p. 123 | What Is Your Faith? by Moses White

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 1, 1873

What Is Your Faith?

By Moses White

THE so-called orthodox of the present day claim that Jesus represents the fleshly, and Christ the divine, part of the Son of God; and that while Jesus lay in the tomb, Christ, or the divine, part was absent from the body; but where, they do not tell. Thus, Mormons hold that Christ, while absent from the body, went to a pit in the center of the earth and preached to the spirits of those that left their bodies in the time of the flood. Does the word of God warrant this conclusion? Let us refer to the Scriptures and see what they say on this subject.

Examine Rom. 5: 6-10; 8: 11; 10: 7; Pet 3: 18; Rev. 1: 18; &c. The Scriptures are so full and so plain upon this subject, that none need be left in doubt upon it, if they will but read this as they would any other book, free their minds of prejudice and take the liberty to think for themselves. Would to God that Christians would lay aside predilection and examine for themselves. “Search the Scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life; and they are they which testify of me.” John 5: 39. MOSES WHITE.

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