STRANGE TEACHING by W. S. Foote

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 9, 1869

STRANGE TEACHING.

By W. S. Foote

A SHORT time since, I sent Bro. Canright's tract entitled, "The End of the Wicked," to an eastern friend, and a Congregational preacher got hold of it, reviewed it, and filled out three sheets of foolscap with a reply. He says, "The soul is an emanation of the Deity, a spark struck off from the great source of spiritual existence. It was created a pure, uncompounded substance, a simple, thinking, immaterial, and immortal substance."

Query: What is an immaterial substance, and if created, as the writer says, who created it?

He says further: "The Scriptures, when rightly interpreted, nowhere assert that God will exert his power to annihilate the soul. Being an emanation from himself, an uncompounded substance like his own spiritual nature, its existence must continue commensurate with his own."

If such is the case, or the "immortal soul" is "a spark struck off from the great source of spiritual existence," then the wicked when suffering eternally in the lake of fire, which the writer teaches, will not suffer alone, but a part of the "Deity" will be there to suffer with them!

W. S. FOOTE.

Pendleton, O.