IMMORTALITY, AND A SOUL ACCORDING TO THE BIBLE.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3840, 20 April 1881, Page 2

IMMORTALITY, AND A SOUL ACCORDING TO THE BIBLE.

(To the Editor of tbe Evening Star.) [Letter continued.]

Sib,—lt is the upholders of error that require elaborate dessertations and ponderous volumes to propound their opinions and theories while the shelves of all the great libraries of the world literally groan with tome upon tome of the unmitigated nonsense and illogical arguments of dogmatic theologists. An example of this folly has lately appeared in the Auckland Free Press. A writer signing himself " Alethes " has already given his readers some thirty columns of closely printed matter, to prove what ? Why, a nonentity, viz., that the soul lives after death without any resurrection. Oh, what a weary infliction it is to wade through such a mass of nonsense so utterly opposed to Bible teaching. Ist." The writer knows not the primary meaning of a soul, as given in the Bible, which is simply a living, breathing creature. 2nd. He does not see that all souls according to the Bible die the death brought upon themselves through disobedience. 3rd. He does not see that death is death, not life. In the light of God's word, .the whole article is not worth the paper it was written upon. It is confusion upon confusion right through, and only calculated to puzzle and confuse all who read it, except those who are well up in pure Bible teachiug upon this momentous subject. What has the sincere and earnest Christian of these days to do with whole heaps of traditionary lore. The time is now too short ere the dispensation closes, and the Lord returns, for hi m to be taken up with the,study of such masses of nousehse'. Would such an one be wise he will study his Bible, make that his only council book, drinking ia its sublime, grand, and glorious truths as he would drink in the pure and invigorating waters of a delicious fountain. Oh, Christian, ignore all tradition except the tradition of i prophets and apostles with Christ Jesus' as their foundation stone, and their top stone of the magnificent- building of God. In the Bible every stone of that building is easily discerned by the spiritualniiuded earnest Christian, for the building' of God is simplicity itself, as there

delineated, while outside tradition only confuses and confounds. Christ said on one occasion ■'• Blessed is he who hears the word of God and keeps it," and in his special revelation of what is now soon to be manifest amongst the people of the earth, "Blessed is he that readeth and they that hear the words of this prediction and keep the things which are written thereia." Let the sincere, earnest believer then confine himself to God's Book, and go no further, then will he be mighty in the scriptures of truth and will be able to confound all the apostate tradition mongers he comei across. Now, I hold that whoever would fully understand the truth concerning immortality, must first learn.,wha(j ,is a soul according to the Bible, and in my next I will,-; with your permission, give an extract from Enoch upon that subject, written for that publication nearly six years ago.—l am, &c, .-.« W. Wood.