For David says
concerning Him;
‘I foresaw the LORD
always before my face,
for He is at my right
hand,
that I may not be
shaken.
Therefore my heart
rejoiced,
and my tongue was
glad;
moreover my flesh
also will rest in hope.
For You will not
leave my soul in Hades,
nor will You allow
Your Holy One to see corruption.
You have made known
to me the ways of life;
You will make me full
of joy in Your presence.”
Acts 2:25–28; cf.
Psalm 16:8–11
Luke
in this recording of what David spoke concerning life, the soul, and what he
could expect for himself, and prophesied concerning the Messiah, Jesus Christ
would not be left in the grave, Hades, as is the word in this Scripture; not
Gehenna, a place of no return for the dead for Hades will be thrown in the Lake
of Fire, a representation in words to denote Gehenna: :The sea gave up the
dad who were in it, and Death and Hades delivered up the dead who were in them,
and they were judged, each one according to his works. Then Death and Hades
were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. And anyone not found
written in the Book of Life was cast into the lake of fire” (Revelation
29:13–15. This should shake the timbers of anyone who reads these words; We
all are to be judged, not on what we say, rather on what we do, not salvation
do to works, rather, how you exercised your faith in God. Do you believe in His
Son as Savior, or are you just a happy soul who does not care about the future.
You have no future, you have no hope. You
are the most miserable person who strives to find some kind of happiness in
this life as there is for you no other life. For those of us who believe on the
Lord Jesus Christ as Savior, that God, the Triune God, the Creator, the
Maintainer of life, the Controller of all things that occur so that His purpose
will be accomplished: are you following His commands, are you placing God, His
Son Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit
as the priority of your life? Are you exercising the love of God by picking up
your cross and following Him, that is this simply: Which of the Ten
Commandments are you ignoring? The soul will be rescued from Hades, your life,
as a child of God will live eternally. Scripture assures us that the soul is
not divisible as the Traducianists teach, or has lived preexistent to the creation
of man, Adam. The Doctrine of Creationism is without doubt as any study of the
Scriptures will testify is most consistent with the nature of the soul.
Christians admit that the soul is immaterial and spiritual. Is this too hard
for you to understand; that there can be a life which is not material, that is
spiritual? If you cannot believe in this then you cannot believe in God being
spiritual, without form, without a body and is everywhere, One who is without
beginning or end. If you don’t believe in a Spiritual God, then you are like
the Gnostics that believed that while there is a higher God all other gods,
including Satan, Jesus Christ are just emanations from this higher source, or
as do Mormons, believe that God is anthropomorphic, a man, that the souls are
anterior to their being placed into created man; none of which is to be found
in Scripture. This is serious, it is a serious difficulty that those who
believe in Traducianism, that the soul is divisible as they advocate, yet does
not have the support of Scripture, that many of the Traducianists try to avoid
this fact by saying that their theory does not support any such separation of
the soul. This denial is of no avail for they still maintain that the same
numerical essence which constituted the soul of Adam constitutes our souls.
Now, if this be so then we have a problem that needs addressing for if this is
true then humanity is in at leas a general sense only general essence making
man only a mode of existence, or that which was given to Adam is distributed to
his posterity dividing the soul and his posterity receives only partially the
soul of Adam as the soul of Adam is divided among all his posterity. This is
separation of the soul to the multitudes of Adam’s descendants. If there is
general essence among men and this is a divided among men then there is
derivation of essence which implies a separation or division of essence. This
is to say that numerically the soul, the essence of man which has the identity
of Adam in each man then Traducianism would be true that the soul is passed
from Adam into his posterity, and then this posterity would instill into their
posterity the soul, and the essence of Adam, all this be propagation or
generation. This Scripture does not teach. We then look at another argument in
favor of creation and against Traducianism; This is to be derived from
Scripture as to the Person of Jesus Christ. This will be continued next week
the Lord willing to give us aid for our understanding of the soul which will
then lead us back to the doctrine of Original Sin.
The Sabbath
is two days away: are you preparing this to be as God commanded; a day of rest,
a day for the Lord? I hope so; Saturday is the final day to prepare for the
needs of the Sabbath.
And the Spirit and the bride say,
“Come!” And
let him who
hears say, “Come!” And let him
who thirsts
come. Whoever
desires, let him take the water
of life
freely.
Revelation 22:17
May the Grace of God Be With You
Richard L. Crumb
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