El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-08-05
" Torture Is Repulsive One"
j. Branley N M Takes With Allen Concerning
Authority for Belief in He'll
By J H
By J. H. BRANTDEY.

, very much in error The Greek word
! hades Is the exact equivalent Of the
/ Hebrew word sheol. and in the New
! Testament the former Is used 10 trans
: late the latter. as ali Bible schOla rs
! know and our English word hell trans
! lates both sheol and hades and the
three mean merely the concealed. Gov
cred or hidden state. with no though;
I OF spirit condition. Or OF conscious
| ness. even They mean the state or con-
dition of death. OF Inconsistencies
and not a state OF life on any plane or
in any desree: and all both good and
bad, 20 TO he'll at the moment OF dis
solution.
Il is clearly stated in Acts 2.oT and
80 that Jesus went to hell. lrd there. is
nothing TO imply that he was in some
mythical spirit world with the penitent
thief He was dead. having Just paid
the penalty for sin, and il is emYhati-
cally declared from Genesis to REVEAL
ton that the wages of sin is death"
and novice in mental exercise knows
That death is the opposite Of life
True orthodoxy holds that this state
ment means only the death of the body:
THAI mans soul is immortal and CON
tinues 10 live apart from the body. but
what say the scriptures The soul
that Sinneth. II shall die" (Eze. 1S-20)
Consciousness Beyond the Tomb.
The wicked are not promised ever
lasting life in hell or anywhere else
soul death. annihiIation. is the penalty
for sin and there can be no life. no
consciousness. beyond the tomb. except
through a resurrection Of the dead. as
clearly preached BY Jesus and the ApOs-
ties. for in l Cor. 18th chapter. Paul
emphasizes the fact that if there be
no resurrection Of the dead. Then they
also which are fallen asleep in Christ
are persisted" Jesus was dead. for he
had assumed the penalty pronounced
atty had been everlasting misery he
must needs suffer through all eternity.
for in 1 Timothy. 20, il is clearly
stated that he gave himself a ransom
for ALL and ransom means correspond
ing price. He died. the just for the
unjust
Wicked to Be AnnihiIated.-
Mr.. Allen says in paragraph three
that certain scriptures cOuld be con-
strUed that ultimately the wicked viii
be aunihilated. That is quite correct.
and were he to search he would find
many more that teach the same thing
very clearly For instance. Psa. 1920
says that "All the wicked wiz he de-
stroy, and destroy does not mean pre-
serve in nell. or anywhere else He saws
that on the other hand that Matt
26 40. Mark. 9-41-4S and Rev. 20-IO-I5
could be justly construed TO teach that
they are TO live on in perpetual pun
ishment. Here he is in error These
scriptures are paraboiic. and in a par
able the thing said is never the thfn-
meant. II were not well TO attempt 10
interpret literal statement by par
able. on the contrary. parallels are TO
be interpreted by literal statements:
and when presuming TO expound Gods
word We shouldn't exceed our authority
by constituting too much Rev. 2O-I4
teaches that the lake of fire into
which not only the wicked. but also
death and hell. are 10 be cast is 4
symbol Of the second death absolute
destruction. humiliation, from which
there viii be no recovery. Fire is never
used as q preserving agency. except in
orthodox theology. Death. the absence
OF life is the penalty for sin. and mas
much as the second death viii be ever
lasting the punishment viii be ever
lasting. of course but those experience
ing it viii not be conscious of il. for
Feel s-5 says that The dead know not
anything"
The intermediate state.
Mr. Allen SAYS further that tartarus
represents the intermediate state wherc
the wicked are reserved for Judgment.
This sounds something like the papal
doctrine of purea tory, and IS taken
from heather mythOlogies. not from the
Bible. The ancients taught an inter
mediate state of consciousness and
these heather theories We're grated
onto the Christian doctrines in the
ear ~ cent ulltSs ludI the CHRISTIAN re-
lgion might be more acceptable to the ,
masses The heather religions all
taught the immortality of the soul.
whereas Jesus and the apostles taught .
that man is mortal and subject to /
death. hence the necessity for a resur- I
rection- And when they heard Of the !
Iesurrection of the dead. some Knocked % .
Acts. ll,52- These Athenians thought .
Paul behind the times. for according To
their religion. no one was dead herce
the doctrine Of the resurrection was q
foOlishness- The early Christian faith
FRS borrowed this doctrine from the
heather 1t is not taught in the scrip
lures.
Incorrectly Rendered.
TartarOO occurs one time in the
Pet, 2:4-and was rem
iered hell. though il has no such mean
ng. In order to give this word the
iesired twist the translators were COM
Delled to use six English words tSee I
ITALICS in text They evidently thought
hat the fallen angels should be in hell,
80 proceeded to put them there. Tar |
arOO is similar to tartarus. a word
Ised in Grecian mythology and mean
ns dark abyss or prison: but tartaroo
las more the meaning Of an act than
If place. The fallen angels We're not
,ut into a place. but were degraded.
estrained, or deprived of many powers
md privileges formerly enjoyed Untn |