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Facts and Theories as to a Future State; The Scripture Doctrine Considered With Reference to Current Denials of Eternal Punishment
Frederick W. Grant
Paperback. General Books LLC 2009-12-19.
ISBN 9781150344954
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General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1889 Original Publisher: Loizeaux Brothers Subjects: Future life Annihilationism Restorationism Universalism Future punishment Eschatology Religion / Christian Theology / Eschatology Religion / Eschatology Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER II. MAN A TRIUNE BEING. We are now prepared for the question, What is this part of man which dwells in the body ? Or, What is the physical constitution of man as defined by the Scriptures ? The answer from 1 Thess. v. 23, is, that he is " spirit and soul and body ": " And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God that your whole spirit, and soul, and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ." The prayer is, manifestly, for the sane- tification of the whole man to God, and to emphasize it, as it were, it is, that man is divided into his three constituent parts, and the sanctification of the whole man is interpreted to be the preservation blameless before God of " spirit, sou) and body." Of course this is denied on the part of those who hold that the body is the whole man; but it is also denied by many others who are far enough from holding their views. It is a point, therefore, which must be seriously weighed, and as satisfactorily as possible decided, before we are entitled to take it as a settled thing. The objections of Annihilationists need not detain us very long, as few indeed seem to have looked at the text in question. The comment of Ellis and Read upon it is a remarkable specimen of their style of reasoning, as well as (apparently) of how little they are themselves convinced by it. " This caanot mean, " they say, " that man has two f/h
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