CONTENTS

 

PREFACE

CHAPTER ONE 

THE INTERMEDIATE STATE

CHAPTER TWO 

THE TERM SOUL IS APPLIED TO THE ANIMAL CREATION IN GENERAL

CHAPTER THREE 

THE ORIGINAL TERMS NESME, RUAH, PSYCHE, AND PNEUMA, TRANSLATED 'SOUL' AND 'SPIRIT' MEAN BREATH OF LIFE

CHAPTER FOUR 

THE BIBLE TEACHES THAT MAN, THE SOUL, AS WELL AS THE BODY DIES

CHAPTER FIVE 

THE BIBLE TEACHES THAT MAN IS DEPENDENT UPON HIS RESURRECTION FOR ALL FUTURE EXISTENCE

CHAPTER SIX 

THE BIBLE TEACHES THAT THE SAINTS ARE TO WAIT FOR FUTURE GLORY UNTIL JESUS COMES TO BE GLORIFIED IN HIS KINGDOM

CHAPTER SEVEN

​BECAUSE IT IS WRITTEN THAT THE INHERITANCE OF THE SAINTS IS 'RESERVED IN HEAVEN'  IT IS SUPPOSED THAT BELIEVERS GO THERE AT DEATH TO GAIN IT

CHAPTER EIGHT 

THE SAINTS WILL NOT BE PRESENTED BEFORE THE PRESENCE OF GOD OR UNTO JESUS CHRIST UNTIL THE RESURRECTION FROM THE GRAVE

CHAPTER NINE 

THE APOSTOLIC EXHORTATIONS ARE ENFORCED, NOT BY THE CONSIDERATION OF ANY JUDGMENT AT DEATH, BUT BY THE COMING OF OUR LORD

CHAPTER TEN

THE APOSTLES JOYFULLY EXPECTED TO MEET THEIR BRETHREN, NOT IN THE INTERMEDIATE STATE, BUT AT THE COMING OF CHRIST

CHAPTER ELEVEN

MANY LONG SINCE DEAD, WILL NOT KNOW THEIR DOOM UNTIL CHRIST COMES

CHAPTER TWELVE 

OBJECTIONS CONSIDERED

 

NOTE

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CHAPTER TWO

THE TERM SOUL IS APPLIED TO THE ANIMAL CREATION IN GENERAL​
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ND God said let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, (Heb.) SOUL. See also, ver. 30. (Heb.) Lev. 11; 46, (Heb.) &c. We read of the spirit of the beast  Ec 3:21. We know that other animals possess what we term mental faculties; knowledge, memory, and affection. “The ox knoweth his owner.” Does the memory of the horse, the affection of the dog, or the sagacity of the beaver, prove the possession of spiritual subsistence’s by these animals, which can act independently of their material organizations? It may be said that they cannot reason. Suppose that we can demonstrate this; can we demonstrate that the faculties which they do possess can be more rationally predicated on mere animated material organization than reason itself? If the Creator has imparted to their material organizations, knowledge, memory, with affections, without any distinct spiritual subsistence; on what principle can we affirm that he cannot impart to the superior material organization of man these faculties and reason also? Where is the philosopher that can prove this? It is easy, indeed, to affirm that “matter itself is essentially unintelligent, and is utterly incapable of thought.” Mr. Good in his Book of Nature, p. 367, well remarks, that “this is to speak with more confidence than we are warranted; and unbecomingly to limit the power of the Creator.” The question is not what is matter in its primeval state, but what can the Almighty make of it? The answer is, that of “stones he can raise up children unto Abraham,” 

[Editor, And if He willed, He could make stones cry out, “And he answered and said unto them, I tell you that, if these should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out.” ( Lk 19:40.)]

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