Christian or Infidel—Which?
By Editor
A CORRESPONDENT of the Golden Gate has an article "Addressed to the Seventh-day Adventists," which is entitled, "Christian or infidel—Which?" The object of the article is to show that Seventh-day Adventists are infidels, because they do not accept the heathen doctrine that men are by nature immortal, and therefore gods. He starts out thus: "I first propose to let 'Buck's Theological Dictionary'—a standard author among Christians—settle the definitions of soul and spirit." All we have to say is that "Buck's Theological Dictionary" may settle the definition of soul and spirit to his satisfaction, but not to ours. We do not recognize any man in this world as authority on any doctrinal point. We once listened to a sermon designed to show that Adventists are infidels, and the way the speaker "proved" his point was by reading certain portions of his creed, and then showing that Adventists held different views. Our Spiritualist friend does the same thing. He quotes some Spiritualist definitions from "Buck's Theological Dictionary," and has no difficulty in showing that we do not accept them; hence he says we are infidels. That is, we are infidels because we do not believe as he does. Well, nobody could do us any better favor than to emphasize the fact, and keep it before the people continually, that we are diametrically opposed on every point to the theories advocated by Spiritualists.