Our day in the light of prophecy and providence . sm: — It demonstrates, as completely as the fact can be demonstrated,that the so-called dead are still alive.—On Miracles and Modern Spir-itualism {London, 1875), p. 212, First Declaration of the Doctrine In the very first book of the Bible is a similar claim: Yeshall not surely die. Gen. 3:4. But this declaration, while recorded in the Scriptures, isnot the word of God. The Lord had declared to man thatdisobedience would bring death. But Satan, as the tempterin Eden, caused the woman to doubt the word of God: The 265 266 Our Day in the Light o
Our day in the light of prophecy and providence . sm: — It demonstrates, as completely as the fact can be demonstrated,that the so-called dead are still alive.—On Miracles and Modern Spir-itualism {London, 1875), p. 212, First Declaration of the Doctrine In the very first book of the Bible is a similar claim: Yeshall not surely die. Gen. 3:4. But this declaration, while recorded in the Scriptures, isnot the word of God. The Lord had declared to man thatdisobedience would bring death. But Satan, as the tempterin Eden, caused the woman to doubt the word of God: The 265 266 Our Day in the Light of Prophecy serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die. Andthe woman beHeved the tempter rather than God, and sosinned against the Creator. Having tempted man to disobedience, so bringing deathinto the world, what more natural, in the course of deception,than to endeavor to persuade the human family that, afterall, there is no death; that what appears so is only an intro-duction to fuller life and activity? *Ye shall not surely PHARAOHS SORCERERS COUNTER-FEITING THE WORK OF GOD Now the magicians of Egypt, they alsodid in like manner with their enchant-ments. Ex. 7:11. As mankind departed from right and lost the knowledgeof God, dead heroes were deified as gods, and much of thepagan worship consisted in sacrifices to the spirits of the dead,supposed to be living still and concerned with affairs in theland of the living. When Israel fell away from God andjoined the Moabites in the worship of Baal-peor, the recordsays of the nature of the service: They joined themselves also unto Baal-peor, and atethe sacrifices of the dead. Yea, they sacrificed their sonsand their daughters unto devils. Ps. 106:28, 37. Spiritualism: Ancient and Modern 267 Instead of dealing with the spirits of the dead, the idol-atrous worshipers were really putting themselves in directtouch with the agencies of Satan, the fallen angels. Divine Warnings This explains the severity of the divine
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