The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1916-03-28
DR.. divers Challenge
Accepted
Sunday Morning, March IL, 1916

In order position which in the light Of
day many Bible students are beginning to see most unrs
as his authority and challenges Sunday morning March z
We accept the challenge not for arguments sake but
cause the truth Is not clearly seen BY all CHRISTIAN
day which has already commenced Thess 211 Eph 6
and others positively and absolutely nuifes the
therefore, an mt & spirit or o0c'rlne IL Is Decau
Of views OF what the n really u.s. what
of the Lords people have lost their faith and have dr
We the the translation of which in the
version Gg ames Dr. O nG MAINTAINS n not ya o
g g ba t onfob tbat es o Christ come in the flesh IS
in the flesh is not Of God: And this is that spirit q
anchrist whereof have heard that should come John
AZ 3 For mary decevers are entered into the world who
deceiver an-Christ.
Dr. divers claim is 81 That the Greek words in sss
this change Apostles words would signify that teaching
which denies that the second advent of Lord will be
the is ant-Christ spirit
eronO@ reply TO root word from Which is aS a s9So
John 42 and ercbomenon q John y signifies coming or
determined by the construction
sentence Just may use our English word coming I
matters and future and say Faith in the
SO general is in his coming"
beyond that an occurrence Of the past Is
went FORTH and the two statements quite evidently refer
(2) This put by some have
changed" the divine that
flesh and that ne VIII continue b to De man human, feso
nifty deny ignore many
S Spirit" Though have Christ
a S ' 2s 2 Corr SIX 5is Their wish find some
their unreasonable and unscrip
tual position deceves them respects these
that the vast majority of Christian people
them nearly all who have
had anything do with ranslaing the Scriptures
of thsse texts by Prof R RRnehaT PR B. professor
Waynesburg College Cumberland Presbyerian
quoting the of John Az and John Prof ns
says: o. The foregoing quotations from the En-
Daglott of Wilson, purportng be from the original
of the New Testament CThe writer has
work. The eeuthoa is accusatves
masculine the perfect partcpIe of the veE
erchomai the relation this verb any
participle its verb 1t stands with the verb
homoegei indirect discourse, and represents finite perfect
according 20 ordinary Greek synax tGodwns Greek
"The following quotation is
Christ has in the flesh, is of Cod"
The word erohomenon the second quotation is the
accusave singular masculine OF the present parcpe OF the
echoma and is subject the rules OF syntaX
relation ~eselthon through honogO
well the context Juses It's translation as or
past Ibid, 1881
"The translation of the second quotation therefore is prop
follows For deceivers went forth into tbs
wordtose who do not confess that Jesus Christ did ocme
the flesh
though he hold the second coming Of
Lord in the flesh and might thus have preference Tor
construction favorable to his conceptions
Finally notice that confession that Christ CAM
flesh his first advent essential to proper belief
the and denial OF that act means denial OF
otherwise he could not give corresponding
his resurrection and that he VIII come second tne as man
thereby denying for if Lord is still
took back agan-took back the redemption
price vated the purchase But the contrary the
Lords humanity taken back
God highly exalted and given name and nature FAR
that
nor any like if faithful shall be changed
and him him as he is"-not q John
3:2). (See Scripture Studies, Vol ", page 1861
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