1950 This Means Everlasting Life - A2Z.org

CHAPTER IX
WHEN LIFE
AND INCORRUPTION
WERE BROUGHT TO LIGHT
MEN who accept the religious traditions of
this world rest their hope of eternal life
and incorruption upon the teaching that
immortality dwells in the human soul . Whether
they realize it or not, they follow the lie told in
the paradise of Eden by the inventor of lies, Satan
the Devil . When that old Serpent said to
Adam's wife Eve, "Ye shall not surely die," and
induced her to break God's command not to eat
of the forbidden fruit, he did not lead her into the
path of life and incorruption . He steered her into
God's sentence to destruction .
2 Death was no thing unavoidable for the original
parents of the human family and hence unavoidable
for all of us their offspring. Religious
teachers who claim so quote Hebrews 9 :27,28 :
"And as it is reserved for men to die once for
all time, but after this a judgment, so also the
Christ was offered once for all time to bear the
sins of many, and the second time that he appears
it will be apart from sin and to those earnestly
looking for him for their salvation ." NW It is
unscriptural for anyone to think from this state-
What lie did Satan invent? By it where did he steer
Eve?
2 . Was death unavoidable for Adam? For what was he
on trial?
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