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CHAPTER XXVIII
THE ABOLITION OF DEATH
THE original paradise of Eden was meant to
be a place, not of human death, but of everlasting
life in human perfection . Consequently
when Adam and Eve were sentenced to death
in punishment for their sinful rebellion, they were
driven out of paradise to die . When the paradise
of pleasure is renewed on earth by God's kingdom,
death which arose with sinful Adam will be forever
abolished from the earth . Death itself will
die in the "new earth". This was made absolutely
certain nineteen centuries ago at the manifestation
of God's Son in the flesh .
2 On this basis the apostle says gratefully :
"This was given us in connection with Christ Jesus
before times long lasting, but now it has been
made clearly evident through the manifestation
of our Savior, Christ Jesus, who has abolished
death but has shed light upon life and incorruption
through the good news ." 2 Timothy 1 :9, 10,
NW It was the death which mankind inherited
from Adam that Jesus died to counteract, and it
is this death traceable to Adam that he abolishes
forever from paradise . This earth which the paradise
of the new world is to cover with living
beauty now holds the graves of many who died
1 . When paradise is renewed on earth what will be
abolished? Why?
2 . a What is the death which Jesus abolishes?
b What must therefore be removed from the paradise
premises, and how?
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