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our opponents in a few words, when theymisunderstand our presentations of morethan three thousand pages. If they cannotunderstand a detailed account, we have nohope of making a brief one satisfactory to them. However,we give here a synopsis:--I. We affirm the humanity of Jesus and the deity ofChrist.II. We acknowledge that the personality of the HolySpirit is the Father and the Son; that the Holy Spiritproceeds from both, and in turn from all who are begottenby it.III. We affirm the resurrection of Christ--that Hewas put to death in the flesh, but quickened in the Spirit.We deny that He was raised in the flesh, and challengeany statement to that effect as being unscriptural.IV. We affirm, with the Scriptures, that God alonepossessed immortality, "dwelling in the light which noman can approach unto." We affirm that this Divinequality has already been granted to the Lord Jesus and isto be the portion of the elect Bride, the "Body of Christ."As for mankind, we affirm the Divine provision for theseR4956 : page 29and for angels to be everlasting life for the obedient.This, by many, is mistermed immortality. We follow theScriptures strictly.V. We hold that the entire race lost life with FatherAdam, as a result of his failure in Eden; and that Christdied to secure a second chance for Adam and an individualchance for all of his race, who lost their first chance inAdam when he sinned. "As all in Adam die, even so allin Christ shall be made alive." (I Cor. 15:21,22.) Afew of us, comparatively, having eyes of faith and earsof understanding, have had this second chance in thepresent life. Adam and the great mass of his posteritymust get their second chance after being awakened fromthe tomb. But NOBODY IS TO GET A THIRD CHANCE!VI. We believe that the soul was condemned to death."The soul that sinneth it shall die." We believe that thisdeath would have been eternal, everlasting destruction,had it not been for God's mercy in and through ourLord's redemptive work. By reason of His death oursouls do not die in this full sense of the word, but areScripturally said to "fall asleep," "asleep in Jesus." Theawakening will be in the resurrection morning; and theinterim will be a period of unconsciousness, beautifullysymbolized by a restful sleep.VII. We believe in the "hell" of the Bible, sheol.This, the only word used for hell for four thousand years,is translated more than one-half the time grave in ourCommon Version, and should always be thus translated."Hades," in the New Testament, is its equivalent. "Gehennafire," of the New Testament, is a symbolical picturedeclared to signify the Second Death.

VIII. We believe that God is able to destroy "bothsoul and body" in Gehenna--the Second Death. We considerit much more sane to believe thus, as it is moreScriptural, than to believe that in creating man God dida work which He could not undo; much more reasonablealso than to believe He prefers to have the incorrigiblesuffer eternally, when their sufferings could do neitherthemselves nor others any good.IX. We believe that, like the Father and the holyangels, our Lord is a spirit being. We are convincedthat "flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God."We do not believe that our Lord has a flesh and bloodbody, a "little lower than the angels," and has thus beenout of harmony with His heavenly environment fornearly two thousand years. We believe the Apostle'sstatement, "Now the Lord is that Spirit." This is theJesus who will "so come, in like manner," quietly andunknown to the world, as He went away. We do notaffirm, dogmatically, that He came in 1874, but we saythat to us it is the evident teaching of the Scriptures.Our Lord warned us not to expect Him in the flesh; thatmen might say "Lo, here" or "Lo, there." The Harvestwork in the universal Church Nominal, the Laodiceanperiod of the Church, well corroborates our expectationsof what His work will be, as outlined in His parables, etc.R4956 : page 29===================="BORN KING OF THE JEWS"--MATTHEW 2:1-12.--FEBRUARY 4.--"Look unto Me and be ye saved, all ye ends of the earth;for I am God and there is none else."--Isaiah 45:22.TODAY'S STUDY relates to the Wise Menof the East and their seeing of a wonderfulstar which, as astrologers, they recognizedto import a great event--the birth of a greatKing. At the time Palestine was a provinceof the Roman Empire, and its King,Herod, was not a Jew of the House ofJacob, but a representative of the house ofEsau. Herod sought to perpetuate his dynasty,and hence the announcement of theshepherds that a great King of the Jews had just beenborn suggested the overthrow of the Herodian dynastyand the establishment on Israel's throne of a king in theline of David and Solomon.Herod's disquietude is easily understood, but the factthat the people of Jerusalem in general should be disturbedby the annunciation of a king of their own awakensthought. Evidently they were in a very self-satisfied condition;under the Romans they were experiencing great

VIII. We believe that God is able to destroy "bothsoul and body" in Gehenna--the Second Death. We considerit much more sane to believe thus, as it is moreScriptural, than to believe that in creating man God dida work which He could not undo; much more reasonablealso than to believe He prefers to have the incorrigiblesuffer eternally, when their sufferings could do neitherthemselves nor others any good.IX. We believe that, like the Father and the holyangels, our Lord is a spirit being. We are convincedthat "flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God."We do not believe that our Lord has a flesh and bloodbody, a "little lower than the angels," and has thus beenout of harmony with His heavenly environment fornearly two thousand years. We believe the Apostle'sstatement, "Now the Lord is that Spirit." This is theJesus who will "so come, in like manner," quietly andunknown to the world, as He went away. We do notaffirm, dogmatically, that He came in 1874, but we saythat to us it is the evident teaching of the Scriptures.Our Lord warned us not to expect Him in the flesh; thatmen might say "Lo, here" or "Lo, there." The Harvestwork in the universal Church Nominal, the Laodiceanperiod of the Church, well corroborates our expectationsof what His work will be, as outlined in His parables, etc.R4956 : page 29===================="BORN KING OF THE JEWS"--MATTHEW 2:1-12.--FEBRUARY 4.--"Look unto Me and be ye saved, all ye ends of the earth;for I am God and there is none else."--Isaiah 45:22.TODAY'S STUDY relates to the Wise Menof the East and their seeing of a wonderfulstar which, as astrologers, they recognizedto import a great event--the birth of a greatKing. At the time Palestine was a provinceof the Roman Empire, and its King,Herod, was not a Jew of the House ofJacob, but a representative of the house ofEsau. Herod sought to perpetuate his dynasty,and hence the announcement of theshepherds that a great King of the Jews had just beenborn suggested the overthrow of the Herodian dynastyand the establishment on Israel's throne of a king in theline of David and Solomon.Herod's disquietude is easily understood, but the factthat the people of Jerusalem in general should be disturbedby the annunciation of a king of their own awakensthought. Evidently they were in a very self-satisfied condition;under the Romans they were experiencing great

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