MR E. WHITE IN REPLY TO MR J. GIBSON.

Waikato Argus, Volume IV, Issue 294, 28 May 1898, Page 4

MR E. WHITE IN REPLY TO MR J. GIBSON.

—♦ TO THE EDITOR. Sir,—The letter which appeared in your paper recently, over the above signature, indicates a great lack of knowledge of the subject on which Mr Gibson has written. My letter, to which he professes to reply, waa on the subject of natural immortality ; the subjtcb of future immortality 1 did not question, and the major part of his lengthy epistle is devoted in attempting to prove that fact. There is a vass difference iu a promised gift and a present possession. Mr Gibson brings forward the old and worn out illustration of the metamorphosis of insect life, but he must be aware that the two cases, of man in death and infect change in life, are very different. The Bible tolls ua that " the dead kuow not anything," and that when a man is dead he ceases to exist as such (as man), and awaits the resaurection to obtain the future life ; while the insect is alive through all its changes until reaching the perfect state. Again Mr Gibson says, "The Bible is full of the subject of immortality." It would have been more to the point if, instead of dealing with so many ideas, he had given us chapter and verse when these expressions occur ; he may be labouring under the same delusion that many other people are, that the natural immortality of is to be found all over the Bible ; but I challenge him or anyone else to produce one instance where such an expression occurs. I admit that the Bible teaches and reveal God's cift to man, eternal life, as he himself must know, but it nowhere teaches that the soul is immortal, or that man has it in possession now. Perhaps Mr Gibson will favour us with some of his proof texts from the Bible in support of hia statements, although I think he has done as well as most others would have done in attempting to prove what does not exist. I would refer him to Cor. 1., chapter 15, verses 53 and 54. I am, etc., _, E. White. p.S.— I have been taken to task for writing on this subject in the secular press, but I should like to know if tne truth would iojure the press? or the press the truth ?—E.W.

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