Agreed Not Together by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jul 30, 1912

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 39, No. 29.

"Agreed Not Together"

By Editor

From Two Notes in the Same Religious Paper

"THE Protestant Magazine says, 'Those who depart this life enter into a state of unconscious rest, represented in the Scriptures as a sleep, where they remain until the resurrection.' This theory is incorrect. Man's soul dwells in his body during his life here. And he is thus absent from the Lord, whose dwelling-place is heaven. When man dies his soul leaves the body and is at once received into the presence of the Lord."

"Mr. Stearns affirms that man does not have a body. He says it is a 'false sense' which leads man to believe that he has a body. We reply that God informs us in His account of creation that He gave man a body, and that He formed man's body before He gave him any sense. That it was by means of man's body that he received his sense. Now if man hasn't any body, he hasn't any sense. The belief of the Christian Scientist comes near being nonsense."

Now if man hasn't any body after death, has he any sense? How does the Christian Scientist differ from the editor? If a man can have sense without a body after death, why not in this life? And if a man needs a body to have sense here, why does he not need it after death? Why not believe the Bible that in the day "his breath goeth forth" "his thoughts perish"?