Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1915-03-11
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OF tnjs covenant, with its death
uepalty 10 it. TO ,aia: "This is the
token of the ovenant which | make
between III and you, and every living
creature that Is with you, for perpe-
tual genrrations:
~ do set nv bow (rainbowl in the
cloud. aud IT -hall be for token OF
covenant between me and the earth
#** "Apd ta- bow shall be III the
cloud, and will look upon it, tnat
NAV remember taa everla ting cove
pa6t " (G-n 8, 70 16). from whica
We learn: That the rainbow in
tue cloua j. token, to us all, that
90 "a royenapt not to de troy rs all
with auotner food of waters still
stanus, hence its death penalty for
mur tr ut 80 stan s too, an as tue
raiubo stia keeps appearing W.
know Christ di1 not repeal the Soven-
ants 'pat9 uenalty. Tais coven-
ant was made for perpetual genera
tions, and pyrpetual's Hebrew wor
ia. 80 lam," meaning time out or
mini, practically eternity, aiway, al
ways, everla ting, perpetual, worm
without eud hence this death penalty
is IT'LL IN full force, and it Is great
sin to change it, as Bowers seeks TO
do. 8 OF changing this oeath renal,
ty ordinance everlasting covenant Gou
avs: The earth also is detileG under
the iuha bitant tDereof; because tney
have transgr sseo toe laws, cnang7u
the or inant t. broken the everla>tlng
covenant, " --Isaiah 2:45 That is, tae
Jews, ike Bow ers, thought they na1
grown ~ 20 in civilization as that
they hangeI or abolt .htH the dtatn
penalty ordinance in 71S b Z which
wa 1886 years after Coz ordained 1t,
ami tn reby they defiod the earth
with tbe bloo3 of rliersd people, to
the great dis leasure of God, so much
20 as at he tltreatenel tnem Wltb
lire calamitie,. for abolishing carital
NUM- shmrnt, and He will SURE Sc
verely pun Tenae scans ii tney ab-
oli,h it Tha I-raslites tried it 1886
years aftnr God ordained it and suf
t red greatly for it, and | am sure
thee scri tural proofs 1isprove Bow
ers assertion, and all false theories.
too.
2 That Christ did not change the
Ola Law, as Bowers falsely lays, is
evidenced by U rigat translation OF
PAUL. Greek in Col 2;l4, 10, thus:
"Blotting out the writing of
Or clan ,ogma>-o iniouH tbat wa,
against Us, wnicn was contrary to Us,
AMI it out of the mi dl s aces be-
t eeu tn lin s, mailing it (tne hand
writng) to Hi cross: "And having
suoiled Greciau Priuci ualties, Sow
prign Governments and Power. He
made a show of them ouenlv, trump
ting over tn m into Himself - |
know this is right for following un-
Bpswerabe reasons: T. 1t was the
hand * riting or iukstains which
Christ blotted out and if that was
the nau3wEiting of Gods Law, than
all tDat part of the books of the Old
Testament containing the Law wouiu
be only blank white paper with all
the Laws blotted out as that no one
could now tell what The Law ordjn-
ances were, as none Of them would be
in the OF ! Testament at all, and the
fact that they are all there proves
Christ did not blot out single one OF
them. 2 God never did or ain ordi-
nauces which we're against and con-
trary to his people. 8 These so call
ed ordiuanees Paul called "dogmas, .
word neither Christ mol my inspired
writ ever 3id uss TO designate Gods
ordinances, but rather opinions. and
according to toe Hebrew of Old Testa-
| ment ''skeptical opinions at that,
and it was only theft hana awriting
which Christ blotted out. The
, very places from which Christ took
the handwriting of these 6ogmas
. shows l am right, for He took them
with 1T, their handwriting Greek
! lex ton mesou), out of the middle spa
ces that is, the middle spaces be-
twixt the lines of God's ordinances,
} which shows they spuriously forged
there, by being forged in interpola.
ting or interlining them IN between
Gods lines, and Rom. t:25, rightly
translated, shows how it was done,
thus: "Who (Gr metalaxan, right
into the middle) chan ged the truth OF
God into q lie,' etc, which clearly
shows they wrote these dogmas-skep.
r tical opinions in between Gods lines,
and these Christ took out of the mid
| die spaces only. 5. The very parties
over whom Christ triumphed in it,
} shows am right, for if it was the
handwriting of Gods ordinances He
{ took away, He would have triumphed
only over God, His Father. and we al
know He did not do that, therefore WI
know it was ouly the interlined spur
, ious dogmas-opinions hand writing
| Christ blotted out. and not Gods or
dinances at all All these forego
ing proofs and remarks apply witt
. equal force to the "middIe wall of par
, tition" and "tbe law of command
/ ments contained in ordinances" Eph
. 2:14-15, which Christ broke down. be
cause they too, were only Greek dog
mas, and then the temple Of God hat
no middle wall of Partition, and 81
the middle spaces handwriting o
these dogmas was the ''middle wall o
+ partition which Christ broke down. ;
as the eumity between us.
, ITO be continued
, ELDER N. ". BLALOCK.
: Dunlap, Tenn,