Of for centuries! How man,
trunkloads Of things appertaining there
to may be taken by some, and nov
mixed an assortment by others. Is no
stated. Neither are particulars give1
respecting those whose clothing, etc
have meantime worn out. But we hav
had enough Of this, II 1t has helped u
from the Dark Ages-if 1t has awakene'
us to thought and to Bible investiga
ion on this interesting and importan
subject
The Bible presentation is, in every wa,
reasonable, consistent and harmonious
st. Paul points out that there is a nat
ural body and there is spirit body.
He neither means nor says that tn
spirit body is a human body glorified
Quite to the contrary, he declares tina
''nesh and blood cannot inherit tn
kingdom of God"-no matter hoy
glorified. A human being is so total
different from spirit being that, as 81
John saws, 1T doth not vet appea
what we shall be-" in our resurrectio
change; and the scriptures do not eve
attempt to give us an explanation
John 80.
The Bible merely declares that as W
now bear the image OF the earthly
Adam-so we shall by the resurrectio
change be given share in the natur
and the likeness of the Second Adam
our glorious Lord. We shall be lik
Him and see Him as He is. But. be
noted, we must be changed from fies
and blood conditions to spirit condition
, Him as He is. Surely this fact prove
that our Lord Jesus is no longer fiesl
as once He was-"in the days of II
flesh. 81
Heavenly Bodies VS.. Earthly Bodie.
st. Paul calls attention to the diffe
ence between celestial bodies and tie
restriaI or earthly bodies, and declar,
that they have different gorles. +
tells us that the first Adam was made
living soul, a human being, but that oil
Redeemer, who humbled Himself ar
took the earthly nature-"for the sufte
ing of death" (Hebrews 2:9)-thereby b
Lord. The wide distinction between Il
Second Adam and the first Adam
clearly set forth; one was earthly, al
the other is Heavenly.
st. Paul illustrates by saying that v
know of many kinds of organisms
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