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.. HE STRUCK A KNOT (for we walk by faith, not by sight:) We are
He says:
confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent
“One of the strongest arguments the friends from the body, and to be present with the Lord.”
of this theory of the soul’s immortality have to (’ ‘Or- 5:6-8)
offer is the text, ‘Fear not them that kill the body
and after that have no more that they can do, but Now we come to that knot. Jesus says, “And
fear not them that kill the body, but are not able
fear him who is able to destroy both soul and to kill the soul; but rather fear him who is able
body!’ NOW, if this text proves anything, it proves to destroy both soul and body in hell.” (Mt. 10:28)
too much for our adversaries, for instead of proving
that the soul is immortal and therefore in&- Then, man has a soul that is not subject to
death: it is not mortal, then, for mortal means
structible, it proves to the contrary, that the soul subject to death.
is capable, the same as the body, of being de-
And this much, at least, this
text Proves.
stroyed! ‘Fear him who -is able to DESTROY
BOTH SOUL AND BODY!’ This is why we are Now “destroy,” yes, “destroy both soul and
told to fear him.’
body in hell,” says Jesus.
-Adventist (Present Truth Messenger,
Again he says, “Depart from me, ye cursed,
into eternal fire prepared for the devil and his
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If there is anything these people talk most
angels.” (Mt. 25:41) And this is after the resurabout
and know least about it is the nature of
rection, too. And “As in Adam all die, so also in
man. They can resolve the whole man, “Spirit
Christ shall all be made alive.” (I Cor. 15:22)
and soul and body” (I Thes. 523) into dust in a Now “How are the dead raised? and with what
jiffy, with the fish and the fowl and the brute. manner of body do,they come?” (v. 35) “It is
sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption:
(I Cor. 15:39) But this fellow does not mix up . . . . It is sown a natural body; it is raised a
with the fish, the fowl, and.the brute. He starts spiritual body.” (vs. 42, 44) Henceout:
“Text: ‘And man became a living soul.’ Gen.
2:7,” and labors through four full columns, half- I. “The last ,enemy that shall be abolished is
page size, to show us in his first, second, third,
death? 11. .. “But (v. 26). when this corruptible shall have put
and fourth, that “soul” is material, and tangible,
can be destroyed, and can and does die, quoting
on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on
among other passages Gen. 126; Lev. 5:2; Ps.
immortality, then shall come to pass the saying
7:2; Ps. 22:29.
that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory”
(v. 54) ;
Of course, if “man became a living soul,” he 111. Therefore, every corruptible, mortal body
was not a living soul before he became a living of man will put on incorruption, immortality. And
soul. And after he became a living soul, he was the lost have their abode, “both soul and body,”
no longer “man” in the sense that he was “man” in hell, Mt. 10:28.
before he became a living soul; but after he be- Destroy, apollumi, “to devote or. give over to
came a living soul, he is still called “man,” and eternal misery: Mt. 10:28.” -Thayer, p. 64, Stan-
“God took the man.” (Gen. 2:15) Now, which dard lexicographer of New Testament Greek.
man did he take-the “man” before he became a I. The punishment of the lost is “eternal punliving
soul, or the “living soul”? The latter, evi- ishment,” Mt. 25 :46.
dently. And there is no question with Bible
11. The punishment of the lost is “tribulareaders
and lexicographers that the terms man, tion and anguish,” Rom. 29. living soul, and soul, in Bible namenclature, are
applied to human beings; and of course, they have
111. Therefore, the punishment of the lost is
eternal tribulation and anguish, “both soul and
elements that are material, tangible, can%e de- body in hell,” proving Adventism to be but the
stroyed, and can die, seeing that man now consists devil’s “sugar stick” to capture the unsuspecting.
of “Spirit and soul and body.” For example, the “Beware,” says Jesus, Mt. 7:15. ~.
(‘body’’ is mortal (Rom. 6:12; I Cor. 15:54; Rom.
8:ll; 2 Cor. 4:11), and it can be killed, Mt. 10:28.
-H. C. Harper.
And “The body without the spirit is dead.” (Jas.
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But “soul” is a general term, and is sometimes
By E. A. Lowry
used to designate the spirit, as we shall see in Mt. .We should learn the truth, know the truth, for
10:28, not being subject to death as the body is. by, and thru, the truth we can be saved. “And
Hence, when his body was dying, Jesus said, “Fa- ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall
ther, into thy hands I commend my spirit” (Lk. make you free” (John 8:32). But some say,
23:46), and Stephen said, “Lord Jesus, receive “HOW can we know the truth?” The general an-,
my spirit.” (Acts 7:60) And Jesus said to the swer is, “God will give you the truth in time, just
penitent one on the cross, “Today shalt thou be pray on.” But, what does the Bible say? “Search
the Scriptures, for in them ye think ye have eterwith
me in Paradise.” (Lk. 23:43) And Paul
said, “To die”-not “to live in the flesh-‘% gain: nal life; and they are they that testify of me,” ,
“to depart and be with Christ” is “very far bet- (John 5:30). Paul instructed Timothy, to: .I‘
ter” than “to abide in the flesh.” (Phil. f:21-24) “Study to show thyself approved unto God, a
Again he says, “knowing that, whilst we are at workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly
home in the body, we are absent from the Lord: dividins t%e word of truth.”\(2 Tim. 2:15). How
many people do that now? Very, very few. That
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is- just what has caused so many divisions in the call them to account on that “Terrible, Terrible
Church. People have quit studying the Bible, Day” not long hence; but “no time now to think
and have gone to listening to the teaching of about that, we’ve got to live.” Yes, and we’ve
men, and their “improvements” on the teaching got to die, too.
of the Bible-literature, lectures, Commentaries, “He that bath my commandments, and keepeth
etc.
them; he it is that loveth me and he that loveth
Jesus said: “God is a spirit; and they who wor- me, shall be loved of my Father, and I will love
ship him, must worship Him in spirit and in him and will manifest myself to him’’ (John 14:
truth” (John 4:24). Materialism has long since 21). But, you will say, “I love God and His Son,
taken the place of the spirit, because some, yea, and am doing all I can to please him.” Doing
many think there is nothing but spiritism in all YOU can in your own way? Where God says,
religion. Ther? is no excuse for going the other ‘