The Miami times., 1951-09-29

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marriage, but as the angels of
God in heaven" Matt. 22:35.
This is the most unpopular sub
lect that has ever been preached
IN ChriStiandom. 1t meets a bitter
resentment from two-thirds of
the christians, and whoever
breaches it, is despiSed and re-
lected; and yet it will withstand
the most terrific attacks of the
most powerful critics of the age.
Human relations are so dear
that when death breaks them it
gives us pains and sorrows that
cannot be described in human
speech, and to say they will not
be reunited in the Resurrection
is considered noncompatible and
unbearable; and yet it is true.
Jesus told the Sadducees that
their concept of human relation
ship beyond the grave was an er-
TOR. Not only they, but all Gospel
preachers are arrant concerning
1t. So strong and graphic have
been the lies about ones in the
spirit world told by preachers
who got kick out of playing on
the sympathy of the bereaved that
even they themselves have be-
Ieved their own lies.
The text is the answer Jesus
gave to this perplexing question.
The Sadducees did not believe in
the resurrection, nor the souls
existence after death, because the
legal ties of this world would in
volve incomprehenSible complica-
0ons in the world to come. To
prove it they said, that according
20 Moses law, seven brothers
married the same woman, and
then asked, whose wife will she
be in heaven? It would be awful
III there were no dissolution of
legal ties in death. Think of how
unhappy we would be in heaven
II everyone would claim legal and
natural relations in heaven!
'Uo prove that women do not 60
TO heaven, let us consider their
origin, purpose and destiny. St.
Matt. 22:35.
Since woman was not in the
lplans at creation, she is not of
divine origin. She does not appear
I'm the specifications at creation
nor on the blue print of the uni
verse thus. She was not the un-1
finished business, but new item
IN the after-Work of creation.
Woman was made from m a n,
therefore her origin does not date
back to creation, but to the Gar
den of Eden, when God put Adam
10 sleep and took from him fesh
and bone and made her. When man
was created, God breathed into
hIm spiritual life and he became
a living soul. The scriptures make
no reference to the creation of
So'n in connection with the maxi
ing Of woman. So far as we know
God did not create female spirit
for her. She inherited a mascu-
line from man. That is why she
can equal man in science, art and
philosophy. He can do no work
that is too hard for her to do, be-
cause she is made out of some
material that is in him. She is a
part of man and belongs to man.
Modern philosophers claim that
God split man in halves, making
her half of him. That Is why we
sometime call her his better half.
She sustains a vital relationship
TO him without which the human
race could not continue to exist.
THE PURPOSE FOR WHICH
SHE WAS MADE
She must have a dignified and
important purpose in life for God
20 make after He had finished His
creative work. II she had been
rnAIie for the service and glory
of God, she would have been in
ILLS plans. She grew out Of a ne
CeSSity. God said that it was not
gU0d that man should be alone; it
was not good for the perpetual
Eion of mankind, for man could
not reproduce alone.
God made her to be the chan
mel through which the ceaSeleSs
stream Of humanity could flow
through the ages. Man is the
father and source of all genera
xi0ns, but she Is essential to the