The Tulsa star. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1913-1921, 1920-04-24
Shall The Dead Be ReSurreCted
And Live Again?
lBN RICHARD j. HlLlD

To those who accept the Bible as
lhc word of God, the Creator and
fiu>hcr of all things. there is liz
lie difficulty in showing to them
through the Bible the fact and phil
o,cphN of the Resurrection of the
Gcad
inc faithful Job. after suffering
great bodily pain and mental an
su!sh. after praying lhal he might
die and 90 to hell, The grave, and
there rest in silence until the wrath
OF God be over passed, asked the
question, "lf a man die shall he
live again?' Cob If: lH. Millions
have asked this question since that
time and had it been fairly treated
and honestly answered bN those.
IT,, preachers, who claim to teach
Tn, word OF God. much sorrow
Wculu have been avoided in the
earth
According to statistics furnished,
approximately nine million men
were the victims of the Great World
War Just past Within that same
pcriod Twelve million fell victims
to the great dreaded pcSlilcncc.
spanish influenza" For some years
nov in addition to this the average
death rate, i'm the world, has been
approximately one hundred thou>-
aud per day. When there is a great
calamity and many people lose their
lives, the peoples of earth stand
amazed and shocked, but in the
dailN routine of affairs death has
become SO common that many think
II must always be this way. Mo,
naturally the people have looked to
something upon which they could
base their hopes for The future for
themselves and their loved ones.
Truly this is an earth of sorrow,
tie sorrow of the people bowed
down under the great burden of sin,
gruaning and Travelling for some
thing that would deliver them from
l. The poet has well expressed il
when he says:
"'lhc Earth is old with centuries.
But not for this she hangs her head:
Closer to her heart the sorrow
lies,
She holds so many dead"
From the bloody battle fields
broken regiments have returned and
some fathers, mothers and sweet
hearts have waited at the station
and looked in vain for the coming
Of the one they have dearly loved
and they have asked, Shall we
ever see him again?" 'if they have
fallen in the battle is there any
hope Of our being united again il
! happiness and love-" The scripture
alcne answers this question salts
faCtorilY.
The hope of the world lies in the
resurrection of the dead Wonder.
fully beautiful is the doctrine o
the resurrection of the dead an
those who see and appreciate it re
ioicc in the fact that God, in tn,
exercise of his loving kindness, ha'
, provided a means whereby thoS,
who have suffered death might bt
! awakened again, and those waiting
in sorrow may have their heart'
nadc glad. ~ voice was heard il
Eamah, lamentations and bittel
weeping. Rachel weeping for hel
Children refused to be cOmforteC
for hec children, because they
were not. CThey were dead no
conscious somewhcre). Thus saltl
he Lord, refrain thy voice from
weeping and thine eyes from tears
for thy works shall be rewarded
saith the Lord. and they shall come
again from the land of the enemy
Md there is hope in the end Saiil
the Lord. That thy children Shal
CCme again to their own border
Ucr 13: 15-1D. Every where il
.hc Bible death is spoken of as
enemy. SO the land of the enemy
therefore is the condition of death
The promise here is that these deaC
shall be brought back TO their owl
bot uer namely, the earth, their for
mcr condition. We here submi
thai if the doctrine of inherent i'm
mortality is correct, then there
could be no resurrection of the dead
for The reason that YOU can not re
surrcct person that is immortal
death proof. Resurrection means
reSlanding to life and no one coulC
be immortal without having life il
its fullncSS. Hence the doctrine o
Inherent Immortality of the soul de
lies the resurrection of the dead
We further state that if the doctrin,
of eternal torture is true the resu'
oclion Of the dead could not b,
uue for the reason That no on,
could be eternally tortured with
out having eternal life, an existence
irdeSlructible, and if one is al
ready i'm state of life indestruct
ible and subject to eternal torment
q rcstanding TO life, the resurrectio!
/ " amid be utterly imDOSSiblc Thu,