An Awful Theory | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · May 29, 1901

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 27, No. 22.

An Awful Theory.

A paper, earnest in tone, comes to us with the following in one of its leading articles:—

“No Bible doctrine is clearer than the terrible one that there is a place where lost spirits will be tormented FOREVER. . . . Sin is not located in the body, but in the immortal part—the spirit, and a rebellious sinner will be just as wicked after he has left his body as before.”

This article is preceded by a poem containing the following:—

“Infinite years in torments shall I spend, And never, never, never have an end? Ah! must I live in torturing despair As many years as atoms in the air?”

And thus it goes on piling up countless eons by grains of sand, leaves of forests, blades of grass, stars in heaven, and all these multiplied into themselves, and that product by myriads more, and then,—

“I must in that fierce grief in misery lie, And madly writhe to all eternity.”

What a monster this makes of God. It is first declared that God has made untried man immortal, incapable of death—which He hasn’t—and then concluded that God must torture the fixedly wicked character without cessation to all eternity. “Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.” If you wish to know, reader, what the Lord means by the expression “tormented,” secure and read, “Tormented Forever and Ever,” Bible Students’ Library, No. 111. Price 1 cent. If but one copy is ordered, 2 cents should be sent. Address, Pacific Press, Oakland, Cal.