The fool-killer., 1920-01-01

the universe. The heaven above
where God the Father sits on
throne is never called Para
disc. And even if Jesus had
the thief right on up to
throne the very day they
died, they would not have been
in Paradise.
Why can't people learn to no
tiee the names Of things a little
better? I repeat that the name
paradise" has never been ap-
piled to any place except right
here on this earth, and never
will be. And there was certain
ly not any Paradise on earth at
the time Jesus died land so he
could not possibly have taken the
thief to Paradise at that time,
because there was no Paradise
to take him to.
But when you understand that
there is a difference between the
Fathers throne in heaven and
the Sons future throne on earth,
then you can get the sense of
what the thief meant when he
said, Remember me when thou
contest into THY kingdom"-
not the Fathers kingdom.
And when you understand that
the establishment of Christ's
kingdom on earth will result in
the restoration of Paradise-the
same kind of a literal earthly
Paradise that Adam and Eve
lost, except that it will cover the
entire earth-then you can get
the true sense of what Jesus
meant when he promised the
thief that he should be with him
in Paradise.
It is all SO plain and easy and
reasonable that I see no excuse
for anybody to misunderstood it.
But the devil has got the peo-
pie blinded with that old 'immor-
tai soul'' lie, and that keeps their
minds befuddled and they can't
see anything right.
/. You can't even get some peo-
pie to lay aside their prejudice
and STUDY this question at all.
They seem to be afraid that they
MIGHT get their eyes open.
And now let me show you how
all the misunderstanding of this
scripture came about. In the
original Greek manuscripts there
wasA not any punctuation at all.
There was not even any space
between the words. The letters
and words were all damned up
together, and must have been
very difficult to read.Any schol-
ar will tell you that punctuation
marks were never used until af-
ter the art of printing was in
vented. When they began to
make printed Bibles they intro
dueed the punctuation marks.
These marks, not being in the
original, were not inspired, but
were put in by men about the
fifteenth century. By this time
satan's he was beginning to be
widely taught and believed, and
the translators and printers Of
the Bible had fallen into the trap
They belived that the soul was
immortal and that it went right
on to heaven or hell at the death
of the body. Believing as they
did, it was natural for them tt
put the comma before the wore
to-day" instead of after it. That
way of punctuating it makes Je
sus say what he had no thought
of saying, and makes it contra,
dict every other passage in thu
Bible. So we know it is wrong
Change that one little comma By
placing it AFTER the word ITO
day" and see what a difference
it makes.
I find among my referenc'
works quite a number of differ
ent translations of this vers'
duke % :43). William Bowye
renders it. Il say this day t.
YOU" The Curetonian Syria
reads: "Verily l say to thee to
day, that with me thou shalt b
in the Eden's garden"
So you see that whole terri
bic misunderstanding starte'
from the wrong placing of a com