Evening journal., 1915-06-16
PEOPLES COLUMN


and the Word vas with God and the
Word was God The same vas in
the beginning with Cod" And Heb.
1:2, by whom, Jesus. also He made
the worlds" However. the name Of the
Son of God before His human birth
was not Jesus. That name was given
by His human parents, by Divine
command however.
8. Now, II follows. inevitably. that
the person, Jesus. was and Is to all
eternity Of Divine nature and essence;
and it also follows conclusively, that
after His human birth, He was also
of human nature and essence. This
would make Him the son of God and
the son of man, and He expressly
claimed to be both. Therefore, He is
both now, and ever will be.
This article might stop just here,
but there are some very important
conclusions that flow from the fore
going which ought to be known by
all. and yet, do not seem TO be un-
derstood, so attention is called to the
following.
AS Jesus could not be the Son of
God otherwise than by being begotten
by the Great Father and as being be-
gotten means the bestownient Of the
nature, essence and life OF tie Be
getter; and as the nature, essence and
] life of God cannot be created flor that
would be to create Immortality. the
mere statement o. which shows its
absurdity), but can be begotten, then
il necessarily follows that man can
not be made the child of God other
wise than by being begotten of God.
And being begotten of God means the
same with reference to man that il
does with reference to Jesus. And
the Holy Scriptures emphatically and
/ unequivocally declare that men, in
| this life, are begotten of God and
! become the children of God Face the
facts Face sound reasoning and the
Holy Scripturesl Never mind your
theories and churches and creeds!
Let the Holy Scriptures be true what
ever creed goes to the WALL
Not only is the foregoing true. but
sound reasoning and the Holy Scrip
lures show that il is absolutely nee
essary that it must be true, in order
that men may be saved from sin and
SHINING in this life and in the life
to follow this one. Pay attention now
to the following:
!. God cannot be honest and yet
pardon men who die in deliberate re-
bellion against Him and His laws. God
is no bigot He does not damn men
simply because OF their ignorance,
when their ignorance is not Willful
! Willful ignorance or willful refusal to
accept the teaching OF Gods word is
and must be the same as deliberate
rebellion against God. Sin then must
be the deliberate. intentional refusal
to submit to the right. or to do the
right as we understand the right 10
be. Nothing else can be sin. God can
not condemn the right and be honest.
and He Is infinitely honest and true
and just, therefore He does not con-
denim the right. whatever that may
be. or whatever any man honestly
and truly believes the right to be.
Every man must do what he believes
to be right; if he fails he condemns
himself. and Of course God does.
2. The only man who ever lived
without sin and who never failed to
submit to, and to do the right. was
the man Christ Jesus. But, He was
more than man; He was also the
Great ] ann He was the Son Of God
ana tnereIOre Goa.
8. Now if it required the God man
to live without sin. and if no one ex-
cept the Goldman ever did live with
out sin how can IL be expected of a
mere" man to live without sim No
mere man ever has lived without sin:
"All We like sheep, have gone astray.'
There is none good. no, not one" "Ii
We say that we have no sin. we de-
ceive ourselves and the truth is not
in u.s. Therefore every man needs
salvation, not simply from the pun
ishment for his sin; but salvation
from SHINING Each aud every one
must be saved so he win cease 10
sin, cease his rebellion against God
cease to do evil. Keep in mind the
definition of sin as stated above.
4. The definition of sin above; the
fact that God is infinitely honest and
righteous and holy and is not a bigot
and therefore will not, cannot, in
righteousness, condemn innocent ig-
norance, and must Of necessity ap-
prove the right; and that right is the
doing Of what one honestly believes
to be right and the honest and true
submission to the right and the open
! and honest acknowledgement of the
right. as one may truly and sincerely
believe the right to be; keeping these
! facts in mind and giving them full
force and effect. then it necessarily
b and imperatively follows that there
J can be no probation after death. Not
J even in the millennium. unless the
millennium has been in effect and force
ever since the Ascension, which may
or may not be the case.
There is no probation after death
: for the reason that there is no neces-
sity for it. and God never does an
unnecessary thing.
There Is no probation after death
for the further reason that 1t is con-
trary to sound reason and to the Holy
: Scriptures.
! The foregoing will appear conclu-
/ sively if we consider the following
That no mere man ever lived without
! doing what he knew, or believed Ia
J be wrong, and therefore all have sin
ned;
That Jesus Christ as more than
man. the Goldman, and because OF
that fact never did wrong, he was
J without sin;
That if il requires a Goldman to live
/ without SHINING. and that man must
{ cease to sin before he can be par
doned-he can't be pardoned while
, yet in rebellion: therefore II impera-
lively and necessarily follows that
man must be changed. made like
| Jesus Christ before he can be stopped
: from SHINING. In other words, man
! must be "hegotten of Cod" "born OF
Cod" born from above" before he